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@dickc · San Francisco · joined 28 May 2007

1 312 399Followers

757Following

6 735Posts total

11.4MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views110 615this account64 838median for 1M–10M

Reach, %8.43%this account2.56%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %0.15%this account1.44%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	110 615	64 838	1.71×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.43%	2.56%	3.29×
Engagement rate	0.15%	1.44%	0.11×

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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

1M8 May

55.5K

582.3K22 Jun

48.7K

1.5M1 Jul

41.9K

17.8K20 Jul

8.1M28 Jul

110.6K30 Jul

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.49%8 May

0.17%

0.12%22 Jun

0.22%

0.20%1 Jul

0.10%

0.15%20 Jul

0.05%28 Jul

0.41%30 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.44%.

What the audience does

Likes82.9%19 401 in total

Reposts4.9%1 144 in total

Replies7.1%1 663 in total

Quotes4.9%1 146 in total

Bookmarks0.2%54 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

Of course he’s a watch guy. Of course he is. Watch people are the cat people of wealth: obsessive, annoying, and have 13 when 1 is sufficient. 110.6K views · 307 likes · 88 reposts · 46 replies 30 Jul 2026 Kevin O’Leary says he begged Rolex for a mythical $1.8 million watch, then cried when the box opened “It is the grail piece of all watches. It is the white gold, ruby and diamond Daytona. Grown men weep just looking at pictures of this mystical beast” “I got on my knees and htt 8.1M views · 1.9K likes · 82 reposts · 1.1K replies 28 Jul 2026 this is PRECISELY what happened https://t.co/S3JnwKebud 17.8K views · 9 likes · 17 reposts · 1 replies 20 Jul 2026 Alex continues to be levelheaded and forthright about AI cybersecurity matters and does about as good a job as possible steering clear of the ranting and finger pointing. 41.9K views · 14 likes · 24 reposts · 2 replies 01 Jul 2026 A lot to unpack here. Anthropic is burying some hard truths in careful political language. Some initial reads: 1) Anthropic verifies that none of the jailbreaks provided a capability beyond what many other models, including Chinese models, could do. 1.5M views · 2.7K likes · 162 reposts · 21 replies 01 Jul 2026 Happy to be investing for the fourth time here in Baseten. While it’s obviously always great to see a portfolio company doing well, it’s just as delightful to see four awesome human beings (Tuhin, Amir, Phil, and Pankaj) having tremendous success alongside their teammates. 48.7K views · 77 likes · 28 reposts · 4 replies 22 Jun 2026 https://t.co/aVf5uLG7j5 582.3K views · 505 likes · 51 reposts · 65 replies 22 Jun 2026 Brilliant, as usual, from the @linear team 55.5K views · 30 likes · 65 reposts · 2 replies 08 May 2026 Today is a hard day. I shared this note with the @linear team today: We’ve made the difficult decision to increase our workforce. This is not a cost-cutting exercise or a reflection of anyone’s performance. We’re simply reimagining every role for the agentic AI era. We’re hiring. 1M views · 13.9K likes · 627 reposts · 443 replies 08 May 2026