Troy Cross ✓

@thetrocro · Portland, OR · joined 06 Feb 2015

@reed_college_ @btcpolicyorg @nakamotoprojct

66 453Followers

4 567Following

44 728Posts total

69.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views4 478this account1 456median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.74%this account4.50%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.08%this account1.88%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 478	1 456	3.08×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.74%	4.50%	1.50×
Engagement rate	1.08%	1.88%	0.58×

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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

48.6K23 Oct

530

1.7K

14824 Oct

2.3K1 Sep

4.5K2 Sep

4.9K3 Sep

4.6K4 Sep

2.3K

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

1.00%23 Oct

2.83%

0.65%

2.70%24 Oct

1.59%1 Sep

0.80%2 Sep

1.50%3 Sep

0.70%4 Sep

1.09%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.88%.

What the audience does

Likes74.6%559 in total

Reposts6.1%46 in total

Replies13.4%100 in total

Quotes1.6%12 in total

Bookmarks4.3%32 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

We do not ban chemistry textbooks. Instead, we license labs and watch uranium carefully. Bomb-grade uranium is heavy and comparatively easy to track. Weights are numbers, and the only way to track them is to track everyone and their files. But this is not the American way. We 2.3K views · 21 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 It’s not the paperclips AI prompts various fears. One is of a machine, smarter than us, a runaway in the wild. In one science fiction scenario, a superintelligent machine somehow finds itself on a curious mission at odds with the values of any human operator and commandeers 4.6K views · 23 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 Chopin Nocturne I’m working on… with the cat https://t.co/Zh8LPgdRzL 4.9K views · 63 likes · 1 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 Disaster 4.5K views · 24 likes · 2 reposts · 10 replies 02 Sep 2026 Off to teach. Course description. Large language models (LLMs), in their current and more capable form anyway, are a new and consequential phenomenon. We all recognize the advent of this sometimes quirky kind of “artificial intelligence”—the kind that can write endless 2.3K views · 30 likes · 2 reposts · 5 replies 01 Sep 2026 @thetrocro Don't know why, but I have a huge soft spot for music that has a single note being repeated from beginning to end. That note takes on the color and emotion of each chord it's combined with, like a glimpse of deeper meaning... eternity, singularity. https://t.co/5XoQFE 148 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 24 Oct 2023 @thetrocro @statusquont LOve this 1.7K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 23 Oct 2023 @thetrocro Beautiful. https://t.co/VofpOBOYeC 530 views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 23 Oct 2023 Do you feel it? https://t.co/77T7oWajqr 48.6K views · 374 likes · 35 reposts · 67 replies 23 Oct 2023