alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓

@alex · Providence · joined 10 Jul 2007

Journalist. @CaOptNews. Dad x3. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. I podcast and write. Hey!

105 878Followers

8 453Following

149 698Posts total

454.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex8 Sep

first day of nursery school for my oldest heart very full and turbulent 137 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex8 Sep

Hey cool @regentcraft got a big spread! https://t.co/miJ4QiZ5ix

664 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex7 Sep

Is there a political party co-opted by Russian money that musk doesn’t love? 3.1K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex7 Sep

Agree 3.2K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex6 Sep

A little late on this, but the Vance plan to redirect money from childcare for mostly single parents so they can give cash to stay-at-home parents is absolutely putrid policy and anyone on here defending it should jump in a lake 49.3K views · 1.3K likes · 98 reposts · 45 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex3 Sep

Octavia is celebrating her second birthday today and has the worlds cutest birthday dress on and I’m dying 1.4K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex3 Sep

Iiiiiiiinteresting 1.4K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex3 Sep

Wtf 1.6K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex3 Sep

Boo, hiss 1.6K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex2 Sep

"I believe that public disclosures of technical methods for training or inference of frontier models should be understood to accelerate frontier capability diffusion, and it's appropriate for such decisions to require intense debates behind the scenes before proceeding" *loud 1.5K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex2 Sep

yes 1.5K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex2 Sep

Codex? very good product, though I really want to use Sol High Fast, which eats my avail usage like a toddler attacking a fresh clamshell of blueberries 2K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex2 Sep

Interesting convo + call for regs 2.3K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex2 Sep

Did Cursor sell too early? 72.1K views · 253 likes · 0 reposts · 37 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex2 Sep

A very hot take: chain of thought interpretability was always going to be so fragile as to be an unacceptable backstop for long-term AI safety, and while I admire the optimism and effort involved in protecting its fidelity (and consider such effort to have been worthwhile), I do 96.4K views · 409 likes · 32 reposts · 52 replies Open on X →

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 ✓@alex17 Jun 2024

Written words: https://t.co/Ciz1wLTlJy Spoken words: @twistartups Favorite person: you! 216K views · 134 likes · 16 reposts · 42 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 621this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.53%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.41%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	1 621	5 983	0.27×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.53%	1.49%	1.03×
Engagement rate	0.41%	0.93%	0.44×

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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

72.1K2 Sep

2.3K

1.5K

1.6K3 Sep

1.6K

1.4K

49.3K6 Sep

3.2K7 Sep

3.1K

6648 Sep

137

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

0.41%2 Sep

0.17%

0.74%

0.27%

0.41%

1.05%3 Sep

0.06%

0.29%

0.87%

2.87%6 Sep

0.25%7 Sep

0.39%

0.75%8 Sep

3.65%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes80.0%2 139 in total

Reposts5.5%147 in total

Replies7.3%194 in total

Quotes1.3%34 in total

Bookmarks6.0%161 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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Frequently asked questions about @alex

How many followers does @alex have?

105 878 followers.

How many posts has @alex published?

149 698 posts.

How do posts by @alex perform?

Collected posts: 16. Views: 454 169. Likes: 2 139.