Long Now Foundation ✓

@longnow · San Francisco, CA · joined 02 Jul 2008

Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

53 688Followers

5 418Following

15 334Posts total

1.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 918this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.57%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.45%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 918	2 751	0.70×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.57%	9.00%	0.40×
Engagement rate	0.45%	1.65%	0.28×

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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

10.3K2 Dec

1.9K28 Aug

906.9K31 Aug

249K1 Sep

1.5K

1.3K2 Sep

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

0.89%2 Dec

0.42%28 Aug

0.36%31 Aug

3.84%1 Sep

0.84%

0.45%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes76.8%10 609 in total

Reposts15.4%2 132 in total

Replies0.6%78 in total

Quotes1.2%169 in total

Bookmarks6.0%832 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

Wendell Berry has died at 92. Author, poet, environmentalist—and vocal contributor to debates on long-term thinking and technology. Read this lively debate between Berry and Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand on space colonies (1977): https://t.co/Og9grCYE90 Read this thoughtful 1.3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Science needs optimism. “This is the reason we tolerate failed experiments, broken theories, and rejections from journals. To do science well and rigorously, we must believe that a better truth is possible.” From @sfiscience professor Brandon Ogbunu in a review of 𝘐𝘵 1.5K views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 A poem by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at age 92. https://t.co/cAjR4iTs7u https://t.co/Hn58RPYtfu 249K views · 7.5K likes · 1.8K reposts · 41 replies 01 Sep 2026 “The Speed of the Earth” has returned to Black Rock City. Originally created in 02024, this art piece by Long Now Board members Kevin Kelly and David Rumsey uses a mile-long line of solar-powered LED strobes to create a streak of light that moves at the speed of the Earth's https 906.9K views · 3K likes · 271 reposts · 33 replies 31 Aug 2026 Why is Antarctica ground zero for conspiracy theories? It’s the only continent with no history of human habitation, yet it's home to top secret military and scientific research. Allegra Rosenberg (@llegrarosenberg) traces the legends, the lore, and the real circumstances that 1.9K views · 5 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 Challenges that feel impossible to tackle within a single human lifetime become conceivable when you have a longer timescale to work with. Today is a day to take the long view. Join our community of long-term thinking, 02026 is going to be a good one. https://t.co/WZ7cPt9H6i h 10.3K views · 77 likes · 9 reposts · 4 replies 02 Dec 2025