James Poulos ✓

@jamespoulos · 31.77833, 35.22972 · joined 18 Apr 2008

ceremonial grade

29 779Followers

1 000Following

26 612Posts total

4.5MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 792this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.02%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.70%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 792	2 896	0.62×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.02%	9.51%	0.63×
Engagement rate	0.70%	1.56%	0.45×

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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

8.7K24 Aug

47.8K31 Aug

4.5M1 Sep

1.6K2 Sep

861

1.8K

1.2K3 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.73%24 Aug

3.41%31 Aug

0.14%1 Sep

0.44%2 Sep

0.70%

1.17%

0.68%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes65.9%5 766 in total

Reposts5.0%434 in total

Replies12.8%1 120 in total

Quotes8.7%757 in total

Bookmarks7.7%674 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

“The monastery there generated tremendous economic productivity, and thus was able to fund the project and provide work for generations of craftsmen and builders…a whole different outlook on doing business” Bonus question: what is the ideal currency to support such productivity 1.2K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 "Beast and Patterson speak of this." "Did you write it?" "No" "Did you?" "No" 1.8K views · 18 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Covering this and related matters in the Postapocalyptic Cybernetics talk coming to various cities this fall 861 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 In a world where cybersecurity events can't be cleanly separated from the issues entailed in machines saying to one another "oh my god" and "holy shit", it is just going to get a lot harder to conceptualize control systems without at least contemplating the dynamics of temptation 1.6K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Growing up I thought books were boring, in reality I just didn’t read anything that actually interested me. Which is why I teamed up with James Patterson to write The Most Dangerous Games! For many people this might be the first book they actually read (and hopefully enjoy haha) 4.5M views · 4.2K likes · 282 reposts · 1.1K replies 01 Sep 2026 For a little context, the town that built this cathedral in the early Medieval period (Ely, England) had a population of 108 households according to the Domesday Book, right around the time they began construction. That's a total population of around 400-500. By 1377 when they ht 47.8K views · 1.4K likes · 140 reposts · 25 replies 31 Aug 2026 Attention San Francisco: I will be giving a talk on the challenges of our Dostoevskian Moment in an age of accelerating AI; Friday evening September 4 at @AvalonInst for @palladiummag. Tickets are limited. Get yours here: https://t.co/2m0meeUJIs 8.7K views · 49 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026