Chris Blattman ✓

@cblatts · Chicago, IL · joined 14 Sep 2009

Economist & political scientist @UChicago @HarrisPolicy studying conflict & organized crime. My book is Why We Fight: https://t.co/pwWjDnYzvo

106 470Followers

4 366Following

32 203Posts total

208.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Chris Blattman ✓@cblatts14 Sep

A preliminary list of climbing social scientists (leisure-wise, not work-wise): https://t.co/ptWo1Ektoj Feel free to add yourself 13.5K views · 50 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Chris Blattman ✓@cblatts14 Sep

Worth reading 23.8K views · 32 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chris Blattman ✓@cblatts9 Sep

I would say there’s a step change but a tiny one. About the same difference as 5.5 Codex to 5.5 ChatGPT Pro. Enough to merit using once in a while, but not an obvious and dramatic improvement. 17.2K views · 22 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Chris Blattman ✓@cblatts8 Sep

I’m in a group chat with economists in a variety of fields - all are in 90th percentile or greater of ai use in the profession Fwiw no one’s noticed a step change from 5.6 to 6. Bottleneck for Econ research is not what the models are being rl’ed on. Might be that economic 40.6K views · 113 likes · 5 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Chris Blattman ✓@cblatts3 Sep

Am putting together a list of economists and political scientists who rock climb for the purpose of seeing whether there are more opportunities for climbing meets, conferences, conference circuit, etc. 27.5K views · 117 likes · 5 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Chris Blattman ✓@cblatts12 Aug

A+ 86.3K views · 462 likes · 13 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views25 658this account6 463median for 100K–1M

Reach, %24.10%this account1.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.37%this account0.98%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	25 658	6 463	3.97×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	24.10%	1.71%	14.1×
Engagement rate	0.37%	0.98%	0.38×

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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

86.3K12 Aug

27.5K3 Sep

40.6K8 Sep

17.2K9 Sep

23.8K14 Sep

13.5K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.56%12 Aug

0.54%3 Sep

0.32%8 Sep

0.17%9 Sep

0.16%14 Sep

0.42%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.98%.

What the audience does

Likes75.0%796 in total

Reposts3.2%34 in total

Replies4.9%52 in total

Quotes0.6%6 in total

Bookmarks16.3%173 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.