Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com ✓

@mikebutcher · London · joined 21 Nov 2006

Founder & Editor, @Pathfounders | formerly @TechCrunch 2006-2025 | mike@pathfounders.com | Signal mikebutcher.04 | https://t.co/JepXg7SOFj (MBE)

136 546Followers

15 855Following

98 833Posts total

26.6KViews on collected posts

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Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com ✓@mikebutcher8 Sep

The economics of drones are the new reality in modern warfare. As the US has found to its cost, it can often cost more to shoot down a drone on the battlefield than the drone itself, putting the defender on the back foot. A new German defence-tech startup says it’s come up with

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Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com ✓@mikebutcher7 Sep

@mikebutcher What tech industry? 727 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com ✓@mikebutcher7 Sep

If Germany gets rid of dual citizenship, they can kiss their tech industry (and a few other industries) goodbye. From the Telegraph: "Germany’s ruling conservative party is drawing up plans to overhaul the country’s liberal citizenship laws to fight back against the Alternative 10.6K views · 36 likes · 8 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com ✓@mikebutcher7 Sep

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Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com ✓@mikebutcher6 Sep

I attended the @wayve_ai and @UberUK launch of their autonomous ride-hailng service in London for @pathfounders. Wayve and Uber have beaten Google’s Waymo Taxis to launch the UK’s first autonomous service, available on your normal Uber app, but the rides will initially still have

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Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com ✓@mikebutcher5 Sep

How else was it supposed to get off the ground? The hydrocarbon sector gets SUBSIDIES! Ever heard of airline fuel!? 3.5K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com ✓@mikebutcher23 Jun

Founder & Editor, @Pathfounders https://t.co/AOOXQPZaqS Editor-at-large @TechCrunch, 2006-2025 Co-Founder: @TheEuropas @Techfugees @TechHub @StartupCltn @TechForUK @tech_vets LI: https://t.co/UmdRWBkAoY Speaker / Moderator / Broadcaster Speaking: https://t.co/deHkHNiISr https://t

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Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views3 108this account4 817median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.28%this account1.79%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.36%this account1.32%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 108	4 817	0.65×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.28%	1.79%	1.27×
Engagement rate	0.36%	1.32%	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

5.7K23 Jun

3.5K5 Sep

3.1K6 Sep

1.3K7 Sep

10.6K

727

1.6K8 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

0.19%23 Jun

0.12%5 Sep

0.87%6 Sep

0.00%7 Sep

0.52%

1.65%

0.37%8 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.32%.

What the audience does

Likes63.6%84 in total

Reposts7.6%10 in total

Replies13.6%18 in total

Quotes2.3%3 in total

Bookmarks12.9%17 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.

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