Jim Stanford

@JimboStanford · Vancouver, Cda. & Sydney, Aus. · joined 29 Jul 2011

Economist & Director, Centre for Future Work. He/him. Also Economics Dept. McMaster U.; Hon. Prof. of Political-Economy Sydney U.; author Economics for Everyone

29 027Followers

1 794Following

32 901Posts total

127.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 766this account1 540median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.08%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.04%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 766	1 540	1.15×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.08%	4.74%	1.28×
Engagement rate	3.04%	1.87%	1.63×

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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

73.4K16 Nov

1.8K3 Sep

21K

29.5K

1.5K

4684 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.20%16 Nov

4.19%3 Sep

6.34%

3.04%

1.84%

0.85%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes67.6%1 701 in total

Reposts24.0%605 in total

Replies5.5%139 in total

Quotes1.7%42 in total

Bookmarks1.2%30 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

Superb analysis from @bspiesbutcher of @CntrFutureWork of the contradictions of orthodox monetary austerity, applied in the Australian context: https://t.co/FVEHEFkcZI. The new channel of monetary transmission is effectively a tax on workers collected thru housing. @TheNewDailyAu 468 views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Trump’s America has gleefully done away with ‘DEI’ hiring. They are the ones dying of tainted food. Not sure this is making the point you think it is Tristin. 1.5K views · 19 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 America had lost 40,000 auto manufacturing jobs since Trump was elected in Nov 2024, six times more than Canada has. His policies are mutual assured destruction for both countries. https://t.co/CH88h6yq4F 29.5K views · 578 likes · 249 reposts · 55 replies 03 Sep 2026 This is from an internal report by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. It lists the precise number of disabled and non-white employees that each managerial unit is expected to hire. The next time Canadians are dead from tainted food, remember that this is what they prioritized. htt 21K views · 950 likes · 317 reposts · 40 replies 03 Sep 2026 The big problem here is that those data centres will employ a tiny fraction (maybe 5%) of the number of people who used to work in an equivalent capital value of factories. 1.8K views · 48 likes · 21 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 I am also over at the other places now (same handle). 73.4K views · 104 likes · 11 reposts · 35 replies 16 Nov 2024