Arvind Narayanan ✓

@random_walker · Princeton, NJ · joined 04 Dec 2007

Princeton CS prof and Director @PrincetonCITP. Coauthor of "AI Snake Oil" and "AI as Normal Technology". https://t.co/ZwebetjZ4n Views mine.

130 618Followers

561Following

13 337Posts total

618.8KViews on collected posts

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 views56 204this account22 159median for 100K–1M

Reach, %43.03%this account6.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.58%this account1.18%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	56 204	22 159	2.54×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	43.03%	6.71%	6.41×
Engagement rate	0.58%	1.18%	0.49×

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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

168.1K12 Jun

288.9K27 Aug

58.5K31 Aug

21.8K

19.5K

56.2K1 Sep

5.8K2 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

0.25%12 Jun

0.56%27 Aug

1.18%31 Aug

0.06%

1.01%

0.58%1 Sep

1.18%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.18%.

What the audience does

Likes49.6%2 597 in total

Reposts9.1%477 in total

Replies3.5%181 in total

Quotes1.2%61 in total

Bookmarks36.7%1 920 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

There is a lot to say from an AI-as-normal-technology perspective about the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident and what lessons we should learn from it — some obvious points that need to be said anyway, and some non-obvious ones. Essay by @sayashk and me coming soon! 5.8K views · 60 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies 02 Sep 2026 This was a great article and I learned a lot from it. But while there's a lot of writing on robotics timelines, I've seen less on what happens once competent robots do inevitably arrive. US agriculture employment share dropped 50x because of mechanization. This is very different 56.2K views · 268 likes · 41 reposts · 14 replies 01 Sep 2026 You’re too kind. 🙏 I don’t know how much value there is in ideas without execution but I’m happy to give it a go! Here’s one — and it’s quite meta, because it’s about what breaks when AI slop makes certain things too cheap. If anyone would like to build on this, I’d be happy to h 19.5K views · 172 likes · 19 reposts · 6 replies 31 Aug 2026 @random_walker You have tons of fans (myself included) who would love to execute some of your validated ideas if you ever wanted to make those public! 21.8K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 I use AI heavily for validating ideas and prototyping things, but I’m much more cautious about AI use for anything that I need to ultimately publish and stand behind. One unfortunate consequence of speeding up prototyping more than execution is that I now have a much bigger pile 58.5K views · 571 likes · 62 reposts · 46 replies 31 Aug 2026 This week I had the honor of speaking to Princeton’s entire incoming undergraduate class to address their AI anxieties. I had three messages for them — good news, bad news, and a note of optimism. Here’s a condensed version. The good news We have enough evidence now to conclude 288.9K views · 1.2K likes · 294 reposts · 68 replies 27 Aug 2026 There’s a big, under-appreciated reason why people may have very different experiences and opinions about using AI for work — are they using it for tasks they’re already an expert at, or tasks they can’t do themselves? The former leads to a *growth cycle* and the latter leads to 168.1K views · 305 likes · 60 reposts · 39 replies 12 Jun 2026