Laura Bassett ✓

@LEBassett · Brooklyn, NY · joined 27 Sep 2009

writer, editor. previously: EIC @jezebel, columnist at @nymag and @gqmagazine, senior reporter at @huffpostpol

119 571Followers

2 251Following

41 811Posts total

17.3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views312 282this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %261.17%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.69%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	312 282	21 891	14.3×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.6× audience	6.81%	38.4×
Engagement rate	0.69%	1.14%	0.60×

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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

83.7K26 Aug

13.5K

1.9M27 Aug

125.4K

11.8M28 Aug

33.7K

2.3M31 Aug

563.2K1 Sep

499.2K

19.5K2 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.77%26 Aug

0.60%

0.17%27 Aug

2.90%

0.12%28 Aug

1.46%

0.13%31 Aug

0.50%1 Sep

6.69%

0.79%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes76.7%47 925 in total

Reposts8.3%5 197 in total

Replies6.5%4 055 in total

Quotes8.0%4 973 in total

Bookmarks0.5%342 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

Fearmongels 19.5K views · 131 likes · 9 reposts · 12 replies 02 Sep 2026 Even under a universal healthcare system, physicians are not expected to work for free. Hope this helps 499.2K views · 30.8K likes · 2.2K reposts · 372 replies 01 Sep 2026 Markwayne Mullin: "The Democrats throw out all these fearmongels to try to make ICE and President Trump's administration look as worse as possible" 🥴 https://t.co/E1LT0THqMs 563.2K views · 1.5K likes · 253 reposts · 802 replies 01 Sep 2026 Lisa McClain questions why El-Sayed's wife doesn't treat patients for free if he's really a supporter of universal healthcare 🤔 https://t.co/HMqxHoqrRI 2.3M views · 1.4K likes · 179 reposts · 1.1K replies 31 Aug 2026 He’s fucking insane 33.7K views · 447 likes · 31 reposts · 11 replies 28 Aug 2026 Trump announces he will eliminate regulations on beef processing amid multiple food-borne illness outbreaks: "I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD. This should move quickly." https://t 11.8M views · 8.2K likes · 1.8K reposts · 754 replies 28 Aug 2026 First pro-measles administration 125.4K views · 3.2K likes · 360 reposts · 35 replies 27 Aug 2026 Dr Oz: "I don't want anyone in America concerned inappropriately. We don't know exactly what happened in Pennsylvania yet. We don't know if the children died from measles or had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time. h 1.9M views · 1.6K likes · 296 reposts · 975 replies 27 Aug 2026 He lives in a literal funhouse 13.5K views · 78 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 26 Aug 2026 "I heard plenty of stories about the absurd lengths people went to for 'the boss.' Staff reportedly steamed his pants while he was still wearing them. Trump would also ask aides to take mirrors from events if he thought they made him look especially flatteringly slim." 83.7K views · 507 likes · 101 reposts · 29 replies 26 Aug 2026