David Payne Purdum ✓

@DavidPurdum · joined 23 Apr 2009

I write about gambling for ESPN. I am not good at gambling.

90 004Followers

3 077Following

54 669Posts total

163.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views5 032this account2 747median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.59%this account8.35%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.39%this account1.45%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 032	2 747	1.83×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.59%	8.35%	0.67×
Engagement rate	0.39%	1.45%	0.27×

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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

20.9K1 Sep

199

2242 Sep

5.1K3 Sep

6.1K

11.7K4 Sep

111.6K

1.8K

527

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

0.13%1 Sep

0.50%

0.89%2 Sep

0.26%3 Sep

0.29%

0.45%4 Sep

0.32%

0.28%

0.50%

1.14%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.45%.

What the audience does

Likes71.0%375 in total

Reposts10.4%55 in total

Replies10.4%55 in total

Quotes3.6%19 in total

Bookmarks4.5%24 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

@DavidPurdum Probably Portnoy 527 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @DavidPurdum when we would write those kind of long shot bets over the phone in the 90s and the bettor would ask what does that pay our reply was -$3000 1.8K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 @DavidPurdum https://t.co/SqTjTHafzK 5K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 In April, a bettor at a William Hill sportsbook in Nevada placed a $3,000 bet on Rutgers to win the national championship at 500-1 odds. The bet would pay a net $1.5 million. Rutgers lost to UMass tonight. 111.6K views · 273 likes · 30 reposts · 43 replies 04 Sep 2026 The NFL sent a letter to all prediction market operators today, reiterating its concerns about some of the markets being offered. https://t.co/4uzmPuIkTi 11.7K views · 38 likes · 10 reposts · 5 replies 04 Sep 2026 .@SenBlumenthal admonishes FanDuel in letter, saying the sportsbook did not provide transparent answers to the Senator’s inquiry into the VIP program related to the Bryce Harper story. 6.1K views · 13 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Entering the week, Notre Dame QB CJ Carr and Texas QB Arch Manning had attracted exactly the same number of bets to win the Heisman Trophy at @BetMGM sportsbooks. [h/t @johnewing] 5.1K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @DavidPurdum Unless Alexander can show that the NCAA gave a more lenient penalty to other athletes in the same circumstances, he could have a tough time winning this case. Brendan Sorsby won an injunction without showing such inconsistency, but I think that court's decision was 224 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @DavidPurdum It’s Bexar County, not Brexar. And oddly enough, it’s pronounced “Bear”. https://t.co/0yHvQo43Z3 199 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 Ex-Texas Tech WR sues NCAA over gambling suspension https://t.co/H1doqcxah2 20.9K views · 14 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026