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@Techmeme · United States · joined 07 Mar 2007
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Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (Wired)
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Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (@sophiemjourno / GamesIndustry․biz)
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Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS․md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS․md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year (@thomasclaburn / The Register)
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Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (Reuters)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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@Techmeme $26B to $47B since May. Almost $10B of interest.
The market is pricing software that ships itself.
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Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest (Bloomberg)
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@Techmeme @laurahazardowen I have practically zero engagement anyway, so I’m not too concerned about posting tweets with links
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@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
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@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.
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@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
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@Techmeme @laurahazardowen Where is the analysis here? I don’t see any attempt to isolate the effect of link inclusion from post quality
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@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
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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.
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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)
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Sources: Elon Musk fired over 90% of Twitter's 200+ staff in India over the weekend, including ~70% of the product and engineering teams (@sankalp_sp / Bloomberg)
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Against accounts of the same size
11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.
Median views3 381this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %0.79%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.20%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 3 381 | 5 983 | 0.57× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.79% | 1.49% | 0.53× |
| Engagement rate | 0.20% | 0.93% | 0.21× |
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
87020 Apr
1.9K
363
93.7K2 Sep
1.7K
203
5.9K5 Sep
4.2K
3.4K
1.4K
7.7K19 Sep
2.4K
2K
3.6K
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
0.80%20 Apr
0.42%
0.00%
0.10%2 Sep
0.00%
0.00%
0.26%5 Sep
0.19%
0.09%
0.36%
0.43%19 Sep
0.45%
0.20%
0.36%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes68.3%840 in total
Reposts5.2%64 in total
Replies9.6%118 in total
Quotes2.8%35 in total
Bookmarks14.0%172 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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