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@Harpers · New York, NY · joined 02 Apr 2008

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118 362Followers

974Following

36 512Posts total

31.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

13 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views621this account4 257median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.52%this account1.61%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.44%this account1.31%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	621	4 257	0.15×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.52%	1.61%	0.33×
Engagement rate	0.44%	1.31%	0.34×

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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

23K19 Aug

759

621

342

238

329

451

384

3220 Aug

1.2K4 Sep

1.2K

1.4K5 Sep

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.19%19 Aug

0.66%

1.29%

0.88%

1.26%

1.82%

0.44%

0.26%

0.00%20 Aug

0.65%4 Sep

0.26%

0.08%

0.22%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.31%.

What the audience does

Likes59.3%70 in total

Reposts5.9%7 in total

Replies7.6%9 in total

Quotes0.8%1 in total

Bookmarks26.3%31 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

“The freckled lilies of the woods. They’ve come again. And I have met them.” From “Anniverse,” a poem by Wendell Berry (1977). https://t.co/xc4AuyBL0a 1.4K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

“Cultivated meat raised a compelling question. If you could subtract some of the downsides—make meat less destructive, engineer away its aesthetic flaws—what reason would there be not to eat it?” —Erin Somers https://t.co/HXq0Mo8XUs 1.2K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

“A bit of frothy landscape greenery pointed the way, to the way she intended to go—carrying her cardboard box—and she was not meant to see her husband again, nor did she want to.” From a new story by Diane Williams. https://t.co/27iPa6jNuR 1.2K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

From the September Harper’s Index. https://t.co/QptEwnJyru https://t.co/LQ8lCJ7ZzY 1.2K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@Harpers No more bad meat! No more lab meat! We’ve got to stop meating like this! https://t.co/PmlztWjhqd 32 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 20 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

“The ground was tilted dangerously near the cave paintings, so that his legs were atremble from his efforts not to fall into the water.” New fiction from Diane Williams. https://t.co/C3XaSyeY56 384 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Kasia Boddy reviews William Kennedy’s Albany Trilogy. “Kennedy’s Albany is a vital, violent place,” she writes, “a hothouse of gangsters, pool hustlers, bums, crooked politicians, and showgirls.” https://t.co/T6kcAeeDY5 451 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Finn Brunton on prediction markets, crypto-anarchism, and insiders who profit from disaster. https://t.co/g8WLu8mMYd 329 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

A civil servant searches Beijing for mulberry trees to keep her son’s silkworms alive in a pseudonymous memoir. https://t.co/FNBnXLhDDM 238 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Kyle Berlin reports on the lawsuit surrounding Kamel Daoud’s Goncourt-winning novel about the Algerian Civil War. https://t.co/9AY8zDgcB8 342 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Barrett Swanson visits the Ugly People Festival in Italy. “I found myself interested in how the Club dei Brutti was challenging or interacting with American views of appearance, which had lately begun to strike me as vexing and insidious,” he writes. https://t.co/iBlT1hX7qb 621 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

.@SomersErin charts the rise and fall of the cultivated meat industry, an arc which contains “so much of what defined this era of American life: dubious techno-optimism, bombastic culture-war posturing, carnival oddities like the mammoth meatball.” https://t.co/HXq0Mo8XUs 759 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

In our September issue: Erin Somers on lab-grown meat, Barrett Swanson on the pain of uggos, Kyle Berlin on a controversial French bestseller, Finn Brunton on prediction markets, a memoir from Beijing, fiction from Diane Williams, and more. https://t.co/UJEMO9zkar https://t.co/R 23K views · 37 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →