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Erika D. Smith

@Erika_D_Smith · Los Angeles, CA · joined 27 Oct 2008

Columnist, Bloomberg @Opinion. Past @latimes 🦅, @sacbee_news, @indystar, @beaconjournal. Ohioan by birth. Proud Californian by choice. ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 DMs open.

11 280Followers
5 022Following
26 206Posts total
22.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views333this account964median for 10K–100K
Reach, %2.95%this account3.25%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.96%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post3339640.35×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.95%3.25%0.91×
Engagement rate1.96%2.01%0.97×

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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

19.4K11 Jun
26012 Jun
265
135
4603 Sep
164
1.1K
439
3335 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.56%11 Jun
8.46%12 Jun
11.70%
10.37%
1.96%3 Sep
0.00%
1.94%
2.05%
0.00%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes60.7%147 in total
Reposts8.3%20 in total
Replies16.5%40 in total
Quotes3.3%8 in total
Bookmarks11.2%27 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

Nonsensical, as usual… 333 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
“I used to call my presentations ‘Know Your Rights’ workshops. Now, they’re just workshops, because there are no rights.” Oof. 439 views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
MY LATEST ⁦@latimes⁩ COLUMNA: 'It's become a deportation mill': A day with an immigration attorney. RT, porfas! https://t.co/UmTaIRUVyr 1.1K views · 10 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Scary stuff. “The number of pathogens tracked by FoodNet, a crucial CDC surveillance program, has been cut by 75 percent. The amount of money spent on FoodNet annually is a fraction of what has already been spent to renovate the Reflecting Pool.” https://t.co/sYK5tHcoNB 164 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
New York and now Los Angeles… “L.A. Unified has adopted a moratorium on student use of generative artificial intelligence for the current school year.” https://t.co/HQ8QCdszrO 460 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@Erika_D_Smith @opinion This is the same writer that called Larry Elder “the black face of white supremacy.” 135 views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 12 Jun 2026 · Open on X →
@Erika_D_Smith @opinion No one, not one person “shifted left”. Utter nonsense. 265 views · 28 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 12 Jun 2026 · Open on X →
@Erika_D_Smith @opinion 😂 no we don’t want a shift left Aren’t you the person that called Larry Elder a “white supremacist” ?? 😂 260 views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 12 Jun 2026 · Open on X →
If there’s one lesson of recent elections, it’s voters are upset with the political establishment in cities. In San Francisco, this has meant a shift to the right. In LA, a shift left. As I write for @opinion, this could mean a lot in the LA mayoral race. https://t.co/1mQ7KzzXRk 19.4K views · 63 likes · 8 reposts · 33 replies 11 Jun 2026 · Open on X →

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