Nat Friedman ✓

@natfriedman · California · joined 08 Feb 2008

https://t.co/Lhh178sIjq

462 630Followers

821Following

5 673Posts total

2.7MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views134 918this account5 930median for 100K–1M

Reach, %29.16%this account2.48%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.23%this account1.41%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	134 918	5 930	22.8×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	29.16%	2.48%	11.8×
Engagement rate	0.23%	1.41%	0.16×

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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

426.6K17 Apr

92.8K3 May

668.5K5 May

66K

16.2K6 May

160.4K3 Jun

926.5K3 Jul

44.2K

8.3K

15K

140.8K15 Jul

129K16 Jul

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.48%17 Apr

0.63%3 May

1.23%5 May

0.50%

2.29%6 May

0.69%3 Jun

0.71%3 Jul

0.22%

0.90%

0.64%

0.06%15 Jul

0.41%16 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes83.9%18 208 in total

Reposts4.4%965 in total

Replies3.3%715 in total

Quotes1.1%234 in total

Bookmarks7.3%1 582 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

Vesuvius Challenge has been quietly making a lot of progress; we read a full scroll, developed a new unwrapping algorithm with a global spiral prior, and we just launched a new $1M grand prize for reading one of the scrolls we've scanned. There are also 10 $50k prizes available 129K views · 431 likes · 61 reposts · 33 replies 16 Jul 2026 A new phase BEGINS! 🚀 🏆 $1M Grand Prize 💰 $2M+ in open prizes 👑 $20K awarded every month to the best submission https://t.co/P6VuhVYK1L Will you read the next scroll? 👀 Spread the word and repost! 🔁 140.8K views · 61 likes · 16 reposts · 0 replies 15 Jul 2026 @natfriedman As a shareholder of humanity, I’m happy to see you in the game Nat. 15K views · 91 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 03 Jul 2025 @natfriedman taking the balance sheet of the worlds largest mega corp and using it to develop the technology to find noahs ark, the arc of the covenant, and other biblical artifacts is top tier stuff. congrats king 8.3K views · 75 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Jul 2025 @natfriedman can you publicly promise to continue doing cool stuff like plasticlist and vesuvius 🙏🏼 44.2K views · 93 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 03 Jul 2025 Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won't happen overnight, but a few days in, I'm feeling confident that great things are ahead. 926.5K views · 6.1K likes · 129 reposts · 338 replies 03 Jul 2025 Civilization is constant maintenance 160.4K views · 935 likes · 95 reposts · 56 replies 03 Jun 2025 @natfriedman Maybe I was too hasty to dismiss this https://t.co/C6kmKPw3Py 16.2K views · 367 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 06 May 2025 Read more: https://t.co/dCTNsIUL95 66K views · 307 likes · 16 reposts · 6 replies 05 May 2025 We found the title of a scroll for the first time! This cylinder of charcoal turns out to be "On Vices, Book 1" by Philodemus https://t.co/3RrM0a4M2n 668.5K views · 7.4K likes · 576 reposts · 156 replies 05 May 2025 Amazingly, this looks like it might be solved, thanks to a lot of help from some wonderful people on X. 🤞 Thank you! 92.8K views · 549 likes · 17 reposts · 16 replies 03 May 2025 Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks! 426.6K views · 1.8K likes · 53 reposts · 102 replies 17 Apr 2025 Yes please let me know immediately if Ibn Khaldun drops any "new release updates" https://t.co/amyp314vro 0 views · 271 likes · 23 reposts · 6 replies 17 Nov 2021