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Ben Landau-Taylor ✓

@benlandautaylor · San Francisco · joined 26 Jun 2018

Investigating power, society, and industry with @0xthestudents

16 529Followers
23Following
6 413Posts total
17.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Found myself recommending this essay in the gc again. You read. 1.6K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
In the best system, random public stabbers are jailed, tried, and within a ~month are imprisoned for life or executed. In the second-best system, a vigilante mob hangs them in the town square. In the worst system, the police just let them free to stab again. 2.7K views · 74 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@benlandautaylor I can attest to that. I'm a forum moderator. In literally 100% of cases where a user has gone onto some other platform and complained that mods banned them "for no reason" or the like, they've *always* lied through their teeth about the actual circumstances. 203 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@benlandautaylor reminds me of this thing I came across from a very different cultural situation https://t.co/IaNQ1sYrmf https://t.co/pF7k0mLLFK 645 views · 32 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Several times I've heard someone claim "Wow this [event/venue/forum] banned me for absolutely no reason, I don't even know why" and every time it was just totally false, every case I checked had a pretty understandable reason behind it. Like sometimes I've seen someone banned and 4.4K views · 95 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
People have said some very nice things about our show but "Early 90s message boards energy" is probably my favorite. 1.4K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@mmjukic @0xthestudents basically the only interesting and original videos/podcasts online at the moment. Early 90s message boards energy 1.7K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
For the most part I admire the Rationalists' discourse norms, but their "I agree that [thing the interlocutor absolutely did not say]" move drives me into a feral rage. 2.6K views · 43 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →
Socrates is Mortal https://t.co/gAL8IBqWpC 2.6K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 666this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %10.08%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.08%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post1 6669241.80×
Reach (views ÷ followers)10.08%3.62%2.78×
Engagement rate2.08%1.52%1.37×

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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

2.6K27 Mar
2.6K1 Sep
1.7K
1.4K
4.4K2 Sep
645
203
2.7K4 Sep
1.6K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.57%27 Mar
1.90%1 Sep
0.29%
1.40%
2.26%2 Sep
5.43%
2.46%
2.93%4 Sep
0.43%

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

What the audience does

Likes84.1%292 in total
Reposts1.4%5 in total
Replies3.5%12 in total
Quotes1.4%5 in total
Bookmarks9.5%33 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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