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Viola Zhou

@violazhouyi · New York · joined 22 Nov 2012

reporter @restofworld covering tech and humans. formerly @viceworldnews @scmpnews. 📧 viola@restofworld.org.

15 861Followers
2 795Following
2 006Posts total
38.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Chinese models are appealing to American developers looking for more cost-efficient AI. “I don’t mind Chinese [companies] looking at my data: Hey, have fun with it. Learn and get better,” says a Dallas developer who codes with Minimax and MiMo. https://t.co/2ZD5slII3X 3.1K views · 26 likes · 7 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
Professional football players in Manila, Cairo, Chennai are being hired to annotate game footage for teams and betting platforms. Story by @rinachandran @maykelbelts https://t.co/FUXdI2nuAv 581 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@violazhouyi @restofworld First time getting quoted in a feature article 😂 46 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
during interviews I probably answered “do you use AI to write” more than 20 times. It was worth it because I got my favorite quote. https://t.co/ruPKSkdn2z https://t.co/DyeIsauWxx 969 views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
also I got to stay in Mark Zuckerberg’s old house with five cats: Future, Energy, Lucky, Mission, Vision. https://t.co/ruPKSkdn2z https://t.co/77rS5kfFmI 994 views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
I wrote about the Chinese math kids turned AI superstars, and what it’s like meeting my much smarter (and richer) classmates in Silicon Valley. https://t.co/ruPKSkdn2z via @restofworld 15.3K views · 66 likes · 20 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
RedNote is expanding into the U.S. market by hiring a growth team, running campus promotional events, and launching a cross-border shopping portal RedShop. Initial offerings are cute stuff like this sweet potato plushie and this Confucius meme tote bag (tempted to get both) htt 870 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
How AI short dramas are currently made in China: young workers, earning some $500 a month, working at 3am to generate videos on Seedance 2.0 — because the model is cheapest, fastest after midnight. Report by 36kr (in Chinese) https://t.co/jtJE6FrUyA 16.9K views · 215 likes · 19 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 851this account998median for 10K–100K
Reach, %11.67%this account3.68%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.11%this account1.63%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post1 8519981.85×
Reach (views ÷ followers)11.67%3.68%3.17×
Engagement rate1.11%1.63%0.68×

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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

16.9K31 Mar
87015 Apr
15.3K11 May
994
969
4615 May
58123 Jun
3.1K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.43%31 Mar
0.57%15 Apr
0.63%11 May
1.41%
1.34%
2.17%15 May
1.03%23 Jun
1.19%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes48.9%338 in total
Reposts7.5%52 in total
Replies2.0%14 in total
Quotes1.3%9 in total
Bookmarks40.2%278 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

6 Sep

Daily snapshots since 06 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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