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Caleb Watney

@calebwatney · Brookland, DC · joined 18 Jan 2012

head of public policy @coeff_giving, previously co-founded @IFP // the US is the R&D lab for the world and we should act like it

23 717Followers
1 068Following
22 256Posts total
504.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views20 110this account1 266median for 10K–100K
Reach, %84.79%this account3.99%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.15%this account1.98%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post20 1101 26615.9×
Reach (views ÷ followers)84.79%3.99%21.2×
Engagement rate1.15%1.98%0.58×

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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

203.9K9 Jul
1.3K
4.9K
1.6K
75.4K24 Aug
35.3K
75.6K26 Aug
2.5K
2.6K
1.5K29 Aug
49.5K5 Sep
50.5K

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

0.48%9 Jul
2.27%
1.08%
1.84%
0.82%24 Aug
1.92%
1.06%26 Aug
0.79%
1.67%
2.47%29 Aug
0.12%5 Sep
1.21%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.98%.

What the audience does

Likes79.7%3 475 in total
Reposts5.8%255 in total
Replies3.4%147 in total
Quotes1.8%80 in total
Bookmarks9.2%403 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

Extremely funny to me that the anti-AI safety take has now shifted to "We shouldn't worry about these crazy sci-fi risks... We should only care about near-term issues like AI-enabled bioterrorism and cyber hacking 😤" 50.5K views · 558 likes · 41 reposts · 11 replies 05 Sep 2026 As Newport points out, harping on doom for the species changes the subject from immediate and obvious threats from AI, such as enabling bioterrorism, undermining truth-seeking institutions, and breaching cybersecurity. 49.5K views · 50 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 "The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping." https://t.co/twbxvCqDje 1.5K views · 34 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 29 Aug 2026 @calebwatney Imagine having your wedding officiated by someone you met the year prior 2.6K views · 41 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 26 Aug 2026 @calebwatney hilarious how many journalists are on the Leopold beat right now. the people demand wunderkind stories 2.5K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 Incredible reveal https://t.co/NvYtMIdGpW https://t.co/hDlvD4xd4D 75.6K views · 725 likes · 51 reposts · 13 replies 26 Aug 2026 https://t.co/nvJY8IYFFx 35.3K views · 641 likes · 27 reposts · 10 replies 24 Aug 2026 We just made our biggest grant yet: $212 million to @AgainstMalaria to support bed net campaigns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with other @GiveWell donors adding another $64 million. GiveWell expects these nets to avert 67,000 deaths, mostly in kids under five. 75.4K views · 520 likes · 60 reposts · 24 replies 24 Aug 2026 @calebwatney @IFP @coeff_giving @mattsclancy You forgot to say “April fools” 1.6K views · 28 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 09 Jul 2026 @calebwatney @IFP @coeff_giving @mattsclancy https://t.co/UUYSiyvFgP 4.9K views · 48 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 09 Jul 2026 @calebwatney @IFP @coeff_giving @mattsclancy amazing get and amazing gig 1.3K views · 29 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 09 Jul 2026 Some bittersweet news to announce today: I recently left @IFP to join @coeff_giving as Managing Director of Public Policy, where I'm building a new US AI policy team, overseeing the Abundance and Growth Fund alongside @mattsclancy, and managing CG's government affairs work. htt 203.9K views · 781 likes · 72 reposts · 80 replies 09 Jul 2026

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