Erik Hersman ✓

@whiteafrican · Nairobi, Kenya · joined 21 Sep 2007

I build stuff in Africa. Co-founder of @GridlessCompute and @nodeNBO (founder @iHub, @ushahidi, @brcknet)

109 671Followers

2 255Following

26 496Posts total

12.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Erik Hersman ✓@whiteafrican3 Sep

Genuinely impressed by QVAC. Still think it’s one of @tether’s best efforts. 2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Erik Hersman ✓@whiteafrican2 Sep

Fitting that the image on this article for grid balancing is of bitcoin miners. Defining that good “grid” citizenship by three obligations: - First, an AI factory should do no harm to the grid. - Second, it should offer flexibility when the system is stressed. -Third, it 1.3K views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Erik Hersman ✓@whiteafrican31 Aug

Except. Keep it local. 2.3K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Erik Hersman ✓@whiteafrican31 Aug

Every "summarize this page" extension ships your reading to someone else's server. This one doesn't. Offline TL;DR runs the model on your machine. https://t.co/yUjqlNrCVx 2.6K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Erik Hersman ✓@whiteafrican31 Aug

Why Open Source Matters for AI “Swap out Netscape and Microsoft for OpenAI and Anthropic in this story, and perhaps you can see the echoes.” https://t.co/aDLDpZ650e 1.8K views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Erik Hersman ✓@whiteafrican30 Aug

Fascinating read. 2.6K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views2 134this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.95%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.33%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	2 134	5 983	0.36×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.95%	1.49%	1.31×
Engagement rate	0.33%	0.93%	0.35×

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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

2.6K30 Aug

1.8K31 Aug

2.6K

2.3K

1.3K2 Sep

2K3 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.19%30 Aug

0.72%31 Aug

0.45%

0.13%

1.15%2 Sep

0.20%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes71.7%43 in total

Reposts8.3%5 in total

Replies5.0%3 in total

Quotes1.7%1 in total

Bookmarks13.3%8 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.

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