Dwight Garner

@DwightGarner · joined 29 Jan 2009

Book critic for the New York Times. garner@nytimes.com

48 973Followers

1 733Following

1 230Posts total

13.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Dwight Garner@DwightGarner12 Sep

@DwightGarner @AlecMacGillis Yes. 18 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dwight Garner@DwightGarner12 Sep

@DwightGarner Your gifts to literature are many, Dwight. 109 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dwight Garner@DwightGarner11 Sep

Donleavy’s book is also on audio for the first time, read by the ideal voice: Simon Cowell’s. 1K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dwight Garner@DwightGarner11 Sep

I’m thrilled that this hilarious and subversive book, long out of print, is finally back in a new edition - and that my essay about it helped spur this salvage project on. https://t.co/rBKhyfbxJX https://t.co/qkvVWMqMWd

3.3K views · 54 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Dwight Garner@DwightGarner2 Sep

RIP Wendell Berry. He wrote some good poems and stories. But he also wrote a ton of guff. https://t.co/liEHFOJrDM via @NYTimes 3.2K views · 31 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Dwight Garner@DwightGarner27 Aug

@DwightGarner One would think, or hope. 48 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Dwight Garner@DwightGarner27 Aug

Microsoft Word - by now - should recognize Tony Tulathimutte’s surname. 3.5K views · 20 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Dwight Garner@DwightGarner27 Aug

Dolly Parton’s greatest song was “Down from Dover.” Hie yourself to Charley Taylor’s Substack to begin to understand why. 1.9K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 482this account1 041median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.03%this account3.61%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.96%this account1.70%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 482	1 041	1.42×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.03%	3.61%	0.84×
Engagement rate	0.96%	1.70%	0.56×

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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

1.9K27 Aug

3.5K

3.2K2 Sep

3.3K11 Sep

10912 Sep

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

0.78%27 Aug

0.65%

0.00%

1.14%2 Sep

1.91%11 Sep

0.29%

1.83%12 Sep

5.56%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.70%.

What the audience does

Likes69.3%124 in total

Reposts6.1%11 in total

Replies5.0%9 in total

Bookmarks19.6%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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