Lauren Goode ✓

@LaurenGoode · San Francisco · joined 04 Mar 2009

Senior Correspondent @WIRED. DMs open. Send me tips on what's happening in Silicon Valley and beyond on Signal @ ChaoticGoode.12 (no PR pitches there)

90 418Followers

2 864Following

13 553Posts total

34.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Lauren Goode ✓@LaurenGoode14 Sep

This definitely feels...staged https://t.co/6ji7rhXwan https://t.co/GJHV6JxOTr 12.5K views · 56 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Lauren Goode ✓@LaurenGoode11 Sep

Frank is a legend in the valley. I may still call him and bug him purely out of habit. https://t.co/Mki2PqyJQz 3.5K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lauren Goode ✓@LaurenGoode11 Sep

New, in my (subscriber only) Backchannel newsletter this morning: Timnit Gebru on AI extinction narratives, John Borthwick on his very early Hugging Face investment, and more https://t.co/edAqZc4ULf https://t.co/NIm33iLYoi

12.1K views · 22 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lauren Goode ✓@LaurenGoode10 Sep

I have about 200 AI Infra Summit emails to respond to before next week. I am not going to get to all of them. I'm sorry 🫣 Email has gotten out of hand. I'll just put out there that I'm only interested in talking to people who can offer new or exclusive information. Pls reach out 3K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Lauren Goode ✓@LaurenGoode10 Sep

👀 https://t.co/d4CJOswSF4 3.1K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views3 510this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.88%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.39%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 510	924	3.80×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.88%	3.62%	1.07×
Engagement rate	0.39%	1.52%	0.26×

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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

3.1K10 Sep

12.1K11 Sep

3.5K

12.5K14 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.39%10 Sep

0.57%

0.21%11 Sep

0.28%

0.49%14 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes79.3%115 in total

Reposts4.8%7 in total

Replies2.8%4 in total

Quotes0.7%1 in total

Bookmarks12.4%18 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.