Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ✓
@MIT · Cambridge, MA · joined 16 Jul 2008
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a world leader in research and education. Related accounts: @MITevents @MITstudents @MIT_alumni
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Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award https://t.co/1zdE7uITyN
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A new study from MIT researchers could help to enable next-generation lidar sensors that are compact, durable, and have no moving parts. The key advance is a novel design for a silicon-photonics chip, which is a semiconductor device that manipulates light rather than electricity.
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Autumnal equinox will arrive today at 8:05 pm EDT. 🍁🍃 🍂 https://t.co/jAHaDhy8iQ
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To make qubits more reliable, researchers developed a new design that includes two separate but connected components: one which stores data and one which reaches out like an arm to interact with every other part of the quantum circuit. https://t.co/JNrvsuMMom
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MIT anthropologist Chris Walley developed a project for people in Southeast Chicago to tell their histories — an approach any community can adopt. https://t.co/ihxqFzkehK
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An MIT team has demonstrated a more efficient way to extract pure hydrogen gas from hydrogen carrier molecules. https://t.co/0k3gbRIaDe
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MIT Spinout Atlas Building Composites is turning plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure. https://t.co/eZYWVX6cPk
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In remembrance of the September 11 attacks, 25 years later. https://t.co/jC56RwjXci
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A burst of “pink noise” may lead to more restorative sleep. https://t.co/5szXPOaU5A
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Self-driving cars sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or passenger may need to react rapidly to prevent a collision.
To help humans better anticipate a
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Each year, farmers around the world spend $80 billion on pesticides for their crops. Now, Robigo is equipping naturally occurring microbes with more potent pest-fighting capabilities. https://t.co/vbQOAfyDFM
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In a new Boston Globe Opinion essay, MIT President Emeritus L. Rafael Reif calls for a simple, globally understood “moral floor” for AI: principles that keep people in ultimate control and prohibit deception, harm, exploitation, and evasion of human oversight.
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@MIT Our brain works faster than light also, but most people don't realise it. To concentrate our brain doing meditation sometime in low light peaceful area or room daily is the simplest and easiest formula.
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@MIT Skill in right direction can make possible to impossible.
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@MIT An hybrid 'electric' airplane, huh?
Who feels safe flying in it? - raise your hand, please...
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A former MIT class project is becoming an $850 million effort to manufacture a new kind of aircraft in Ohio. https://t.co/odgedKUxhZ
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@MIT So if you ever look on the Weather Channel if clouds pass not a big deal but kind of a big deal because I want to get my pool and be sweating like it was not that long ago with my work but everything saying winter winter which is not a big deal but a deal
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To keep track of what’s going on in front of it, the brain relies not only on what it sees, but also a comparison with what it just saw. A new study pinpoints the circuit that provides that service. https://t.co/4IymG4CgEV
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Dubbed “bifur-circuits,” these interactive building blocks could be used to develop reconfigurable robotic grippers or customized assistive devices. https://t.co/7XNU6WTMXr
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@MIT Their work:
The paper discusses the importance of economic institutions as a fundamental cause of differences in economic growth and prosperity across countries. It argues that differences in economic institutions, rather than geography or culture, are the primary driver of
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@MIT congrats Prof Simon Johnson https://t.co/rhlbGzpj28
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MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson share Nobel Prize in economics: Along with James Robinson, the professors are honored for work on the relationship between economic growth and political institutions. https://t.co/yv6KCc0bK8 https://t.co/qrZsXJLWgC
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Against accounts of the same size
19 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views18 750this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %1.36%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.82%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 18 750 | 14 648 | 1.28× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.36% | 0.74% | 1.84× |
| Engagement rate | 0.82% | 0.70% | 1.18× |
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
641 Sep
132 Sep
20.6K
31.1K3 Sep
14.5K8 Sep
28.5K11 Sep
41.5K12 Sep
17K15 Sep
21K17 Sep
18.8K18 Sep
16.1K21 Sep
19.8K22 Sep
25.5K
13.7K23 Sep
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
1.56%1 Sep
7.69%2 Sep
1.03%
0.60%3 Sep
0.82%8 Sep
1.05%11 Sep
1.72%12 Sep
0.58%15 Sep
0.74%17 Sep
0.40%18 Sep
1.17%21 Sep
1.16%22 Sep
2.12%
0.60%23 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes76.3%5 819 in total
Reposts12.1%923 in total
Replies2.9%223 in total
Quotes0.8%58 in total
Bookmarks7.9%604 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.
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