Techmeme ✓

@Techmeme · United States · joined 07 Mar 2007

Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web. This account shares top-level Techmeme headlines. Visit our site for full context.

425 247Followers

1 000Following

210 321Posts total

524.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 798this account4 294median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.89%this account1.80%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.22%this account1.48%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 798	4 294	0.88×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.89%	1.80%	0.50×
Engagement rate	0.22%	1.48%	0.15×

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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

164.7K9 Apr

305.4K20 Apr

33.6K

1.5K

1.4K

870

1.9K

363

5.9K5 Sep

4.2K

3.4K

1.4K

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.04%9 Apr

0.11%20 Apr

1.35%

0.33%

0.58%

0.80%

0.42%

0.00%

0.26%5 Sep

0.19%

0.09%

0.36%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.48%.

What the audience does

Likes68.6%707 in total

Reposts5.2%54 in total

Replies10.3%106 in total

Quotes2.8%29 in total

Bookmarks13.1%135 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.

Latest posts

Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (@jeaneaglesham / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!) 1.4K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans (@miranda_murray / Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!) 3.4K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (@theroberthart / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!) 4.2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles (@kinlinglo / Rest of World) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!) 5.9K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 05 Sep 2026 @Techmeme @laurahazardowen I have practically zero engagement anyway, so I’m not too concerned about posting tweets with links 363 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 20 Apr 2026 @Techmeme This needs more thought from you folks. There is no point in maintaining your X account if you are just going to summarize other people’s posts in a. sentence or two and then say visit techmeme for more. Shouldn’t you be encouraging readers to visit the site with the 1.9K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 20 Apr 2026 @Techmeme Pls don’t do that. I agree with and can understand why you are doing it. But there’s some of us who still value links. Pls add links as a reply. 870 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 20 Apr 2026 @Techmeme @laurahazardowen It might be because you post lazy shit like this that links to some terribly formatted intermediary page that requires an additional click from the user before they even see the webpage you want them to. You are confusing your own incompetence with mal 1.4K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 20 Apr 2026 @Techmeme @laurahazardowen Where is the analysis here? I don’t see any attempt to isolate the effect of link inclusion from post quality 1.5K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 20 Apr 2026 @Techmeme The issue with the cited study is that their sample of accounts were habitual headline+link posters with no additional content. The post must contain something that people can react to (e.g., comments or likes) for the algorithm to get signal. If your followers regu 33.6K views · 372 likes · 8 reposts · 60 replies 20 Apr 2026 FYI: We're now omitting links in @Techmeme tweets. Why? 1. Links limit reach (see embedded study) 2. The cost for posting links using X's API increased today by 1900%. Links may return later, but we're still exploring how we might accomplish that. 305.4K views · 246 likes · 35 reposts · 32 replies 20 Apr 2026 An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news (@laurahazardowen / Nieman Lab) https://t.co/UOFbikgn3a https://t.co/RelzjRbZw6 164.7K views · 42 likes · 8 reposts · 7 replies 09 Apr 2026