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Jacob Siegel

@Jacob__Siegel · joined 25 Aug 2013

Author, The Information State, @HenryHolt March, 2026 Editor @tabletmag Host @PodManifesto jacobsiegel@protonmail.com

20 151Followers
675Following
1 012Posts total
210.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views5 772this account2 259median for 10K–100K
Reach, %28.64%this account6.80%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.62%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post5 7722 2592.55×
Reach (views ÷ followers)28.64%6.80%4.21×
Engagement rate0.62%1.52%0.41×

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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

142.1K18 Dec
28.6K3 Sep
8.6K
2.9K
1.4K
1.4K
25.8K4 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

0.35%18 Dec
0.21%3 Sep
0.64%
0.35%
1.43%
1.21%
0.60%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes57.4%643 in total
Reposts7.9%89 in total
Replies4.6%52 in total
Quotes2.5%28 in total
Bookmarks27.5%308 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

No one ever gets the apocalypse they were wishing for. A very sharp essay on the coming conflagration by @foster_type. https://t.co/lg0wA2sX5T 25.8K views · 129 likes · 19 reposts · 4 replies 04 Sep 2026 A thoughtful, subtle essay on one of the great, tortured Romantic poets, Heinrich Heine, who, I learned from its author, was also a distant cousin of Marx. https://t.co/dxIaoS02Qm 1.4K views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 I have my criticisms of the CIA, but I'm truly grateful for modernism, Jazz, and Encounter magazine. 1.4K views · 18 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Fante is so good. One of the great American stylists. You have to give Bukowski credit for ripping him off and making him famous. 2.9K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 One of the best things I've read in a while. https://t.co/VT8aY9fQve 8.6K views · 46 likes · 4 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 'Steinem defended the CIA relationship, saying: “In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.”' https://t.co/LHJ0PB5EXx 28.6K views · 40 likes · 7 reposts · 11 replies 03 Sep 2026 My book, The Information State, an in-depth elaboration of the story first laid out in my @tabletmag essay, "A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century," will be out from @HenryHolt on March 24, 2026. You can pre-order it now and should give it as gifts to friends and 142.1K views · 388 likes · 54 reposts · 32 replies 18 Dec 2025

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