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.

130 459Followers

434Following

157 853Posts total

33.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views5 614this account8 935median for 100K–1M

Reach, %4.30%this account3.24%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.25%this account1.32%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	5 614	8 935	0.63×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.30%	3.24%	1.33×
Engagement rate	1.25%	1.32%	0.95×

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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

5.6K3 Sep

6.7K

12.5K

4.7K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.16%3 Sep

1.25%

3.06%

0.70%

0.77%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.32%.

What the audience does

Likes86.8%583 in total

Reposts6.1%41 in total

Replies4.0%27 in total

Quotes0.3%2 in total

Bookmarks2.8%19 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

King of Fake Guys #1 saying something incredibly fake about King of Fake Guys #2. 4K views · 24 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 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. 4.7K views · 27 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 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. 12.5K views · 354 likes · 21 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 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. 6.7K views · 74 likes · 4 reposts · 6 replies 03 Sep 2026 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 5.6K views · 104 likes · 12 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026