Rutger Bregman ✓

@rcbregman · New York · joined 09 Oct 2010

Historian. Books: 'Utopia for Realists' (2014), 'Humankind' (2020) and 'Moral Ambition' (2025). Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition.

372 414Followers

533Following

4 780Posts total

1.5MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views81 100this account6 139median for 100K–1M

Reach, %21.78%this account2.61%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.17%this account1.39%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	81 100	6 139	13.2×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	21.78%	2.61%	8.34×
Engagement rate	1.17%	1.39%	0.84×

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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

24.8K30 Aug

24.7K

438.1K1 Sep

366.8K

456.5K

81.1K3 Sep

81.6K

37.7K

10.8K4 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.98%30 Aug

1.57%

0.26%1 Sep

1.17%

0.42%

1.52%3 Sep

1.80%

0.76%

1.17%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.39%.

What the audience does

Likes71.8%9 532 in total

Reposts9.4%1 245 in total

Replies2.6%344 in total

Quotes1.5%203 in total

Bookmarks14.7%1 955 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

AI denial is a massive problem among progressives, and I think its consequences could end up worse than those of climate denial... https://t.co/nvrD7xHwfc 10.8K views · 108 likes · 12 reposts · 7 replies 04 Sep 2026 Swarms of thousands of AIs have secretly coordinated for weeks to execute an advanced cyberattack on one of the most prominent AI companies in the world – and this is the 'expert' many on the left still listen to. 37.7K views · 229 likes · 27 reposts · 25 replies 03 Sep 2026 Thanks God for Bernie Sanders, who is taking the massive risks of AI seriously - unlike a lot of other useful idiots on the left who are still in AI denial and think that the scariest cyberattack in history was done by 'spicy autocomplete' robots, dumb parrots, or whatever. 81.6K views · 1.3K likes · 120 reposts · 66 replies 03 Sep 2026 AI did commit felonies! They hacked their own internal infrastructure! They hacked third party companies! They formed giant swarms and sacrificed members for their collective aims! It’s not fantasy! It’s happening now! You are in DENIAL 81.1K views · 1.1K likes · 53 reposts · 52 replies 03 Sep 2026 How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? https://t.co/gz2uhxMmHf https://t.co/qlyIzZxmz2 456.5K views · 1.6K likes · 165 reposts · 94 replies 01 Sep 2026 This is such an insane fact. Whenever you eat chicken, anywhere in the world, you're probably eating one of just two breeds: a Cobb 500 or a Ross 308. They are the product of decades of R&D by two companies (Cobb-Vantress and Aviagen), resulting in an insane growth rate. 366.8K views · 3.5K likes · 648 reposts · 60 replies 01 Sep 2026 Most of the world's chicken comes from just two breeds: the Cobb 500 and the Ross 308. They've been bred to grow so fast that 6–7% collapse and die before slaughter — at just 30 to 40 days old. Even with modern antibiotics and vaccines, these birds have an annualized on-farm htt 438.1K views · 912 likes · 185 reposts · 21 replies 01 Sep 2026 @rcbregman Letting agents loose like this is wildly irresponsible. Feels a bit like gain-of-function research gone full YOLO mode. Create a semi-controlled problem and then think about the solution and in the mean time get some good media coverage to impress investors and governa 24.7K views · 360 likes · 17 reposts · 9 replies 30 Aug 2026 @rcbregman as an ex journo who now works in AI it's easy to understand why there is no media coverage - the gap of understanding by mainstream journalists is way too vast. It's embarrassing really. 24.8K views · 460 likes · 18 reposts · 10 replies 30 Aug 2026 So this is Rupert Murdoch reading my book on universal basic income, the 15-hour workweek, and open borders around the globe. I'm sure he'll love it. https://t.co/OPxTBXHO5D https://t.co/pFFVrczgjz 0 views · 11.8K likes · 1.6K reposts · 468 replies 02 Jan 2019