Ashlee Vance ✓

@ashleevance · Angst · joined 12 Oct 2009

Writing at https://t.co/m6EtO60SiY and host of the Core Memory podcast. 2X NYT best-seller. Filmmaker @HBO (Wild, Wild Space) + @Netflix (Don't Die).

201 894Followers

4 188Following

12 633Posts total

202.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance5 Sep

So much of the @SpaceX story is young, hungry, smart people being put in charge of big jobs. Dude applied to work there 15 times. 15. And then got to run part of Starship. Is there any other company where this type of thing would happen? Full video here - https://t.co/gHVOQLhX 22.7K views · 558 likes · 26 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance4 Sep

This will no doubt come as a surprise to you, but industrial fishing in the U.S. is not a pleasant experience for the fish. Quite often, fish are hauled aboard and then either dumped on the deck of a boat or unloaded onto some ice where they’re left to writhe around until they 21.4K views · 277 likes · 23 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance4 Sep

I met Scott Wu when he was 18. He was dominating coding competitions back then and obviously super, super bright. Then, I did the first story on Devin and Cognition. Think I misread Scott early on and so did this profile on Scott and Cognition's growing ambitions. https://t.co/ 8.2K views · 42 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance3 Sep

You asked. We listened. Here's a full tour of Starfront and allllllll their glorious telescopes alongside Bray Falls. Go ahead, nerd away. https://t.co/hkEZXqEEWr 9.3K views · 30 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance3 Sep

Did the AI podcaster just stop AI? 10.5K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance3 Sep

.@ShamsCharania just actively begging to be humiliated by @PabloTorre now 9.1K views · 44 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance3 Sep

"Claude, what's the best way for me to do the most harm with something I will never understand?" https://t.co/eKemBuz3kG 49.6K views · 2.5K likes · 153 reposts · 41 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance28 Aug

This and many more stories on our YouTube channel as well https://t.co/Vkfot2Z5bw 33.8K views · 76 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance22 Aug

Out on a frozen lake in Canada, an upside-down cell tower is collecting data on the local fish population. The device is called Echo, and it’s just the beginning of what Dominion Dynamics hopes to build for the country’s growing defense industry. (Video episode here on YouTube - 11.7K views · 78 likes · 9 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance27 Jul 2025

@ashleevance @corememory @newlimit @brian_armstrong @patrickc @collision @JoshuaKushner @natfriedman Truly impressive work 2.1K views · 23 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance27 Jul 2025

It would seem that @bryan_johnson is onto something 5K views · 29 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance27 Jul 2025

And on our Substack where we have many other wonderful videos, stories and podcasts Subscribe like you mean it https://t.co/Gm4fU3i8sj 6K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ashlee Vance ✓@ashleevance27 Jul 2025

Also here on our @YouTube channel, where we have many other wonderful videos. https://t.co/jeX59XAHly Subscribe like you mean it 12.8K views · 31 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views11 705this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %5.80%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.55%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	11 705	5 983	1.96×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.80%	1.49%	3.89×
Engagement rate	0.55%	0.93%	0.59×

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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

12.8K27 Jul

2.1K

11.7K22 Aug

33.8K28 Aug

49.6K3 Sep

9.1K

10.5K

9.3K

8.2K4 Sep

21.4K

22.7K5 Sep

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.25%27 Jul

0.25%

0.62%

1.09%

0.80%22 Aug

0.24%28 Aug

5.53%3 Sep

0.51%

0.15%

0.35%

0.55%4 Sep

1.48%

2.63%5 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes84.8%3 744 in total

Reposts5.0%219 in total

Replies1.8%81 in total

Quotes0.5%24 in total

Bookmarks7.9%347 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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