James Surowiecki ✓
@JamesSurowiecki · New Haven, CT · joined 25 Feb 2013
Author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Editor at The Yale Review. Contributing writer for The Atlantic. I wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker.
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I have a 65" TV. Looks great. Seems plenty big. I went into Best Buy today, and they had a 98" Samsung on display. It made the 65" next to it look like a postage stamp.
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The crazy assertion here is the idea that it's "destructive" to subsidize childcare for low-income single mothers so that they can get jobs.
Conservatives have spent decades insisting that welfare should be tied to work. Now they want to take benefits away from low-income https
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It does not feel weird to depict as a a villain someone who defrauded investors out of $600 million and whose fake blood tests tricked healthy people into believing they were sick and very sick people into believing they were healthy. She is a villain. https://t.co/7KwP5WS7wY
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The rhetoric surrounding this plan is woefully misleading. The vast majority of American households receive no childcare subsidy.
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Babe Ruth was 6'2", 215, and hit 60 HRs in a season while swinging a 42-oz bat. He would have been a great hitter today.
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102 MPH Sinking laser to the bottom of the zone
Babe Ruth would’ve hit .165 in today’s game https://t.co/Xy0rvIJM6U
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King of Fake Guys #1 saying something incredibly fake about King of Fake Guys #2.
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Kawhi going with the Sergeant Schultz defense: "I know nothing! Nothing!"
A company the Clippers were closely tied to paid Kawhi tens of millions of dollars to do nothing, and he never asked why.
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Matt van Swol is one of the worst clickbait grifters on this site. Unsurprising he stole Reason's content - and on top of that pinned the tweet.
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After a year, the Clippers have yet to offer an even vaguely plausible explanation of why Aspiration, a company Ballmer was a part owner of and the Clippers paid lots of money to, would have given the Clippers' best player $28 million to do absolutely nothing.
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The funniest part of this is that Trump says it's so insulting to Paxton to talk about how bad he looks, and then goes ahead and talks about how bad he looks. https://t.co/5N3KKrFQLH
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@JamesSurowiecki And yet there were once Union leaders who understood only ten years after the war why they should accord the South some dignity. Because it was NOT like foreign invaders. It was more like trying to repair a marriage when one party has filed for divorce.
And stat
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"Don't put up statues honoring men who waged war against you" seems like a principle any sensible country would follow.
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@JamesSurowiecki @aliasvaughn https://t.co/SGYXdLIB28
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@JamesSurowiecki A perfect demonstration of Trump's Razor – if all else is equal, the stupidest possible explanation is the most likely.
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@JamesSurowiecki It’s the same as his confusion about the word ASYLUM. He thinks it’s people from an insane asylum, not people seeking political asylum.
But once something is stuck in that empty head, it never changes.
Be prepared to hear EXCURSION every time.
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There's no question someone in the White House told Trump to call the war in Iran an "incursion," but he heard it as "excursion" and now he keeps calling it that - making the war sound like a holiday getaway - because no one around him ever corrects him when he makes a mistake. h
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Against accounts of the same size
13 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views12 535this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %9.60%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.25%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 12 535 | 5 983 | 2.10× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 9.60% | 1.49% | 6.44× |
| Engagement rate | 1.25% | 0.93% | 1.35× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
20.8K12 Mar
246.5K30 Aug
21.3K
5.6K3 Sep
6.7K
12.5K
4.7K
4K
493.6K6 Sep
23.3K
8.2K7 Sep
63.1K
18.2K8 Sep
10.7K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.35%12 Mar
0.35%30 Aug
9.71%
2.16%3 Sep
1.25%
3.06%
0.70%
0.77%
0.14%6 Sep
0.57%
1.15%7 Sep
4.20%
3.33%8 Sep
1.48%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes76.3%31 987 in total
Reposts15.7%6 582 in total
Replies3.7%1 535 in total
Quotes1.3%529 in total
Bookmarks3.1%1 317 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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