Trevor McKendrick ✓

@TrevMcKendrick · USA · joined 16 Jul 2008

YC founder. Working on the next thing.

18 878Followers

1 703Following

7 647Posts total

2.4MViews on collected posts

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Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

The NYT could have made the headline about many industries Making it about fake college essays was a choice 308 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

It’s really problematic that so many people are determined to take a story that provided new interesting information about the world, treat it like an op-ed, attribute a dumb thesis to the op-ed, and then get angry about it. 33.1K views · 504 likes · 31 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

How does one bet on the median AI outcome: Total transformation of society but gradually over 20+ years 178 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

GOAT 764 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

@TrevMcKendrick By “American” college students, I think they mean “students at American universities” The distinction is left up to the reader 32.7K views · 1.2K likes · 17 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

@TrevMcKendrick Much though I despise the New York Times, the framing here is just "interesting bizarre story," not "AI bad." 34.2K views · 1.2K likes · 4 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

Not the first or last time a husband will start drowning in Claude attempting to explain something he thought he already deeply understood 5K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

started asking my husband questions about how photons actually work and now he’s been talking to claude for an hour and saying things like “wait this is actually fucked up.” apparently photons can be many kilometers thick? i am not buying that those things are particles at all. 44.8K views · 659 likes · 3 reposts · 47 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

@TrevMcKendrick I just can't believe colleges have been quietly graduating people doing this kind of industrial scale cheating for a decade+ Like, it confirms my decision a few years ago to devalue the credential in our hiring 16.7K views · 370 likes · 3 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick7 Sep

"AI has destroyed Kenyan jobs because American college students no longer hire them to write fake college essays" is not a framing I expected even the NYT to have https://t.co/7DlifkjLE2

2.2M views · 23K likes · 3.6K reposts · 498 replies Open on X →

Trevor McKendrick ✓@TrevMcKendrick28 Apr

https://t.co/Bw9wjpfns9 15K views · 40 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

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10 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé à plus de monde que les comptes de taille comparable.

Vues médianes24 705ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %130.87%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.41%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	24 705	924	26.7×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	130.87%	3.62%	36.1×
Taux d'engagement	1.41%	1.52%	0.93×

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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

15K28 Apr

2.2M7 Sep

16.7K

44.8K

34.2K

32.7K

764

178

33.1K

308

Last 11 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%28 Apr

1.23%7 Sep

2.32%

1.59%

0.20%

3.53%

3.80%

0.13%

0.00%

1.67%

0.97%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes78.6%27 006 in total

Reposts10.7%3 662 in total

Replies1.8%602 in total

Quotes1.4%470 in total

Bookmarks7.6%2 603 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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7 Sep

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