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Trevor McKendrick ✓

@TrevMcKendrick · USA · joined 16 Jul 2008

YC founder. Working on the next thing.

18 878Followers
1 703Following
7 647Posts total
2.4MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

The NYT could have made the headline about many industries Making it about fake college essays was a choice 308 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
It’s really problematic that so many people are determined to take a story that provided new interesting information about the world, treat it like an op-ed, attribute a dumb thesis to the op-ed, and then get angry about it. 33.1K views · 504 likes · 31 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →
How does one bet on the median AI outcome: Total transformation of society but gradually over 20+ years 178 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
GOAT 764 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@TrevMcKendrick By “American” college students, I think they mean “students at American universities” The distinction is left up to the reader 32.7K views · 1.2K likes · 17 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →
@TrevMcKendrick Much though I despise the New York Times, the framing here is just "interesting bizarre story," not "AI bad." 34.2K views · 1.2K likes · 4 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →
Not the first or last time a husband will start drowning in Claude attempting to explain something he thought he already deeply understood 5K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
started asking my husband questions about how photons actually work and now he’s been talking to claude for an hour and saying things like “wait this is actually fucked up.” apparently photons can be many kilometers thick? i am not buying that those things are particles at all. 44.8K views · 659 likes · 3 reposts · 47 replies Open on X →
@TrevMcKendrick I just can't believe colleges have been quietly graduating people doing this kind of industrial scale cheating for a decade+ Like, it confirms my decision a few years ago to devalue the credential in our hiring 16.7K views · 370 likes · 3 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →
"AI has destroyed Kenyan jobs because American college students no longer hire them to write fake college essays" is not a framing I expected even the NYT to have https://t.co/7DlifkjLE2
2.2M views · 23K likes · 3.6K reposts · 498 replies Open on X →
https://t.co/Bw9wjpfns9 15K views · 40 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views24 705this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %130.87%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.41%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post24 70592426.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)130.87%3.62%36.1×
Engagement rate1.41%1.52%0.93×

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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

15K28 Apr
2.2M7 Sep
16.7K
44.8K
5K
34.2K
32.7K
764
178
33.1K
308

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.31%28 Apr
1.23%7 Sep
2.32%
1.59%
0.20%
3.53%
3.80%
0.13%
0.00%
1.67%
0.97%

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

What the audience does

Likes78.6%27 006 in total
Reposts10.7%3 662 in total
Replies1.8%602 in total
Quotes1.4%470 in total
Bookmarks7.6%2 603 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

7 Sep

Daily snapshots since 07 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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