Tim O'Reilly ✓

@timoreilly · Oakland, CA · joined 27 Mar 2007

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold. Didn't pay for a blue check, cannot make it go away

4 452 772Followers

2 148Following

47 131Posts total

679.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly16 Sep

This post is very much worth reading, and reflects my own assessment of the situation quite well. https://t.co/9RDr0RtH4C 91.1K views · 47 likes · 9 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly16 Sep

Takeaways from last week's Live with Tim conversation with Anthropic interpretability researcher Emmanuel Ameisen. https://t.co/b1aXHGjSQ1 P.S. This morning, I'll be in conversation with Superpowers creator Jesse Vincent. 37.6K views · 69 likes · 8 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly15 Sep

I'm really looking forward to my conversation with my old friend Jesse Vincent tomorrow. We'll talk about Superpowers and where Jesse has gone since then, why he has written a therapist for AI agents, and why it's better to treat agents as colleagues than as assistants. 39K views · 72 likes · 8 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly9 Sep

About to go live with @mlpowered to talk about the "neuroscience of AI." https://t.co/3epL5MdsO7 Join for free. 49.4K views · 110 likes · 7 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly28 Aug

@timoreilly @StevenLevy Sometimes you don’t even get that 55 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly27 Aug

I made an offhand comment about AI for writing in my recent interview with @stevenlevy. A number of people have commented on that, so I wrote more about it. AI is a medium, and you get out of it what you put into it. https://t.co/rsRQiCHGeM 106.9K views · 96 likes · 51 reposts · 21 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly8 Aug

Simply marvelous: "The mind, according to Henri Bergson, is like a ‘single sentence that was begun at the first awakening of consciousness, a sentence strewn with commas but in no place cut by a period’." https://t.co/rCeYhWYoEd 97.2K views · 71 likes · 56 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly8 Aug

An alternate hypothesis about the shakeup at DeepMind. https://t.co/OB9IButt3t https://t.co/doZfUzB7hr

141.9K views · 333 likes · 75 reposts · 33 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly28 Jul

I haven't seen a lot of discussion on how much Christopher Nolan's view of Odysseus and the narrative of his movie is shaped by Tennyson's 1841 poem Ulysses rather than by The Odyssey itself. Check it out and let me know what you think https://t.co/kasqFzv2I4 60.8K views · 72 likes · 10 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Tim O'Reilly ✓@timoreilly12 Jul

My post for The Economist reflects on Elon Musk's escape from the bounds of shareholder capitalism through the lens of Hirschman's marvelous history of pre-capitalism, The Passions and the Interests: "Before anyone claimed that markets were efficient, political thinkers claimed 55.7K views · 110 likes · 44 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views60 804this account14 648median for 1M–10M

Reach, %1.37%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %0.16%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	60 804	14 648	4.15×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.37%	0.74%	1.85×
Engagement rate	0.16%	0.70%	0.23×

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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

55.7K12 Jul

60.8K28 Jul

141.9K8 Aug

97.2K

106.9K27 Aug

5528 Aug

49.4K9 Sep

39K15 Sep

37.6K16 Sep

91.1K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.31%12 Jul

0.16%28 Jul

0.32%8 Aug

0.15%

0.16%27 Aug

0.00%28 Aug

0.26%9 Sep

0.24%15 Sep

0.22%16 Sep

0.07%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.

What the audience does

Likes51.6%980 in total

Reposts14.1%268 in total

Replies7.5%142 in total

Quotes0.9%18 in total

Bookmarks25.9%492 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

19 Sep22 Sep

Daily snapshots since 19 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.