Blake Barnes ✓

@blakebarnes

VP Product at @google for Gmail, Calendar, Chat and other Workspace products

490Followers

72Following

83Posts total

67KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 086this account3 808median for under 10K

Reach, %221.63%this account249.49%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.37%this account1.30%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 086	3 808	0.29×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.2× audience	2.5× audience	0.89×
Engagement rate	0.37%	1.30%	0.28×

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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

2.4K24 Aug

62.1K27 Aug

1.1K

54428 Aug

845

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.24%24 Aug

0.18%27 Aug

0.18%

0.37%28 Aug

0.59%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.30%.

What the audience does

Likes82.7%129 in total

Reposts0.6%1 in total

Replies10.9%17 in total

Quotes1.3%2 in total

Bookmarks4.5%7 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

@blakebarnes @mvernal @googlecalendar @conviction Wow that was fast! You should do paper cuts office hours for Google Workspace! 845 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 28 Aug 2026 @blakebarnes @mvernal @googlecalendar @conviction oh my god this is going to be huge for me 544 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 @blakebarnes @mvernal @googlecalendar @conviction Love that velocity from Google! 👏 1.1K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 @mvernal @googlecalendar Update: this already works on Android (see attached). iOS and Web updates are coming soon. @mvernal now you can use those 3 hours to take a few more founder meetings @conviction! Video from the amazing Calendar team in Zurich, hence the +1 for dialing a 62.1K views · 94 likes · 1 reposts · 13 replies 27 Aug 2026 @mvernal @googlecalendar Hey Mike! Thanks for the feedback. We will look into this and I’ll follow-up. 2.4K views · 28 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026