Alec MacGillis ✓

@AlecMacGillis · Baltimore via Pittsfield, Mass · joined 14 Dec 2011

@ProPublica. Author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC.

79 728Followers

9 265Following

88 852Posts total

15.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 541this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.93%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.76%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 541	2 751	0.56×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.93%	9.00%	0.21×
Engagement rate	0.76%	1.65%	0.46×

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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

1.3K2 Sep

2.9K

8.8K

1.4K

1.5K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.47%2 Sep

1.14%

0.23%

0.76%

1.36%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes56.2%59 in total

Reposts21.9%23 in total

Replies5.7%6 in total

Quotes2.9%3 in total

Bookmarks13.3%14 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.

Latest posts

"Gov. Josh Shapiro was all-in, fast-tracking approvals for the enormous Amazon data center and offering incentives to bring data centers to old industrial hubs like Pittsburgh...But now, things have shifted." Good @dgelles piece: https://t.co/Ha0zXUefVU 1.5K views · 16 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 An AI-based private-school chain: "Just 1 year after the state rejected its charter school application, Alpha has quadrupled its Texas private schools, w/ >30 virtual and in-person campuses, most which were accepted into the voucher program." @LChurchilll: https://t.co/vtSUts1 1.4K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 "There are now 74 underground schools in Ukraine, a stark measure of the drawn-out nature of the war and a campaign of Russian bombardment that is only escalating more than 4 years in. 'It’s impossible to get an education now without going underground.'" https://t.co/0WtJqZkR28 8.8K views · 12 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Lorenza Temaj Jiguan entered US illegally in 2009. She married a US citizen, had 2 kids. She obtained a waiver in 2025 affirming that if she went back to Guatemala to apply for a visa she could return. She left in May and applied. Now she can't come back. https://t.co/DJpV8Zg7L6 2.9K views · 18 likes · 10 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 “A human community if it is to last long, must exert a... centripetal force, holding local soil and memory in place. Practically speaking, human society has no work more important...When a community loses its memory, its members no longer know each other." https://t.co/FSZuLE4Vh0 1.3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026