Brendan Quinn

@BFQuinn · Detroit, via Philadelphia · joined 12 Nov 2010

Sportswriter for @TheAthletic | Ad astra per alas porci

29 310Followers

1 557Following

66 397Posts total

239.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views13 711this account1 756median for 10K–100K

Reach, %46.78%this account5.38%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.15%this account1.75%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	13 711	1 756	7.81×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	46.78%	5.38%	8.70×
Engagement rate	0.15%	1.75%	0.08×

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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

189.4K29 Oct

16.3K18 May

5K23 May

4.6K28 May

10.2K29 May

13.7K6 Jul

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.11%29 Oct

0.31%18 May

0.18%23 May

0.28%28 May

0.44%29 May

0.15%6 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.75%.

What the audience does

Likes62.3%278 in total

Reposts7.8%35 in total

Replies2.9%13 in total

Quotes3.6%16 in total

Bookmarks23.3%104 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

*very biased* but this is awesome 13.7K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 06 Jul 2026 How good is Michael? Even his throwaway — *hey everyone, i have a public job so i have to tell you i got screwed by corporate mongrels** — note is as clever, and sincere, and smart, and endearing as anything you'll read today. He's the best. 10.2K views · 42 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 29 May 2026 thirty-some-odd years after spending childhood days annoying Phil in the SJU basketball office, I joined him for an episode of his podcast. life if funny. 4.6K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 28 May 2026 The Athletic's Brendan Quinn joined the show! The senior writer for The Athletic hopped on to recap the PGA Championship at Aronimink, detailed his writing origins, and shared stories growing up on Hawk Hill on the latest #MakeADifference WATCH: https://t.co/bi8bwPSn1C https:// 5K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 23 May 2026 Followed yesterday’s final pairing at Aronimink on a lonely walk through the long shadows of missed opportunity. Aaron Rai got his Cinderella story. Alex Smalley and Matti Schmid didn’t. On what was, what might’ve been, and how lives change… Free read: https://t.co/Vyj3vMu63o h 16.3K views · 46 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 18 May 2026 A new story I'm pretty pumped to share. It's about words, and pastimes, and changing your traumas by changing your patterns. On Matt Berninger, and the baseballs of writing: https://t.co/6R6RcJ4cZu 189.4K views · 152 likes · 27 reposts · 11 replies 29 Oct 2025