Shira Ovide ✓

@ShiraOvide · joined 10 Mar 2008

I write about A.I.'s ripple effects on the real world for The Washington Post. Inactive here. Reach me at shira.ovide@washpost.com or https://t.co/ovlVXe9Swu

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25.2KViews on collected posts

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Shira Ovide ✓@ShiraOvide17 Oct 2023

@ShiraOvide Our #CueCat was one of the most repurposed Internet things ever. And our team repurposed this aluminum can. https://t.co/Uw5Pd6kzuG 80 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Shira Ovide ✓@ShiraOvide16 Oct 2023

I’m hunting for people reusing tech gear in surprising ways. The stranger the better. Are you reusing VR headsets for hermit crab shells? Do you make collages from 1950s punched cards? Do you harvest Xbox parts to power cars? I made those up, but I'm ISO ingenuity. 8.5K views · 36 likes · 12 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Shira Ovide ✓@ShiraOvide2 Jun 2023

The combined time of Apple's staged product events since 2016 is the equivalent of 9+ viewings of Kenneth Branagh's 1996 "Hamlet." https://t.co/lfwTQasjTl 4.9K views · 28 likes · 8 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Shira Ovide ✓@ShiraOvide12 May 2023

Google AI in search could be great. Can't wait to try it. But it could be a Band-Aid on a structural problem: The internet is full of garbage. And Google isn't great TODAY at sorting the treasure from the trash. https://t.co/9WFiSrNWQ8 3.9K views · 23 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Shira Ovide ✓@ShiraOvide12 May 2023

How will we feel about generative AI if the killer use case is churning out one zillion ads for Facebook and Amazon? https://t.co/ao1DWulHbo 5.1K views · 12 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Shira Ovide ✓@ShiraOvide10 May 2023

Your periodic reminder that IDC estimates 22 million foldable phones will sell globally this year out of ~1.2 billion plus total phones. These devices are currently not popular at all. 2.7K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 0 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.

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2.7K10 May

5.1K12 May

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4.9K2 Jun

8.5K16 Oct

8017 Oct

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

0.48%10 May

0.37%12 May

0.77%

0.88%2 Jun

0.73%16 Oct

1.25%17 Oct

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

What the audience does

Likes61.0%111 in total

Reposts17.0%31 in total

Replies12.6%23 in total

Quotes1.6%3 in total

Bookmarks7.7%14 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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