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Damon Linker

@DamonLinker · Philadelphia, PA · joined 27 Jan 2012

Senior Lecturer in Political Science @Penn / Senior Fellow @NiskanenCenter / Newsletter scribe

31 316Followers
1 064Following
71 952Posts total
12.8MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views12 794this account3 383median for 10K–100K
Reach, %40.85%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.87%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post12 7943 3833.78×
Reach (views ÷ followers)40.85%10.96%3.73×
Engagement rate0.87%1.40%0.62×

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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

711.2K30 Aug
17.1K31 Aug
9.7M1 Sep
6.7K
8.5K2 Sep
2.3M
2.8K
68.6K
4.5K
2.4K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.86%30 Aug
1.41%31 Aug
0.12%1 Sep
1.00%
0.89%2 Sep
2.89%
0.42%
0.53%
1.95%
0.84%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes72.3%63 635 in total
Reposts9.7%8 572 in total
Replies11.0%9 698 in total
Quotes3.7%3 270 in total
Bookmarks3.3%2 883 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

My gut (always reliable) tells me Mark Penn likes to oversample Republicans. 2.4K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 They retweeted an April 1954 tweet from Joseph McCarthy. 4.5K views · 68 likes · 13 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 Well someone is going to be really wrong in this election. 68.6K views · 283 likes · 24 reposts · 54 replies 02 Sep 2026 This is a very smart bit of sociological analysis. 2.8K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. 2.3M views · 51K likes · 6.5K reposts · 7.8K replies 02 Sep 2026 A theory of the "incelization of the lifeworld." https://t.co/qmbR7Ou2sF 8.5K views · 58 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 I don’t approve of MAGA using armed agents of the state to settle factional disputes. But that said: Dear Milo: Boo f-cking hoo. 6.7K views · 61 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member. It was physically degrading. It was https://t 9.7M views · 7.6K likes · 750 reposts · 1.5K replies 01 Sep 2026 I hope you understand that reminding Republicans of this in 2026 is much more likely to intensify their growing disdain for Reagan than to get them to say, "Oh the Great Reagan thought this? I should revise my current views to become more like him." 17.1K views · 172 likes · 30 reposts · 34 replies 31 Aug 2026 Reagan launched his 1979 primary bid for the GOP nomination with an extended call for free immigration, free trade, and political integration with Mexico and Canada, where "peoples and commerce of its three strong countries flow freely across their present borders." https://t.co/ 711.2K views · 4.3K likes · 1.2K reposts · 265 replies 30 Aug 2026

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