Martin Fowler ✓

@martinfowler · Boston · joined 09 Oct 2008

Author on Software Development. Works for Thoughtworks. Also hikes, watches theater, and plays modern board games. He/him.

357 278Followers

160Following

10 714Posts total

126.8KViews on collected posts

Derniers posts

Martin Fowler ✓@martinfowler17 Sep

NEW POST I see AI and LLMs as bringing a mix of boons and banes, but one feeling dominates: not just are they pretending to be a person, but the kind of person I don't like. https://t.co/8OUKX5OWde 74.3K views · 894 likes · 102 reposts · 29 replies Open on X →

Martin Fowler ✓@martinfowler16 Sep

Fragments: two worrying explanations around the RubyGems hack, agents aren't so much super-intelligent as super-persistent, Uncle Bob's harness is obviated, regulation of AI and competition with China https://t.co/yxd8D4TjM7 13.4K views · 47 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Martin Fowler ✓@martinfowler15 Sep

NEW POST Sumeet Gayathri Moghe finds many folks building presentations get tangled in building slides without a coherent narrative. He advises distilling the big idea, visualizing the audience, and building a structured storyline. https://t.co/wR6weYfPVu 13.6K views · 80 likes · 8 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Martin Fowler ✓@martinfowler9 Sep

NEW POST A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. https://t.co/o844MB9KUE 12.8K views · 30 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Martin Fowler ✓@martinfowler8 Sep

Fragments: dealing with AI's counterfeit utility, exasperated readers of LLMs, missing Creating Passionate Users, agents lack Verum Factum, three people making key decisions on AI https://t.co/I41lp61VCL 12.7K views · 36 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Face aux comptes de taille comparable

5 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 100K–1M abonnés. diffusé largement, mais peu de ces spectateurs réagissent.

Vues médianes13 356ce compte6 650médiane pour 100K–1M

Portée, %3.74%ce compte1.67%médiane pour 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.45%ce compte0.99%médiane pour 100K–1M

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 100K–1M	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	13 356	6 650	2.01×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	3.74%	1.67%	2.24×
Taux d'engagement	0.45%	0.99%	0.45×

Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →

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

12.7K8 Sep

12.8K9 Sep

13.6K15 Sep

13.4K16 Sep

74.3K17 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.32%8 Sep

0.30%9 Sep

0.68%15 Sep

0.45%16 Sep

1.40%17 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.99%.

What the audience does

Likes51.9%1 087 in total

Reposts6.2%129 in total

Replies1.9%39 in total

Quotes0.8%16 in total

Bookmarks39.4%825 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.