Mike Vernal ✓

@mvernal · San Francisco, CA · joined 03 Apr 2008

Investor + Engineer @ @Conviction

21 765Followers

1 543Following

1 069Posts total

49.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Mike Vernal ✓@mvernal31 Aug

Pranav (@pranavreddy): "I asked Claude to tell me how good a writer I was on a scale of 1-10. It kept refusing, insisting that my question came from a place of insecurity and it was unwilling to judge or evaluate me on this premise." Me: "I wonder what it would say if I asked?" 12.8K views · 38 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Mike Vernal ✓@mvernal27 Aug

I always feel bad when I tweet a customer complaint on X, but I am grateful to @blakebarnes and the team who fixed it very quickly. :) 7.7K views · 40 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Mike Vernal ✓@mvernal27 Aug

Legato is a super cool product. It's like the Meta Displays but w/o the at-times-awkward camera. It's initially focused on those with hearing loss – it's a lot more subtle than an in-ear hearing aid – but it also works great for calls and hands-free AI usage. Congrats @mehuligan 4.8K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mike Vernal ✓@mvernal27 Aug

I thought this part was particularly interesting: How can we know that two engines are dependent? It is easy to measure. Engines converging on relevant results proves nothing. What they shouldn't share is mistakes. When two engines keep returning the same irrelevant documents ht 5.4K views · 20 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mike Vernal ✓@mvernal26 Aug

Perception: •⁠ ⁠This is the craziest founder reveal ever! •⁠ ⁠This is the most insane velvet-rope launch strategy ever! Reality: •⁠ ⁠Some people just prefer quietly building vs. tweeting •⁠ ⁠Compute is really scarce right now! Have you not been reading Twitter? 13.8K views · 100 likes · 2 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Mike Vernal ✓@mvernal26 Aug

Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses https://t.co/eecA2m2frw via @techcrunch 5.1K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views6 535this account1 002median for 10K–100K

Reach, %30.03%this account3.71%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.43%this account1.64%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 535	1 002	6.52×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	30.03%	3.71%	8.09×
Engagement rate	0.43%	1.64%	0.26×

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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

5.1K26 Aug

13.8K

5.4K27 Aug

4.8K

7.7K

12.8K31 Aug

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

0.20%26 Aug

0.80%

0.45%27 Aug

0.42%

0.60%

0.36%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.64%.

What the audience does

Likes66.5%224 in total

Reposts1.5%5 in total

Replies6.8%23 in total

Quotes1.2%4 in total

Bookmarks24.0%81 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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