Luke Savage

@LukewSavage · joined 16 Apr 2011

Words in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Toronto Star, New Statesman, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. Columnist at Jacobin. Co-host of @MichaelandUs.

70 852Followers

3 672Following

106 219Posts total

79.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Luke Savage@LukewSavage15 Sep

Going off the grid for roughly a week folks — will read and respond to your messages then. See you on the other side. https://t.co/FclIjhiQA6

2.3K views · 103 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Luke Savage@LukewSavage14 Sep

Glorious afternoon 2.7K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Luke Savage@LukewSavage11 Sep

https://t.co/ajcKGlxBvM

4K views · 130 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Luke Savage@LukewSavage11 Sep

Anthony Furey: Can Toronto rid itself of Mayor Olivia Chow? https://t.co/9zbFQEUFx0 https://t.co/rRU5OOEy10

22.8K views · 298 likes · 48 reposts · 159 replies Open on X →

Luke Savage@LukewSavage10 Sep

Union Station is fine the way it is. The food is great, the architecture is beautiful, and I don't give a shit if "investors" are dismayed at the sight of the odd homeless person. Cannot recall a more noxious or negative mayoral campaign since I've lived here. 11.1K views · 437 likes · 47 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Luke Savage@LukewSavage3 Aug

I'm in the Star today with a piece on the Carney government's handling of relations with the United States. Last year, Canadians gave Mark Carney a mandate to disentangle our country from the empire to the south. He's done the exact opposite. Link in next tweet. https://t.co/V

36.7K views · 779 likes · 223 reposts · 34 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views7 585this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %10.71%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.22%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	7 585	924	8.21×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	10.71%	3.62%	2.96×
Engagement rate	3.22%	1.52%	2.11×

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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

36.7K3 Aug

11.1K10 Sep

22.8K11 Sep

2.7K14 Sep

2.3K15 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

2.86%3 Aug

4.50%10 Sep

2.28%11 Sep

3.58%

0.40%14 Sep

4.75%15 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes72.9%1 758 in total

Reposts13.7%330 in total

Replies8.9%215 in total

Quotes1.1%27 in total

Bookmarks3.4%81 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.