Dave W Plummer ✓

@davepl1968 · joined 23 Jun 2010

Hi! I'm Dave Plummer. You might remember me from such Windows components as Task Manager, Windows Pinball, Calc, ZIPFolders, Product Activation, etc. Cheers!

108 863Followers

86Following

17 570Posts total

389.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views5 489this account19 302median for 100K–1M

Reach, %5.04%this account6.12%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.18%this account1.16%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	5 489	19 302	0.28×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.04%	6.12%	0.82×
Engagement rate	1.18%	1.16%	1.01×

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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

262.8K30 Aug

111.1K7 Jul

8K2 Sep

5.5K

9353 Sep

1.2K

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

0.20%30 Aug

1.03%7 Jul

2.42%2 Sep

3.17%

1.18%3 Sep

0.92%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.16%.

What the audience does

Likes73.5%1 774 in total

Reposts6.5%156 in total

Replies4.2%101 in total

Quotes0.5%13 in total

Bookmarks15.3%370 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

I'd like to put the TMOG status strip on the Touch Bar, but I need MacOS14. Can I run 14 on a Touch Bar MacBook Pro? https://t.co/WhSgtsIO4Z 1.2K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 “Think Different” I wrote about the possibility of Mozart being autistic a week or two ago, and it got a lot of response. But it wasn’t Mozart that initially brought the idea to mind. It was Salieri. If your knowledge of the composer Salieri comes primarily from Amadeus, it’s 935 views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 https://t.co/HxjxL4E1lR 5.5K views · 154 likes · 6 reposts · 14 replies 02 Sep 2026 My kid's college experience vs mine :-) https://t.co/bN3zinOBBa 8K views · 166 likes · 2 reposts · 26 replies 02 Sep 2026 Here's a topic list for my chat with Lex: 1:22 - First computer 7:00 - Dropping out of high school 14:41 - Joining Microsoft 16:53 - MS-DOS 20:05 - Windows 95 26:52 - The man behind Windows 31:48 - Debugging 37:05 - Task Manager 42:14 - 3D Pinball: Space Cadet 47:13 - Start menu 111.1K views · 1K likes · 77 reposts · 29 replies 07 Jul 2026 Here's the links for my conversation with Dave Plummer (@davepl1968): YouTube: https://t.co/wdT9l3wMQO Spotify: https://t.co/VjTdb68WX7 Podcast: https://t.co/uxqXcfXs8M https://t.co/6tqol0VMde 262.8K views · 405 likes · 71 reposts · 29 replies 30 Aug 2025