Russell Brandom

@russellbrandom · New York, NY · joined 23 Aug 2010

AI editor at @techcrunch. The bartender says “hey, we don’t serve robots,” and the robot says, “oh but someday you will.”

11 815Followers

2 694Following

32 690Posts total

2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views346this account964median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.93%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.31%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	346	964	0.36×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.93%	3.25%	0.90×
Engagement rate	0.31%	2.01%	0.15×

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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

29227 Aug

653

46228 Aug

3463 Sep

2215 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.00%27 Aug

0.31%

1.08%28 Aug

0.29%3 Sep

0.90%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes72.7%8 in total

Replies18.2%2 in total

Bookmarks9.1%1 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

From a simpler time https://t.co/BzV9gQcU7i 221 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

The section on monitorability is particularly notable: "We see Astra has an increased ability to evade our monitors when instructing it to do so....When prompted to do so, Astra seems to be able to strategically sandbag in evaluations." 346 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

https://t.co/zFtXzrTHsw 462 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Not to downplay how impressive this is technically, but there is a real "skin suit" effect in even the most advanced AI videogen https://t.co/y37EX8DDsH 653 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

It's pretty bleak that the US government's response to a measles outbreak is to deny that anything is happening https://t.co/xE11983FmL 292 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →