Brett MacDonald ✓

@BrettAMacDonald · MA to WV · joined 25 May 2011

Founder & Publisher @NerveDotNews | signals, political theory, AI

23 779Followers

1 001Following

19 211Posts total

1.5MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views512this account3 808median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.15%this account12.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.71%this account1.37%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	512	3 808	0.13×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.15%	12.23%	0.18×
Engagement rate	0.71%	1.37%	0.52×

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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

20K7 Jan

7012 Sep

1.5M

512

4733 Sep

10.7K

308

392

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.44%7 Jan

0.71%2 Sep

0.69%

0.59%

0.21%3 Sep

1.08%

0.97%

2.55%

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

What the audience does

Likes73.6%8 785 in total

Reposts5.5%653 in total

Replies2.6%313 in total

Quotes4.6%549 in total

Bookmarks13.7%1 638 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

Average German argument online involving "legal calibrated cup sizes" at restaurants 392 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 This guy wants our country to fail and probably always has. 308 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Bannon said he was looking past his disagreements with progressives on issues such as immigration because AI will be the defining issue of the future. “If we don’t get this right, none of that other stuff is going to matter,” Bannon, who previously received a pardon from Trump, 10.7K views · 69 likes · 31 reposts · 12 replies 03 Sep 2026 When I read about Instinct AI I just immediately think about how easy it really is to make that sort of agentic wrapper and how all of these SV founders are just surrendering data to this kid who, really, just gave them a black box filled with liability. Build your own. 473 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Good. 512 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 SITUATION DETECTED: The US government has sided with OpenAI against the New York Times. The DoJ says training an LLM on copyrighted works does not violate copyright law, and that treating it as infringement would hurt US science, prosperity, and national security. 1.5M views · 8.6K likes · 610 reposts · 287 replies 02 Sep 2026 @theLUCASTDS @Rok_German @NavinaHeyden By definition its not more than half of a 1-litre cup and under Under § 27 of the current Mess- und Eichverordnung there is no legal calibrated cup size between 0.5 and 1 litre. 701 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 The capture of Nicolas Maduro by American forces on January 3 clarified something in nationalist discourse. There exists a faction, growing in visibility if not in coherence, that has confused opposition to foreign influence in American politics with opposition to a particular 20K views · 60 likes · 12 reposts · 12 replies 07 Jan 2026