Joe Belfiore

@joebelfiore · Redmond, WA · joined 23 Oct 2008

Retired after 30+ years at Microsoft, ran Windows, Office, Windows Phone. Love to talk product/design, gadgets, AI, new customer value. former blue check.

134 859Followers

283Following

2 681Posts total

251.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore17 Aug

Now it’s faster, prettier, and exists just in time for my daughter to share HER gap-year blog as she is about to head out on Semester-at-Sea! Big Trip 2015 — https://t.co/xBW6KhUi6s 9.6K views · 51 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore17 Aug

Weekend Claude Code project: in honor of the 10 year anniversary of our family returning home from our 9-month homeschooling trip around the world, I asked the model to rewrite my hacky, slow Wordpress blog... 10.7K views · 32 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore15 Aug

Worst thing about all the Claude Code/Codex prompting... my right-hand ring finger just HURTS all the time. I should have learned real touch typing and now I'm paying for it... ouch. 17.7K views · 58 likes · 0 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore15 Jul

@joebelfiore Oh, you are still here? :D 3 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore9 Jun

@joebelfiore Lumia 920 will always remain the GOAT 98 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore8 Jun

@joebelfiore ?? I had Lumia 720 and would love to have another one like that Windows phone OS was "beautiful" https://t.co/nTIdnvUvJc

GIF

735 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore7 Jun

😁 59.4K views · 357 likes · 14 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore6 Jun

@geoffkeighley @asha_shar @JezCorden I hope he’s telling Asha to bring back Windows Phone 100.9K views · 912 likes · 10 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore30 Oct 2024

Really nice to hear so many positive comments from so many of you! Kind of miss the engagement here... 💕🙏 Please keep forwarding this on to your own Republican friends/family! 15.3K views · 33 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joe Belfiore@joebelfiore30 Oct 2024

I have smart moderate-Republican friends & family who I respect and love facing a big dilemma this week. I myself once crossed the aisle to vote against my own party (!) so I made a video for folks in that spot. Please share... https://t.co/zESUzWLPqC 36.8K views · 62 likes · 8 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views10 131this account6 079median for 100K–1M

Reach, %7.51%this account1.60%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.37%this account1.00%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	10 131	6 079	1.67×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.51%	1.60%	4.70×
Engagement rate	0.37%	1.00%	0.36×

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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

36.8K30 Oct

15.3K

100.9K6 Jun

59.4K7 Jun

7358 Jun

989 Jun

315 Jul

17.7K15 Aug

10.7K17 Aug

9.6K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.22%30 Oct

0.23%

0.92%6 Jun

0.64%7 Jun

0.41%8 Jun

2.04%9 Jun

0.00%15 Jul

0.41%15 Aug

0.32%17 Aug

0.54%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.00%.

What the audience does

Likes91.9%1 510 in total

Reposts1.9%32 in total

Replies3.1%51 in total

Bookmarks3.0%50 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.