Kurt Wagner

@KurtWagner8 · San Francisco · joined 21 Aug 2011

Covering social media, Facebook + X/Twitter for Bloomberg @Business. Author of “Battle for the Bird.” DMs are open. Go Seahawks. Go M’s. Signal: kurtwagner.08

34 804Followers

1 252Following

12 542Posts total

248.6KViews on collected posts

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Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner81 Jul 2025

AI-written notes will still be reviewed by humans before they show up publicly https://t.co/dpUZzqOBUB

5.2K views · 25 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner81 Jul 2025

X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network’s fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people. @KurtWagner8 https://t.co/ca00HszgzO 10.4K views · 22 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner830 Jun 2025

he did it... X has a new head of product 1.8K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner830 Jun 2025

New: Mark Zuckerberg just announced a major AI reorg internally at Meta. Everything now falls under a new group called "Meta Superintelligence Labs, which will be run by Alexandr Wang & Nat Friedman. Zuck also announced 11 new hires, including several from OpenAI & DeepMind 56.7K views · 342 likes · 25 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner828 Jun 2025

Zuckerberg’s “superintelligence” group is growing. I count seven known hires from OpenAI so far, including these four 2.6K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner828 Jun 2025

Meta Platforms Inc. has hired four notable artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI, ramping up a hiring spree for its Superintelligence group. https://t.co/IH6HwWMgZR 57K views · 225 likes · 15 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner819 Mar 2024

@KurtWagner8 I read your Bloomberg (propaganda merchants) opinion piece on Musk and thought oh interesting let's watch the interview. Just watched it, my God you are repulsive. This book is probably loaded with nonsense too. Do Lemon got creamed, and nobody would want to work wit 22 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner820 Feb 2024

@KurtWagner8 I look forward to buying and reading the book. I hope it covers: 1) How Musk skillfully and nefariously built this media platform to be a full-on sycophant for Donald Trump's hoped-for election this fall. 2) Musk is doing better than Tucker Carlson as a Kremlin messa 170 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner820 Feb 2024

@KurtWagner8 Congratulations Kurt!!!! 141 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kurt Wagner@KurtWagner820 Feb 2024

🚨 It's Pub Day 🚨 Truly ecstatic to share that my new book, "Battle for the Bird," is officially out! If you've ever cared about Twitter - or wondered "how did we get here?" - this book is for you! I hope you'll give it a read! https://t.co/8iq27105HL https://t.co/8mqfC4omMU

114.6K views · 232 likes · 40 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →

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

114.6K20 Feb

141

170

2219 Mar

57K28 Jun

2.6K

56.7K30 Jun

1.8K

10.4K1 Jul

5.2K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.28%20 Feb

2.13%

1.76%

13.64%19 Mar

0.47%28 Jun

0.31%

0.68%30 Jun

0.39%

0.32%1 Jul

0.64%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes75.2%867 in total

Reposts8.1%93 in total

Replies4.9%56 in total

Quotes3.9%45 in total

Bookmarks8.0%92 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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Frequently asked questions about @KurtWagner8

How many followers does @KurtWagner8 have?

34 804 followers.

How many posts has @KurtWagner8 published?

12 542 posts.

How do posts by @KurtWagner8 perform?

Collected posts: 10. Views: 248 568. Likes: 867.