Jason Goldman ✓

@goldman · San Francisco, CA · joined 20 May 2006

I work on Internet text boxes with mixed results. Examples include: Blogger, Google, Twitter, Obvious, Medium, the Obama White House.

871 495Followers

668Following

60 839Posts total

12.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Jason Goldman ✓@goldman8 Sep

I mean say what you will about the end of everything ... amazing movie calendar tho. 32 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jason Goldman ✓@goldman8 Sep

Greatest city in the world 5.3K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jason Goldman ✓@goldman5 Sep

I love how precisely Dave frames this. My naive answer is that technologists routinely underestimate the power of inertia as a universal law. You would think that we’d already see the examples Dave mentions. 4.6K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jason Goldman ✓@goldman4 Sep

It all happens on X https://t.co/LGXWPZUysm

2.2K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jason Goldman ✓@goldman18 Nov 2022

The thing is ... I love this site. It's the most favorite thing I've ever worked on. I wrote this almost the same week I started working on Twitter (then Obvious 1.0). Despite everything I still believe it. And I still believe no matter what the dream won't die here. https://t.co

0 views · 273 likes · 250 reposts · 29 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 378this account4 851median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.39%this account1.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.14%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 378	4 851	0.70×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.39%	1.71%	0.23×
Engagement rate	0.14%	1.25%	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

2.2K4 Sep

4.6K5 Sep

5.3K8 Sep

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.19%4 Sep

0.17%5 Sep

0.11%8 Sep

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes68.2%15 in total

Reposts4.5%1 in total

Replies4.5%1 in total

Quotes4.5%1 in total

Bookmarks18.2%4 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.