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Ryan Peterman

@ryanlpeterman · nyc / sf · joined 25 Feb 2017

Quit my job to build the podcast & ergonomic keyboard I wish existed • ex-software engineer @instagram, @meta • See what I'm building here ↓

28 884Followers
463Following
3 395Posts total
369.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views7 408this account964median for 10K–100K
Reach, %25.65%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.68%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post7 4089647.68×
Reach (views ÷ followers)25.65%3.25%7.89×
Engagement rate0.68%2.01%0.34×

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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

175.2K3 Feb
51.1K
4K
1.9K
2K
95.5K3 Sep
5K
7.4K
9.7K
1.5K4 Sep
5.3K
10.6K

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

0.39%3 Feb
0.60%
0.50%
0.59%
0.71%
0.76%3 Sep
0.68%
0.54%
0.73%
0.07%4 Sep
1.10%
0.44%

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

What the audience does

Likes71.8%1 834 in total
Reposts1.1%29 in total
Replies5.5%141 in total
Quotes0.4%10 in total
Bookmarks21.2%542 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

How the ergo keyboard sounds, I put DJI mics in between to capture As silent as a laptop keyboard https://t.co/pMJDTwXCn1 10.6K views · 40 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Kickstarter milestone: First functional trial production unit arrived! Still lots of testing and polishing before mass production run Excited for this step towards making the product come to life. Full written update coming soon on https://t.co/hVnbAMLCqa https://t.co/YvxEKCAvv7 5.3K views · 50 likes · 0 reposts · 9 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Mostly good news in this thread, AI lets interns handle more open-ended tasks and get more substantial work done I can also imagine it saves the intern managers a bunch of time from specifying all the technical details out 1.5K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@ryanlpeterman > showing exactly where to make the changes Wish I had this when I interned at Palantir. I was basically dropped into the codebase and told to figure out everything myself. 9.7K views · 69 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@ryanlpeterman generally a lot of open ended work this year involving research, proposing direction, running and learning from experiments. i had interns both last year and this. the 3 months long project my intern did in summer 2025 could probably be completed with good use of 7.4K views · 39 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@ryanlpeterman with amazon, mainly just the scope is larger and there exists more system design components. or, we just get put on the team as a normal engineer working on tickets 5K views · 34 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
What does a FAANG intern project look like these days? When I worked at Instagram, intern projects were detailed task by task showing exactly where to make the changes The latest models could one shot these specs that used to take ~2 months for an onboarding intern 95.5K views · 695 likes · 3 reposts · 24 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@ryanlpeterman Hell yeah 2K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Feb 2026 · Open on X →
@ryanlpeterman Really excited for the keyboard and the podcast was already great! Onwards and upwards 🚀 1.9K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Feb 2026 · Open on X →
@ryanlpeterman Really excited for you Ryan! Big fan of the pod 4K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Feb 2026 · Open on X →
I quit the best job I ever had to try and build what I wish existed in the world. Two projects I'm working on now: 1. The Peterman Pod - When I first started at Meta, the career stories of incredible engineers always inspired me. I aim to share transparent career stories that I 51.1K views · 260 likes · 10 reposts · 35 replies 03 Feb 2026 · Open on X →
https://t.co/VcQPbDXhUE 175.2K views · 604 likes · 15 reposts · 63 replies 03 Feb 2026 · Open on X →

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