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Toby Pohlen

Toby Pohlen

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Followers
218.9K
Posts
937
Following
619
Account age
13 yrs
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Known for

📊 Post performance

1.4M
Avg views / post
6.3×
Reach vs followers
Dec 2012
On X since

🔥 Top post: Creating a scalable API from scratch was a massive effort. Here · 14.6M views

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.18 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 2 video · 3 image · 13 text.
Follower / following
354×
Follows 619 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
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A paid X Premium (Blue) verified account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Creating a scalable API from scratch was a massive effort. Here are some of my favourite engineering highlights. 14.6M❤ 4.4K🔁 502
Photo 214.5K❤ 2.5K🔁 161 The root cause of the AWS outage will be something incredibly stupid. Like a config file that has been copied unmodified for 15 years looking like: expiration_date: 2025-10-22 # Infinite future 123.8K❤ 2.5K🔁 89 I designed the @xai logo. The "i" in the first version was slightly slanted (loosely inspired by the columns of the Parthenon). Because it rendered poorly at lower resolutions I quickly updated it the current design. Tons of designers got … 144.2K❤ 2K🔁 226 Our official Grok 4 blog post 316.1K❤ 2.3K🔁 369 Many people fail to appreciate that the engineering objective isn't just to make this work. They're making this work at volume production scale, low cost, and production-level reliability. It's infinitely harder than creating a one-off pro… 145.4K❤ 3.2K🔁 268 Sounds enticing? Join us! Looking specifically for experienced C++/Rust backend engineers for https://t.co/XVpe1AGGss and the API in the bay area: https://t.co/QAdP9HbZPR The first interview only takes 15 minutes. Here are some of my reti… 2.1M❤ 2.7K🔁 726 Here's a brain dump of things I worry/think about atm. AI is getting pretty good, but human-AI bandwidth is excruciatingly low. Compared to Google Search, AI queries and answers have lower entropy and higher latency, which negatively impa… 1.2M❤ 2.7K🔁 702 Our biggest challenge will be to sustain this trend. Success is measured as area under the curve. 1.6M❤ 2.2K🔁 539 A few days before we announced @xai, Elon invited the founding team and our partners to Starbase. This is also where we agreed on our mission statement. In the evening we all had an amazing dinner together and talked about engineering unti… 87.4K❤ 2.9K🔁 197 We have a similar feature on our API console. The CMD+K menu is actually connected to Grok and it allows you to get stuff done more quickly. (video is sped up) 1.8M❤ 2.5K🔁 679 You can now try Grok 3 for free here on X and on https://t.co/XVpe1AG8CU. We also released a blog post with benchmarks and examples. 1.4M❤ 4.1K🔁 897 Grok always knows what's up. 4.6M❤ 5.2K🔁 1.3K

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined X in 2012 — 13 years ago.
👁️Averages 1.4M views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
💬1.69% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated
83/100
Excellent Credibility score
93%
Real Real audience
Low Fake-follower risk
High Data confidence
  • Est. 93% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~6.3× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (13+ years old).
  • 1.69% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.

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

About

Sleeping. Previously founding team @xAI, engineer @GoogleDeepMind. @RWTH alumnus.

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