The Alex Nowrasteh ✓

@AlexNowrasteh · Washington, DC · joined 10 Dec 2009

Senior VP for Policy @CatoInstitute. “One-man factory” - @anncoulter. Dadx3. All tweets are peer reviewed.

34 835Followers

998Following

133 440Posts total

85.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views5 491this account3 808median for 10K–100K

Reach, %15.76%this account12.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.82%this account1.37%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 491	3 808	1.44×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.76%	12.23%	1.29×
Engagement rate	0.82%	1.37%	0.60×

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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

48K3 Sep

19.4K

5.5K

1.9K

2.1K

7.6K

1.4K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.37%3 Sep

0.82%

0.47%

1.93%

4.01%

4.85%

0.57%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.37%.

What the audience does

Likes75.1%667 in total

Reposts6.2%55 in total

Replies12.6%112 in total

Quotes3.2%28 in total

Bookmarks2.9%26 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

Silly me, I thought this corruption plot was obviously a metaphor for Trump. Turns out it was about something unrelated & vague. Is there a type of fallacy where people ignore obvious real problems and focus on ~fake distant ones, using evidence of the former to inform the h 1.4K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 More evidence for the "every argument against immigration is also an argument against having children" file. 7.6K views · 328 likes · 23 reposts · 17 replies 03 Sep 2026 They literally are not. 2.1K views · 73 likes · 3 reposts · 7 replies 03 Sep 2026 Too much anti-natalism around here, am I right? 1.9K views · 31 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 Many portions of the country are literally being taken over by foreign blocks with power 5.5K views · 20 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 David Mamet, writing for @NRO, and not happily. We are clearly of kindred minds. https://t.co/1KXZcomfhG 19.4K views · 119 likes · 17 reposts · 13 replies 03 Sep 2026 This is deceptive. If immigrants have a slightly lower crime rate than natives, they will mathematically lower the *RATE* while increasing the number of crimes. Those crimes are a cost to society and especially their victims. They are crimes that otherwise would not have been 48K views · 89 likes · 7 reposts · 70 replies 03 Sep 2026 Sign up for my new substack where I will write long deep dives, book reviews, and analyses of economics, social science, immigration, and other subjects. Price of $0 https://t.co/KSzTYwaX8b 0 views · 163 likes · 14 reposts · 109 replies 15 Dec 2022