John Gruber ✓

@gruber · Philadelphia · joined 01 Dec 2006

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332 972Followers

1 663Following

85 189Posts total

27.8MViews on collected posts

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John Gruber ✓@gruber27 Jun

“Om was never impressed by who someone was, what they’d previously accomplished, what grand wealth they’d garnered, or stature they’d achieved. It’s human nature to be overwhelmed by awe in the presence of great people. Om was not. To impress Om, you needed to deliver impressive 46.6K views · 330 likes · 26 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber14 Jun

How are we supposed to celebrate Dear Leader’s birthday NoKo-style if Hop Sing has no power? 18.5K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber14 Jun

Hi @PECOconnect , Our establishment is closed since last Thursday cuz we haven’t got full power and we’ve been calling for 4 days and no one has responded! Is this normal? 😰 #philadelphia #philly 28.6K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber4 Jun

All the best steakhouses in Philly are within the few blocks between Rittenhouse and Broad Street. Except, it turns out, one: The Prime Rib inside @LiveCasinoPHL. Great decor, great service, unbelievably good prime rib. I blew it by waiting a few years before trying it. https://t 26.1K views · 35 likes · 2 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber25 Apr

When Pooh-poohing results in poo-pooing the bed: https://t.co/dSx3B1R1sm 26.1K views · 56 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber20 Apr

@gruber TEMU Claude soon to work with 90’s Office Suite. Now with 20% more alt-right conspiracy theories! 471 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber20 Apr

@gruber Did you leave the bluer skies just to say this? 🤔 648 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber20 Apr

@gruber Clippy replaced with a virtual waifu 968 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber20 Apr

Why not release the plugins for the Macrohard versions of these apps first? 46.7K views · 55 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

John Gruber ✓@gruber20 Apr

Plugins for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, … coming soon 27.6M views · 55.7K likes · 6.2K reposts · 3K 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

27.6M20 Apr

46.7K

968

648

471

26.1K25 Apr

26.1K4 Jun

28.6K14 Jun

18.5K

46.6K27 Jun

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

0.24%20 Apr

0.13%

0.21%

1.08%

0.21%

0.23%25 Apr

0.17%4 Jun

0.06%14 Jun

0.09%

0.80%27 Jun

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

What the audience does

Likes77.4%56 175 in total

Reposts8.5%6 183 in total

Replies4.1%3 006 in total

Quotes0.6%413 in total

Bookmarks9.4%6 841 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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