Ed Felten ✓

@EdFelten · Princeton · joined 04 May 2008

Co-founder and Chief Scientist @Offchain. Professor of Comp Sci & Public Affairs Emeritus @Princeton. Prev: Deputy US CTO at White House. Personal account.

27 165Followers

588Following

1 637Posts total

44.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ed Felten ✓@EdFelten20 Aug

Having taught @smehmood when he was younger, I can attest that he is not a "random engineer." Not surprised to see him building something big. 2.6K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ed Felten ✓@EdFelten18 Aug

never underestimate 2 random datadog engineers 🙂 33K views · 134 likes · 8 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Ed Felten ✓@EdFelten29 Jul

Does money buy success in MLB? 2026 statistics suggest that payroll explains only 3% of the variance in teams' winning percentage. https://t.co/OwwKGX5MqN

1.3K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ed Felten ✓@EdFelten7 Jul

The best onchain products will hide complexity from users without giving up control for developers. That is the promise of programmable accounts. ZeroDev Wallet brings embedded wallet UX and smart account infrastructure into one platform. Proud to help bring this next phase of 1.9K views · 14 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ed Felten ✓@EdFelten1 Jul

Very happy to see Robinhood Chain Mainnet now live. One of the biggest strengths of @Arbitrum’s infrastructure is that it lets enterprises build whatever best fits their business. Robinhood's journey illustrates that well: launch tokenized stocks on Arbitrum One, validate with 4.3K views · 64 likes · 12 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Ed Felten ✓@EdFelten18 May

Sad to hear of the passing of Peter Neumann, a respected and beloved mentor to me and many other infosec researchers. Among other things, Peter helped open my eyes early to the role of tech in public policy. We need more like him. The Times has a good obit: 1.2K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views2 574this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %9.48%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.68%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 574	924	2.79×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	9.48%	3.62%	2.62×
Engagement rate	0.68%	1.52%	0.45×

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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

1.2K18 May

4.3K1 Jul

1.9K7 Jul

1.3K29 Jul

33K18 Aug

2.6K20 Aug

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.29%18 May

1.96%1 Jul

1.02%7 Jul

0.68%29 Jul

0.45%18 Aug

0.85%20 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes77.7%251 in total

Reposts7.7%25 in total

Replies6.8%22 in total

Bookmarks7.7%25 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.