Brian Brushwood ✓
@shwood · Austin, TX · joined 04 May 2008
Host of Discovery’s “Scam School” - Nat Geo’s “Hacking the System” - “Modern Rogue” on YouTube - and (my favorite) the podcast “World’s Greatest Con”
1 360 472Followers
661 128Following
99 227Posts total
2.1MViews on collected posts
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I am 100% certain that we're all missing out on the latest secret productivity moves. So let's form an Underground Productivity Fight Club this Saturday morning: https://t.co/sGZ01i9JPb ...Let's cut through the noise and only share the very best good stuff!
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Welcome to Modern Rogue World Headquarters! Make yourself at home. This guy did. https://t.co/p69cvMoi9S
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We Watched the Original Battlestar Galactica And... (Cordkillers #619) https://t.co/y5XEDJLuWH
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https://t.co/ZyGg0BFQlF https://t.co/8YezCMhgtw
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I'm trying something new. "Underground Productivity Fight Club #1" Is this Saturday, 11am Central. You in? https://t.co/upjWA58miw
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Hey @JustinRYoung : remember that time we did original field research and it made the news? https://t.co/8k4begj8k0
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A special guest at Modern Rogue HQ today! https://t.co/cPjBJC9WFs
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We Built a Lip-Reading Creeperbot That Can Spy on Your Conversations: https://t.co/ZyGg0BFQlF
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Scientists unleash mice with 50% human brains... We're so close to apocalypse bingo! https://t.co/2PW5P8yO93
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I just finished the second episode of Widows Bay. Holy shit this show rules.
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haha-- honestly, I can see masks making a comeback
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We tested it. It's real. https://t.co/ZyGg0BFQlF
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@shwood The ideal outfit this summer! https://t.co/7n4F85QqUU
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Flock Cameras Can Read Your Lips From Very Far Away: https://t.co/ZyGg0BFQlF
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Too good to not show up in this week’s @Cordkillers
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Here's how they're made! 19 slots left, and 99 days to Christmas! https://t.co/8PiZJv7eir
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They're BACK for a limited time! Hand-crafted Alex Rangel coin rings in time for Christmas. only 20 available. Order now for delivery by Dec 9:
https://t.co/WhHa1zppQ9
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Weird Things Podcast #998 - We Tell You The Future https://t.co/rwWXDCD8vJ
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Are LG TV's straight-up spying on us? https://t.co/S85QbHvKDB
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HAPPY DREAMCAST ANNIVERSARY!!! 9.9.99 FOREVER!
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Does knowing the trick ruin it? https://t.co/OMgA2yQ9D0
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Do Gen Z'ers have this blind spot? Would this scam work? https://t.co/IRtLbucBqI
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Massive thanks to everyone who came out to the Social Engineering 101 event at dragon con last night!! Now I’ve got a day off… who should I see here?
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Aha! Consider this everyone's reminder: If it's been a minute since you listened to World's Greatest Con, we've got new episodes in your RSS feed and at https://t.co/HsEltQkiKB
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Against accounts of the same size
39 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views29 991this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %2.20%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.08%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 29 991 | 14 648 | 2.05× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 2.20% | 0.74% | 2.98× |
| Engagement rate | 0.08% | 0.70% | 0.12× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
16.1K20 Sep
71.9K
39.8K
17.4K21 Sep
12.4K
1.5K
8.2K22 Sep
10.7K
9.3K
18.4K
11.1K
15.2K
30.2K23 Sep
10.6K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.06%20 Sep
0.26%
0.10%
0.15%21 Sep
0.06%
0.27%
0.15%22 Sep
0.10%
0.03%
0.47%
0.07%
0.06%
0.60%23 Sep
0.05%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes76.7%920 in total
Reposts8.4%101 in total
Replies8.1%97 in total
Quotes1.8%22 in total
Bookmarks5.0%60 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
22 Sep
Daily snapshots since 22 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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