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David Brand

@DavidFBrand · joined 23 Feb 2009

Covering housing for @WNYC @Gothamist | dbrand@wnyc.org | Past: @CityLimitsNews, @QueensEagle & before that, a Licensed Social Worker

20 089Followers
1 930Following
16 963Posts total
4.9MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views32 942this account2 896median for 10K–100K
Reach, %163.98%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.70%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post32 9422 89611.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)163.98%9.51%17.2×
Engagement rate0.70%1.56%0.45×

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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

14.1K15 Feb
46.9K21 Aug
4.8M24 Aug
19K25 Aug
10.2K26 Aug
64.3K
8951 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.42%15 Feb
0.07%21 Aug
0.81%24 Aug
0.56%25 Aug
1.87%26 Aug
0.58%
2.91%1 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes85.1%33 741 in total
Reposts11.3%4 463 in total
Replies2.0%798 in total
Quotes1.4%565 in total
Bookmarks0.2%89 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

5 years ago, Hurricane Ida killed 13 people in NYC Most drowned in flooded basements, spurring plans for a city buyout program But 3 mayors later, there have been no buyouts. Now it may be too late for one Queens family ordered to demolish their house https://t.co/lJIhcHOnSU 895 views · 16 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 NYC attorneys got the rent freeze lawsuit moved from Staten Island to Manhattan New court filings show the judge now handling the case in Manhattan is the former chair of the Staten Island GOP https://t.co/TiW6jKB6vx 64.3K views · 312 likes · 45 reposts · 12 replies 26 Aug 2026 More than half of the properties that got a pied-a-terre tax notices are owned by LLCs, trusts or other corporate entities, per a new court filing from NYC's Dept of Finance Not even NYC tax officials can peek behind the LLC mask @Gothamist @WNYC https://t.co/Lbuww3ehKH 10.2K views · 148 likes · 27 reposts · 10 replies 26 Aug 2026 Does anyone actually make the claim that “rent control” (or here in NYC, rent-stabilization) can “fix the housing crisis?” The staunchest defenders of rent regulations tend to frame them more like consumer protections against “price-gouging” or major rent hikes 19K views · 79 likes · 6 reposts · 19 replies 25 Aug 2026 Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No. In fact, it could make things a whole lot worse. Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx https://t.co/bXCbK1y1QM 4.8M views · 33.1K likes · 4.4K reposts · 742 replies 24 Aug 2026 Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze just won its first legal skirmish. @Lilah_Burke reports landlords challenging the freeze lost their bid to keep the case on Staten Island. Now the fight over rents for roughly 900,000 stabilized apartments moves to Manhattan. https://t.co/NZLFnIr1Oh 46.9K views · 29 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 21 Aug 2026 I cover HOUSING and politics in and around NYC. Got tips, news or feedback? Please get in touch! Contact me on Signal: @ davidfbrand.2025 Or email me: dbrand@wnyc.org I'm also on Bluesky @ davidfbrand. bsky. social 14.1K views · 40 likes · 6 reposts · 14 replies 15 Feb 2025

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