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Arvind Narayanan

Arvind Narayanan

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Followers
129.3K
Posts
13.3K
Following
554
Account age
18 yrs
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📊 Post performance

802.4K
Avg views / post
6.2×
Reach vs followers
Dec 2007
On X since

🔥 Top post: While playing around with hooking up GPT-4 to the Internet, I as · 2M views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.04 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 6 image · 12 text.
Follower / following
233×
Follows 554 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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Recent posts

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🔥 Top post While playing around with hooking up GPT-4 to the Internet, I asked it about myself… and had an absolute WTF moment before realizing that I wrote a very special secret message to Bing when Sydney came out and then forgot all about it. Indirect prompt injection is gonna be WILD 2M❤ 6.6K🔁 1.1K
1) If you haven't read AI as Normal Technology, these annotated slides are probably the easiest way to get a high-level overview. https://t.co/riioI4nz5g 2) If you're already familiar with the core ideas, Part 1 of the talk is largely a s… 98.7K❤ 389🔁 75 Moments like this always remind me of this classic. 802.4K❤ 6.4K🔁 773 Huh, it looks like you can use ChatGPT to bypass some paywalls 😲 1.9M❤ 12.8K🔁 938 I know grad school is competitive, but being offered a bribe by an applicant was unexpected. I wonder how often this succeeds. ❤ 6K🔁 794 And let's face it—reading your own writing is terminally boring (when it's not nails-on-chalkboard painful). So when we edit front to back, our brains process relatively little of the text. Back-to-front editing forces the brain to work mo… ❤ 5.4K🔁 177 Most writing is way too complicated because we imagine our readers as machines who progress linearly through it, maintaining a perfect memory and understanding of everything they've read so far. Back-to-front editing helps us see how jarri… ❤ 5.7K🔁 179 15 years ago my PhD advisor taught me One Weird Trick for editing your own writing. Edit **back to front**, paragraph by paragraph. I still use it and it still surprises me how well it works. When I get my students to do it, it often blows… ❤ 89.3K🔁 10.9K If I never tweet again it's because I'm frantically switching between tabs trying to find Twitter ❤ 7.8K🔁 132 I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been puzzling over today. This is the moment I've been waiting for and I'v… ❤ 172.9K🔁 12.7K Professors at top universities are lottery winners, but rarely acknowledge the role of luck in their success. Be skeptical when they give you advice suggesting that the path they took is a repeatable one. If you aspire to an academic resea… ❤ 6.1K🔁 840 Let's make this simple: Zoom is malware. ❤ 9.1K🔁 4.9K

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2007 — 18 years ago.
👁️Averages 802.4K views per post.
📤Posts about per week.
💬20.39% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
98/100
Excellent Credibility score
99%
Real Real audience
Low Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~6.2× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (18+ years old).
  • 20.39% engagement — above the ~14.4% typical for a X account this size.

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Princeton CS prof and Director @PrincetonCITP. Coauthor of "AI Snake Oil" and "AI as Normal Technology". https://www.normaltech.ai/ Views mine.

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