Elena ✓

@VirtualElena · sf · joined 25 Nov 2012

podcasts @a16z new media

32 337Followers

2 932Following

4 957Posts total

379KViews on collected posts

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Elena ✓@VirtualElena15 Sep

one of the more reliable rules of the internet is that if a sufficiently committed group of people in silicon valley decides something is good/bad/going to change the world/kill us all, you will inevitably learn all about it (and then form an opinion about it yourself). this has

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Elena ✓@VirtualElena15 Sep

How do you differentiate a real cultural shift from a manufactured one? Cyber ethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot studies culture through TikToks. He scores thousands of them by category and sentiment to measure what people do versus what they post. In this conversation with https

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Elena ✓@VirtualElena14 Sep

greg brockman says “we’re now in the AGI era.” one of the most interesting things about this conversation with @bhorowitz and @eriktorenberg is how long he’s been thinking about when that would happen. at the beginning of the pod, @gdb recalls doing some math on compute with htt

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Elena ✓@VirtualElena8 Sep

one of my favorite weekly habits is reading lunch with the ft. so i made a world of lunches every single "lunch with the ft" mapped, built in 3 hours with astra and minimal supervision https://t.co/o62obuZMqP https://t.co/rxT7GsB5CU

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Elena ✓@VirtualElena28 Aug

it’s the machine age now. plan accordingly. 7.7K views · 67 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Elena ✓@VirtualElena12 Mar

this is why i wish the tech/sci fi film canon were wider. im tired of references to Her and Bladerunner and The Social Network etc. in 2026 you should be watching: -Demonlover -Until the End of the World -Videodrome -World on a Wire -Solaris -The 10th Victim -Megalopolis https:/

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Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views18 962this account935median for 10K–100K

Reach, %58.64%this account3.43%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.67%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	18 962	935	20.3×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	58.64%	3.43%	17.1×
Engagement rate	0.67%	1.55%	0.43×

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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

190.8K12 Mar

7.7K28 Aug

19K8 Sep

10.4K14 Sep

61.9K15 Sep

89.2K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.35%12 Mar

0.98%28 Aug

0.67%8 Sep

0.68%14 Sep

0.24%15 Sep

0.12%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes49.0%2 747 in total

Reposts4.3%242 in total

Replies1.8%101 in total

Quotes0.4%24 in total

Bookmarks44.5%2 495 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.