John Stossel ✓

@JohnStossel · New York, NY · joined 23 Jun 2010

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1 271 557Followers

456Following

13 707Posts total

148.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views682this account66 615median for 1M–10M

Reach, %0.05%this account2.69%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %2.72%this account1.41%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	682	66 615	0.01×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.05%	2.69%	0.02×
Engagement rate	2.72%	1.41%	1.92×

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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

38K1 Sep

179

234

2102 Sep

26.8K

41.2K

613

682

368

33.9K

6.3K3 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

5.01%1 Sep

2.23%

2.14%

1.90%2 Sep

2.66%

5.14%

4.57%

2.93%

2.72%

5.40%

1.59%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes74.8%5 589 in total

Reposts13.3%992 in total

Replies1.7%125 in total

Quotes0.5%34 in total

Bookmarks9.8%731 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

In parts of America, @littlecaesars flies pizza right to your door in less than 5 minutes. @Grubhub flies burgers in under 10. @amazon Air drops packages right in your backyard. All without human drivers burning gas in traffic. How? Delivery drones! For more: https://t.co/ 6.3K views · 81 likes · 12 reposts · 7 replies 03 Sep 2026 Would you rather hear me sing? Me? Or Taylor Swift? Former Labor Secy @RBReich says it’s unfair that billionaires have so much money. But Swift is a billionaire because people want to listen to her! Inequality isn’t a conspiracy. It’s what happens when people are free: htt 33.9K views · 1.5K likes · 275 reposts · 41 replies 02 Sep 2026 @JohnStossel I love how you're able to read this trash without breaking out into raucous laughter. 368 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @JohnStossel The editor finally gave up the charade, all that was needed was a "seems silly" + this look @ 2:18 🤣 Yes, we will look back at this time as silly. https://t.co/FxZZAhd18x 682 views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @JohnStossel Great calling out the ridiculousness. At least he did talk to you. The hoaxers' little experiment does show they publish a lot of nonsense. 613 views · 27 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 It was a bizarre news story -- seven academic journals published absurd hoax papers. Six Editors wouldn't talk with me -- but one, Roberto Refinetti of the journal Sexuality and Culture, agreed to give his side of things. We debate: https://t.co/yEoQJ0yZR1 41.2K views · 1.8K likes · 308 reposts · 36 replies 02 Sep 2026 In 2022, politicians in Minneapolis and St. Paul voted for rent control. I said that would lead to bigger problems. Was I right? https://t.co/JLff5YZCVD 26.8K views · 638 likes · 67 reposts · 9 replies 02 Sep 2026 @JohnStossel @salimfurth @mercatus Washington state passed it last year. Now landlords can only raise rent as high as the government approves, even if taxes outpace rent prices. 210 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @JohnStossel @salimfurth @mercatus Good to see our constitutional republic's "laboratory of 50 states" (and many more localities) show what works and what doesn't. Why don't more people pay attention to these lessons? I appreciate your good work! 234 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 @JohnStossel Love how the brain 🧠 freezes when presented with a question that results in an answer not acceptable to the hive mind 😂 Reminds me of the Star Trek episode I, Mudd with the android that got stuck answering a difficult question 😂 179 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 "Why would you enter a market where the government is actively trying to hurt you?" Economist @salimfurth of @mercatus predicted builders would flee St Paul's rent control law. Four years later, the city admits he was right: https://t.co/FA3P2X1lr6 38K views · 1.5K likes · 330 reposts · 31 replies 01 Sep 2026