Becker Friedman Institute for Economics

@BeckerFriedman · Chicago, Illinois · joined 22 Nov 2011

The Becker Friedman Institute @UChicago supports inquiry on significant economic and policy questions. RT/Follow ≠ endorsement.

43 674Followers

9 399Following

19 696Posts total

14.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 188this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.72%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.28%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 188	2 896	0.41×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.72%	9.51%	0.29×
Engagement rate	0.28%	1.56%	0.18×

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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

10.1K28 May

9901 Sep

1.2K

1.4K

1.2K2 Sep

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

0.16%28 May

0.20%1 Sep

0.00%

0.36%

0.59%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes56.1%23 in total

Reposts7.3%3 in total

Replies9.8%4 in total

Bookmarks26.8%11 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

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