David Perell ✓

@david_perell · New York, NY · joined 19 Jan 2011

"The Writing Guy" | Christian | Host: How I Write Podcast | I tweet about writing, beauty, and architecture | My writing: https://t.co/SOE9HtxXdi

479 760Followers

845Following

36 319Posts total

1.5MViews on collected posts

Posts recentes

David Perell ✓@david_perell5 Sep

Visited an Edgar Miller home in Chicago today, who’s hands down one of America’s most under-rated architects https://t.co/uyaJTscx6v 14.7K views · 95 likes · 3 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell3 Sep

@david_perell A nepo baby who went to a kindergarten that costs 30k usd a year has wisdom apparently 545 views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell2 Sep

How I Write wouldn't be possible without the support of Alpha School. Years ago, Alpha's founder @jliemandt said to me: "You can build the best writing podcast in the world, and I'm here to help." That spirit defines everything at Alpha. It's a place where students are 5.5K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell2 Sep

Watch the full interview on YouTube https://t.co/FasN4VjUkK 11.1K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell2 Sep

Links... Apple: https://t.co/HTv2nhkpAc Spotify: https://t.co/09VNhHpGoX 8.8K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell2 Sep

R.F. Kuang has written seven books, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and trained at some of the world's top universities: Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. Her wisdom-per-word ratio is also off the charts. Some highlights from our conversation: 1) Emotions are like colors. Mix 544.5K views · 2.5K likes · 300 reposts · 34 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell27 Aug

We don't write much on buildings anymore. Architecture used to be more symbolic, and our highest ideas were expressed in words and images. So what happened? One explanation is that in the early 20th century, there was an explicit movement to get rid of ornamentation on https:/ 17.1K views · 94 likes · 4 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell26 Aug

@tedgioia Spent 10 minutes with Codex and mocked up an alternative Guggenehim ticket https://t.co/ORMe25fjC3 23.9K views · 304 likes · 4 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell26 Aug

Matt Haig is famous for writing "The Midnight Library" which sold more than 10 million copies and has more than 2.5 million reviews on Goodreads. He unapologetically writes for a big audience. That's a taboo thing to say in the writing world even though basically every writer ht 20.5K views · 92 likes · 9 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell26 Aug

@david_perell Reminds me of @frank_chimero’s idea that great design is a generous act, making something more beautiful than it strictly needs to be. I agree it feels like we’ve lost some of that collective aspiration to generosity 12K views · 335 likes · 26 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell26 Aug

My friend @tedgioia wrote a great piece about this a few years ago. I got the carnival and Japanese train ticket examples from him. https://t.co/fHwRSnSGKf 47.3K views · 313 likes · 26 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell26 Aug

The decline of beauty in everyday life shows up in even the smallest things, like tickets, where we’ve let our obsession with efficiency win out over personality and artistic expression. Like the ticket from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, which I've shared in the first https 787K views · 10.1K likes · 1.1K reposts · 154 replies Open on X →

David Perell ✓@david_perell25 Aug

Our kids will ask themselves if something was written before 2023 whenever they read because it’ll go down as the last year in human history when you could basically guarantee anything you read was written by a human, not a machine 28K views · 269 likes · 23 reposts · 38 replies Open on X →

Em comparação com contas do mesmo porte

13 posts dos últimos 90 dias, ao lado da faixa de 100K–1M seguidores. aparece para mais gente do que contas do mesmo porte.

Mediana de visualizações17 145esta conta5 983mediana para 100K–1M

Alcance, %3.57%esta conta1.49%mediana para 100K–1M

Engajamento, %0.73%esta conta0.93%mediana para 100K–1M

Métrica	Esta conta	Mediana para 100K–1M	Proporção
Mediana de visualizações por post	17 145	5 983	2.87×
Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores)	3.57%	1.49%	2.40×
Taxa de engajamento	0.73%	0.93%	0.78×

Outras contas desta faixa → Comparar com outra conta → Como estas referências são construídas →

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

28K25 Aug

787K26 Aug

47.3K

12K

20.5K

23.9K

17.1K27 Aug

544.5K2 Sep

8.8K

11.1K

5.5K

5453 Sep

14.7K5 Sep

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.22%25 Aug

1.45%26 Aug

0.73%

3.05%

0.58%

1.34%

0.72%27 Aug

0.53%2 Sep

0.11%

0.17%

0.18%

2.75%3 Sep

0.73%5 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes66.6%14 188 in total

Reposts7.0%1 492 in total

Replies1.4%289 in total

Quotes0.8%161 in total

Bookmarks24.3%5 170 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.

Posts recentes

Em comparação com contas do mesmo porte

Growth & engagement

Views per post

Engagement rate per post

What the audience does

Contas semelhantes