Ben Tossell ✓

@bentossell · tinkertown · joined 02 Jul 2009

can't code, won't code. builder, investor (dev tools/infra). 3 under 3 👶.

199 495Followers

573Following

31 317Posts total

4.4MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views5 314this account5 674median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.66%this account2.38%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.48%this account1.44%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	5 314	5 674	0.94×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.66%	2.38%	1.12×
Engagement rate	0.48%	1.44%	0.33×

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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

4.1M31 Dec

169.6K

16K

69.6K

45.9K2 Sep

3.9K

5613 Sep

909

6.2K

6.3K

12.3K4 Sep

4.4K

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

0.24%31 Dec

0.06%

0.42%

0.13%

0.92%2 Sep

0.46%

1.07%3 Sep

0.44%

0.31%

0.46%

0.57%4 Sep

0.50%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.44%.

What the audience does

Likes25.9%9 082 in total

Reposts2.4%827 in total

Replies0.9%309 in total

Quotes0.6%202 in total

Bookmarks70.3%24 664 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.

Latest posts

just saw 👀 https://t.co/dMACteW0Kb 4.4K views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies 04 Sep 2026 £90Bn spent by UK's councils visualised as apple maps 107m rows of (public) data https://t.co/OmTfAEVqSn https://t.co/MecoKrZOA1 12.3K views · 46 likes · 5 reposts · 14 replies 04 Sep 2026 open sourced and added a cli not tested. not looked at code (wouldn’t help anyway) https://t.co/Gqy2k0BT8w 6.3K views · 21 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies 03 Sep 2026 can’t even vibe up a quick vanilla cloud ffs 6.2K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 open sourced https://t.co/Gqy2k0BT8w 909 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @bentossell you know its default in mac? https://t.co/VzaKo3bUEm 561 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 here btw https://t.co/dCQSac7hax - i havent tested much, lmk what you run into 😬 3.9K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 remove .bg is being sunset so fable made me my own (you can clone it) https://t.co/OXeBA6BLHK 45.9K views · 377 likes · 5 reposts · 35 replies 02 Sep 2026 oh and i didnt have a blog until i wrote (spoke) this post, so here's proof of how i shipped my blog so this can live on my personal site https://t.co/MnJaC8BcJ1 https://t.co/V773SRZFro 69.6K views · 78 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies 31 Dec 2025 @bentossell This really resonated with me - I was a developer for 15 years, but I've been out of it for 15 years. I've been using Claude Code, and it's exactly like you're describing. You can build apps that are interesting to you with little effort and throw it away if it does 16K views · 66 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 31 Dec 2025 forgot to link folks mentioned that have helped me (whether they know it or not!) @steipete @badlogicgames @kieranklaassen @karpathy 169.6K views · 89 likes · 3 reposts · 7 replies 31 Dec 2025 https://t.co/Ref8GgkIR5 4.1M views · 8.4K likes · 808 reposts · 221 replies 31 Dec 2025