David ImeI ✓
@Davidimel · Somewhere · joined 26 Feb 2012
Guy who makes stuff sometimes Co-Host @WVFRM Temp Vergecast Host @verge Ex-Systems Engineer @Intel https://t.co/pU1p85jM8H
78 743Followers
506Following
23 825Posts total
532.6KViews on collected posts
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@Davidimel the stupidest feature of the night!
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Apple’s “Live Rewind” feature will let you rewind 15 seconds into what was just said around you https://t.co/ylHWEpp0wl
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Like @JoannaStern mentioned in our Vergecast episode last week, iMessage information search/indexing is one of the best uses of Siri AI.
Really hope other messaging apps get updated for indexing after iOS 27 officially launches, because I really need the “what was their address
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It is genuinely kind of surprising that we still don’t know the official name for the iPhone Fold/Duo/Folio/Ultra.
I very much enjoy surprise so I’m stoked for Wednesday.
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Damn literally predicted by @WVFRM when Allbird pivoted https://t.co/jqtM31Zk3q
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It’s Waveformin time https://t.co/PQbr4OWFYk
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The primary innovation of smartphone camera sensors from 2015(ish) forward is HDR bracketing - taking a lot of very under-exposed samples and stacking the pixels to get a much better signal-to-noise ratio.
Photos you see with old smartphones that look good are generally taken in
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Lot of people asking for sources. Here's my research folder with a lot of the stuff I referenced. https://t.co/jCuJsvPQqg
Separate from that are the 10+ interviews, which I'll be uploading on my extras channel separately soon.
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Now also available in written form, if you prefer reading things: https://t.co/96ZK66kbbX https://t.co/ntha1uIpsX
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@davidimel found more sparkles! https://t.co/vS5Rcuh3iN
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And thanks a million to @KeithBroni , @jenniferdaniel , and @visual_linguist for being brilliant interviewees for this project! https://t.co/aJUCYDkbhF
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In this video I had the opportunity to interview the man who invented emoji, @sigekun while I was in Japan. We had an absolutely wonderful conversation and I've uploaded the full uncut interview here:
https://t.co/JaDm9J0Lh0 https://t.co/9v6QDUryg6
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New 🎥 from me:
Lately, I’ve noticed companies smashing ✨ onto every new feature they claim is “AI-powered”.
I set out to find out why this is happening, and wound up in Japan 🇯🇵
How AI Stole the ✨ Sparkles Emoji ✨
Enjoy: https://t.co/ufmpa3YKV0 https://t.co/qCYyrPchFN
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Against accounts of the same size
10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views18 556this account928median for 10K–100K
Reach, %23.57%this account3.52%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.24%this account1.95%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 18 556 | 928 | 20.0× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 23.57% | 3.52% | 6.69× |
| Engagement rate | 1.24% | 1.95% | 0.64× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
6.6K2 May
1.2K
5K5 May
4.4K7 May
150.8K24 Aug
10.6K26 Aug
44.9K2 Sep
26.5K3 Sep
38.3K4 Sep
9.3K7 Sep
28.8K9 Sep
689
426
315
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.12%2 May
0.89%
0.76%5 May
1.17%7 May
1.21%24 Aug
8.17%26 Aug
0.18%2 Sep
4.23%3 Sep
1.27%4 Sep
2.32%7 Sep
0.37%9 Sep
1.45%
0.23%
0.00%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.95%.
What the audience does
Likes87.2%5 700 in total
Reposts1.6%105 in total
Replies2.5%166 in total
Quotes0.4%28 in total
Bookmarks8.3%541 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
7 Sep
Daily snapshots since 07 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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