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Ben Thompson ✓

@benthompson · Wisconsin, USA · joined 04 Dec 2006

Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @ditheringfm @sharptechpod. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.

282 319Followers
1 603Following
72 814Posts total
803.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

OK Gemini it’s now or never https://t.co/lG0mavLxfB 145.3K views · 1.2K likes · 40 reposts · 45 replies Open on X →
@benthompson it’s like you never left an eng org with a smart asshole. 4.1K views · 30 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@benthompson At least in programming, Codex is the meticulous programmer who thinks(sometimes over the top) of edge cases and prepares for them. Claude on the other hand is the senior engineer who used to code and now discounts any objections from others as no big deal yet fixes 6.7K views · 109 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
@benthompson Reminds me of when I had a Gemini model refer to its conversation thread summarizer bot as a midwit 2.5K views · 23 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate 169.9K views · 1K likes · 13 reposts · 48 replies Open on X →
@benthompson 💯 https://t.co/3QT99tXUAg 10K views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@benthompson Don’t ever use Ultra. It’ll burn through everything and accomplish nothing. 9.3K views · 65 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
@benthompson Stop using subs you don’t control directly - they always convince the parent to modify scope 10K views · 31 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
Never leave Sol unattended. https://t.co/ZUUTDrhS35 315.2K views · 2.2K likes · 65 reposts · 239 replies Open on X →
Always on the lookout for this 😆 https://t.co/HepnVigyQC 11.4K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Very sad news, on a human level, an industry level, and a personal level. I didn’t know Om super well, but he was one of the pioneers that made Stratechery possible. And my most vivid memory of him is some truly excellent device that he unilaterally reached out to give me right 52.2K views · 424 likes · 22 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →
It's actually super important that the Siri demo was kind of slow, because it emphasized it was real. Would be even better if it were live, though. 66.5K views · 1.1K likes · 19 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →
So, I've launched a new podcast with @andrewsharp: https://t.co/PcqzW0TUT3 0 views · 689 likes · 286 reposts · 70 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

1 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views145 270this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %51.46%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.89%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post145 2705 98324.3×
Reach (views ÷ followers)51.46%1.49%34.5×
Engagement rate0.89%0.93%0.96×

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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

66.5K8 Jun
52.2K26 Jun
11.4K20 Jul
315.2K21 Jul
10K22 Jul
9.3K
10K
169.9K25 Jul
2.5K
6.7K
4.1K
145.3K3 Sep

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.67%8 Jun
0.90%26 Jun
0.13%20 Jul
0.83%21 Jul
0.35%22 Jul
0.74%
0.23%
0.65%25 Jul
0.92%
1.73%
0.75%
0.89%3 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes83.1%6 256 in total
Reposts2.1%161 in total
Replies5.1%382 in total
Quotes1.5%115 in total
Bookmarks8.2%616 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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