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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers

@wtgowers · Cambridge, England · joined 10 Jan 2019

Mathematician. Professeur titulaire de la chaire Combinatoire au Collège de France. Also fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.

58 134Followers
192Following
12 074Posts total
513.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views48 606this account964median for 10K–100K
Reach, %83.61%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.66%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post48 60696450.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)83.61%3.25%25.7×
Engagement rate0.66%2.01%0.33×

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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

51.8K24 Jul
179.9K26 Jul
109.1K
4.4K
48.6K12 Aug
75.7K
5.7K
28.6K14 Aug
9.7K29 Aug

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

0.66%24 Jul
0.30%26 Jul
0.43%
0.82%
0.66%12 Aug
0.83%
1.59%
1.07%14 Aug
0.21%29 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes62.8%2 310 in total
Reposts8.2%301 in total
Replies2.5%93 in total
Quotes1.5%56 in total
Bookmarks25.0%920 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

Better late than never I suppose. https://t.co/RG3yby3nXh 9.7K views · 14 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
I'm used to politicians being innumerate, but I had hoped that Count Binface was different. Sad to see that he's just the same as all the others. https://t.co/lsfbf2ZMaL 28.6K views · 284 likes · 9 reposts · 12 replies 14 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
@wtgowers Good post! Let me propose another possible way to understand LLMs’ relative advantage: I think the problems they are solving are ones where meaningful “partial progress” is relatively unlikely. Such problems are more expensive for humans to attempt… 5.7K views · 90 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 12 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
I've just written a blog post in which I discuss the question of whether current LLMs are better at some kinds of mathematics than others, with an emphasis on "current", given how quickly the situation is developing. Link in next tweet. 75.7K views · 526 likes · 69 reposts · 24 replies 12 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
https://t.co/kVlZm03VKY 48.6K views · 263 likes · 47 reposts · 3 replies 12 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
@wtgowers I was also taken aback by the Leiden Declaration embracing a copyright maximalist position (that training models on copyrighted content without a license amounts to copyright violation) which has been rejected by several courts as well as by many independent legal exper 4.4K views · 33 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 26 Jul 2026 · Open on X →
I went to the (great) workshop in Leiden that led to the Leiden Declaration, but ended up not signing it, as it didn't really represent my views, though it wasn't too different either, so the decision wasn't an obvious one. I've explained more in a blog post. Link in next tweet. 109.1K views · 393 likes · 46 reposts · 15 replies 26 Jul 2026 · Open on X →
https://t.co/OTVQworI4O 179.9K views · 418 likes · 88 reposts · 22 replies 26 Jul 2026 · Open on X →
Leonardo Franchi, Fredy Yip and I recently solved a problem of Ben Green by showing that if A is an open product-free subset of the open interval (0,1), then A has measure less than 1/3, a bound that it is not too hard to prove is sharp. 🧵 51.8K views · 289 likes · 40 reposts · 10 replies 24 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

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