Steve Lopez LA Times

@LATstevelopez · Los Angeles, CA · joined 02 Feb 2009

Columnist Steve Lopez is the author of "Independence Day," a memoir about retirement, and the best-selling "The Soloist." https://t.co/CdGTmYMdhR

22 534Followers

899Following

3 113Posts total

16.2KViews on collected posts

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Steve Lopez LA Times@LATstevelopez7 Jul 2025

Bravely facing the end, and hoping to have his ashes sent to a far-away friend https://t.co/U4p1BbW4Gi 1.6K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 21 replies Open on X →

Steve Lopez LA Times@LATstevelopez17 Feb 2024

Gustavo and Gershwin, props for their chops: Why we need ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ more than ever as it turns 100 https://t.co/yZl2Vup2O1 5.1K views · 21 likes · 5 reposts · 40 replies Open on X →

Steve Lopez LA Times@LATstevelopez16 Jan 2024

Skelton: For 50 years, I’ve had a ringside seat at the California political circus https://t.co/Iaxhn4Tnqv 2.4K views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Steve Lopez LA Times@LATstevelopez30 Dec 2023

With giant waves battering California coast, Rosanna Xia book is required reading 5.6K views · 19 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Steve Lopez LA Times@LATstevelopez29 Nov 2023

What day laborers are hired to do: the dangerous, the gross, the sometimes illegal https://t.co/OiwOxndWxq 1.4K views · 6 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

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

1.4K29 Nov

5.6K30 Dec

2.4K16 Jan

5.1K17 Feb

1.6K7 Jul

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

1.19%29 Nov

0.55%30 Dec

0.90%16 Jan

1.29%17 Feb

1.76%7 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes38.0%63 in total

Reposts15.1%25 in total

Replies45.8%76 in total

Bookmarks1.2%2 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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