Ben Thompson ✓

@benthompson · Wisconsin, USA · joined 04 Dec 2006

Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @ditheringfm @sharptechpod. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.

282 319Followers

1 603Following

72 814Posts total

803.1KViews on collected posts

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Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson3 Sep

OK Gemini it’s now or never https://t.co/lG0mavLxfB 145.3K views · 1.2K likes · 40 reposts · 45 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson25 Jul

@benthompson it’s like you never left an eng org with a smart asshole. 4.1K views · 30 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson25 Jul

@benthompson At least in programming, Codex is the meticulous programmer who thinks(sometimes over the top) of edge cases and prepares for them. Claude on the other hand is the senior engineer who used to code and now discounts any objections from others as no big deal yet fixes 6.7K views · 109 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson25 Jul

@benthompson Reminds me of when I had a Gemini model refer to its conversation thread summarizer bot as a midwit 2.5K views · 23 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson25 Jul

So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate 169.9K views · 1K likes · 13 reposts · 48 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson22 Jul

@benthompson 💯 https://t.co/3QT99tXUAg 10K views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson22 Jul

@benthompson Don’t ever use Ultra. It’ll burn through everything and accomplish nothing. 9.3K views · 65 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson22 Jul

@benthompson Stop using subs you don’t control directly - they always convince the parent to modify scope 10K views · 31 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson21 Jul

Never leave Sol unattended. https://t.co/ZUUTDrhS35 315.2K views · 2.2K likes · 65 reposts · 239 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson20 Jul

Always on the lookout for this 😆 https://t.co/HepnVigyQC 11.4K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson26 Jun

Very sad news, on a human level, an industry level, and a personal level. I didn’t know Om super well, but he was one of the pioneers that made Stratechery possible. And my most vivid memory of him is some truly excellent device that he unilaterally reached out to give me right 52.2K views · 424 likes · 22 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson8 Jun

It's actually super important that the Siri demo was kind of slow, because it emphasized it was real. Would be even better if it were live, though. 66.5K views · 1.1K likes · 19 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

Ben Thompson ✓@benthompson20 Sep 2022

So, I've launched a new podcast with @andrewsharp: https://t.co/PcqzW0TUT3 0 views · 689 likes · 286 reposts · 70 replies Open on X →

Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

1 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 100K–1M follower. arriva a più persone rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione.

Visualizzazioni mediane145 270questo account5 983mediana per 100K–1M

Copertura, %51.46%questo account1.49%mediana per 100K–1M

Interazione, %0.89%questo account0.93%mediana per 100K–1M

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 100K–1M	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	145 270	5 983	24.3×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	51.46%	1.49%	34.5×
Tasso di interazione	0.89%	0.93%	0.96×

Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →

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

66.5K8 Jun

52.2K26 Jun

11.4K20 Jul

315.2K21 Jul

10K22 Jul

9.3K

10K

169.9K25 Jul

2.5K

6.7K

4.1K

145.3K3 Sep

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.67%8 Jun

0.90%26 Jun

0.13%20 Jul

0.83%21 Jul

0.35%22 Jul

0.74%

0.23%

0.65%25 Jul

0.92%

1.73%

0.75%

0.89%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes83.1%6 256 in total

Reposts2.1%161 in total

Replies5.1%382 in total

Quotes1.5%115 in total

Bookmarks8.2%616 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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