Christopher Bloomstran ✓

@ChrisBloomstran · St Louis, MO · joined 17 Aug 2018

Nothing here is advice. Drop the phone and slowly back away from the Twitter. Read a 10-K. It’s a profession, not a business.

129 049Followers

1 195Following

4 397Posts total

52.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Christopher Bloomstran ✓@ChrisBloomstran25 Aug

Rest in peace to THE national treasure.💔 10.8K views · 76 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Christopher Bloomstran ✓@ChrisBloomstran20 Aug

S&P and MSCI said to be in discussions about adding a new “Promotional Hype” industry to the Global Industry Classification System. The move will dramatically reduce record concentrations in the Information Technology and Communications Services sectors. 11.4K views · 67 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Christopher Bloomstran ✓@ChrisBloomstran19 Aug

The Treasury adopted Fedspeak. Saying, “…consistent strong sponsorship from market participants, as evidenced by the significant volume of high-quality offers Treasury routinely receives” implies there is ample market liquidity for long-dated debt. It’s exactly the opposite. 1/ h

13.6K views · 43 likes · 3 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Christopher Bloomstran ✓@ChrisBloomstran18 Aug

I had to look twice. For a minute there I thought this was @saylor pumping Bitcoin again. 16.5K views · 43 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Christopher Bloomstran ✓@ChrisBloomstran11 Aug 2019

Thanks to Patrick for prompting me to Twitter. Paraphrasing the immemorial words of Mr. Buffett, I suppose I’m now in the house...We’ll see if I do this more than 6 times in 6 years! 0 views · 715 likes · 74 reposts · 49 replies Open on X →

Christopher Bloomstran ✓@ChrisBloomstran6 Aug 2019

My conversation with Chris Bloomstran, CIO of Semper Augustus on how to define quality in business - the capacity for re-investment - controlling distribution - making permanent sacrifices - the intricacies of Berkshire - proxy statements + incentives https://t.co/fsKD4vsnAO h

0 views · 453 likes · 82 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views12 517this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %9.70%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.51%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	12 517	5 983	2.09×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	9.70%	1.49%	6.51×
Engagement rate	0.51%	0.93%	0.55×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

16.5K18 Aug

13.6K19 Aug

11.4K20 Aug

10.8K25 Aug

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.28%18 Aug

0.38%19 Aug

0.63%20 Aug

0.74%25 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes79.8%229 in total

Reposts2.4%7 in total

Replies4.9%14 in total

Quotes0.3%1 in total

Bookmarks12.5%36 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.