Freakonomics ✓

@Freakonomics · joined 24 Apr 2008

Shows that explore the hidden side of everything with Stephen Dubner. Check out our new show Better in Person on the Freakonomics YouTube channel.

581 704Followers

951Following

17 385Posts total

71.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Freakonomics ✓@Freakonomics17 Sep

Kurt Warner doesn’t believe great athletes rise to the occasion. The Hall of Fame quarterback has played in some of football’s biggest arenas. But when Stephen Dubner asked what made him so good under pressure, Warner offered a different way of thinking about it … Maybe the htt

16K views · 51 likes · 4 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Freakonomics ✓@Freakonomics14 Sep

Picking a great NFL quarterback seems like it shouldn’t be that difficult. Teams have college stats, game tape, the scouting combine, cognitive tests, and armies of experts. And yet quarterback evaluation remains “one of the most studied and still most uncertain problems in all

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Freakonomics ✓@Freakonomics13 Sep

What's the best way to cap off a great conversation with an old friend? A mathematical proof showing that there are infinite infinities. https://t.co/9VxL9zF6QE

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Freakonomics ✓@Freakonomics12 Sep

The U.S. has been through massive economic disruption before. @GinaRaimondo thinks we should learn from the past about how to respond. https://t.co/tjQ1q1vFw3

7.7K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Freakonomics ✓@Freakonomics10 Sep

Spotted in Yahoo Sports 👀 https://t.co/CJzQHZW2kM https://t.co/GougxohvYC

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Freakonomics ✓@Freakonomics10 Sep

What does it take to play offensive line in the NFL? John Urschel bench pressed 225 pounds 30 times at the @NFL scouting combine before getting drafted to the Baltimore Ravens. https://t.co/RWgOo4U8g9

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Freakonomics ✓@Freakonomics9 Sep

How did @GinaRaimondo convince TSMC to manufacture more of its chips in America? The former Commerce Secretary tells Stephen Dubner about the behind-the-scenes push that helped get the company on board, including how she enlisted some of its biggest customers, @Apple, @nvidia

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Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views8 598this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.48%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.10%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	8 598	5 983	1.44×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.48%	1.49%	0.99×
Engagement rate	0.10%	0.93%	0.11×

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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

6.2K9 Sep

8.1K10 Sep

13.9K

7.7K12 Sep

10.7K13 Sep

8.6K14 Sep

16K17 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

0.16%9 Sep

0.07%10 Sep

0.09%

0.10%12 Sep

0.08%13 Sep

0.16%14 Sep

0.38%17 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes58.4%94 in total

Reposts7.5%12 in total

Replies7.5%12 in total

Quotes1.2%2 in total

Bookmarks25.5%41 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.