Ben Bradley

@BenBradleyTV · Chicago · joined 16 Mar 2010

5-7pm news anchor and investigative reporter @WGNNews. Tweet or email me your tips: bbradley@wgntv.com And to those who tweet at me: Try not to be terrible.

32 259Followers

1 972Following

33 278Posts total

47.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV19 Sep

Even when people on this platform are trying to be nice, they still manage to show their true self... 3.5K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV19 Sep

@BenBradleyTV @wttw Good job. Maybe Ure not a cuck after all. Y r u reporting on this. I’m shocked. 3.8K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV18 Sep

13 Chicago high schools are at least 80% empty. 35% of CPS schools are less than half-full. Should Chicago close schools? The candidates for CPS board president were asked about our reporting during a @wttw debate. https://t.co/HJ0hdZOYw2

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11.5K views · 202 likes · 60 reposts · 37 replies Open on X →

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV18 Sep

Bears blunders. The Daley years. The parking meter deal. Mistakes I've made. The sinners & scoundrels I've covered. And the suspected porn palace where this podcast is produced. We covered a lot of ground - & had a lot of laughs - on @mcgannpat's podcast! https://t.co/m55Ivgl9UW 1.9K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV16 Sep

This is the story of how a quick kiss caught on camera renewed questions about the $750M per year Illinois taxpayers spend on 1,400 townships. @WGNNews https://t.co/1XmPEMSCzz

1:57

4.2K views · 42 likes · 9 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV16 Sep

@BenBradleyTV So he was prepared for the hearing. You’re against preparedness? Turns out you’re just another liberal hack ‘journalist’. 378 views · 54 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV15 Sep

@BenBradleyTV Crazy because I could’ve take a call today at any point & just popped off about 100 “attack lines” geared at Dick Durbin. He’s held office longer than I’ve been alive. 784 views · 94 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV15 Sep

@BenBradleyTV Did Durbin have pre planned attack lines or do we use different terminology when Dems do it. 437 views · 52 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ben Bradley@BenBradleyTV15 Sep

The FBI director went to today's hearing with pre-planned attack lines against Illinois' senior U.S. Senator Dick Durbin... 20.7K views · 62 likes · 13 reposts · 231 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views3 478this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %10.78%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.54%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 478	924	3.76×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	10.78%	3.62%	2.98×
Engagement rate	1.54%	1.52%	1.01×

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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

20.7K15 Sep

437

784

37816 Sep

4.2K

1.9K18 Sep

11.5K

3.8K19 Sep

3.5K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.54%15 Sep

12.36%

12.12%

14.55%16 Sep

1.41%

0.38%18 Sep

2.69%

0.05%19 Sep

0.66%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes55.4%531 in total

Reposts8.7%83 in total

Replies29.6%284 in total

Quotes2.7%26 in total

Bookmarks3.6%35 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.

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