Matt Bruenig ✓

@MattBruenig · joined 01 Jul 2011

@NLRBEdge: https://t.co/E6kqP2rb61 @PplPolicyProj: https://t.co/djknS83YJd The Bruenigs podcast: https://t.co/Wtpbn0UcHT

187 632Followers

1 223Following

1 237Posts total

576.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views26 276this account22 159median for 100K–1M

Reach, %14.00%this account6.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.82%this account1.18%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	26 276	22 159	1.19×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	14.00%	6.71%	2.09×
Engagement rate	0.82%	1.18%	0.70×

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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

285.3K12 Aug

218.2K14 Aug

18.7K19 Aug

12.6K25 Aug

33.8K31 Aug

7.7K2 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

0.36%12 Aug

0.97%14 Aug

1.81%19 Aug

2.77%25 Aug

0.68%31 Aug

0.56%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.18%.

What the audience does

Likes81.8%3 607 in total

Reposts5.7%252 in total

Replies3.3%144 in total

Quotes2.0%88 in total

Bookmarks7.2%318 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

This is a fun piece as an illustration that nobody really has any idea what the numerator and denominator is supposed to be for "progressivity." The end, where they muse on whether to impute income to SAHMs and put that in the denominator, is peak. 7.7K views · 40 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Three More Thoughts on AI https://t.co/CVasmo873o 33.8K views · 185 likes · 14 reposts · 18 replies 31 Aug 2026 RIP Dolly Parton, one of the top (era-adjusted) celebrities of all time. 12.6K views · 335 likes · 6 reposts · 8 replies 25 Aug 2026 The total incuriosity from the right is so weird. In Sweden, around 80% of kids go to a public child care center. Another 5% attend coops. Kids attending a private center use a government voucher that comes with rules (like a fee cap) and can be revoked for safety reasons. https: 18.7K views · 305 likes · 20 reposts · 13 replies 19 Aug 2026 These trainings exist because Supreme Court made it so that if an employer takes preventative measures against discrimination, they can avoid liability for subsequent discrimination that occurs. It was an effort to weaken the civil rights act. 218.2K views · 1.9K likes · 165 reposts · 29 replies 14 Aug 2026 MAGA election denialism is nutty, but I have never been required by law to spend minimum 2 hours undergoing a training at my place of employment where I had to affirm it in 17 different ways in order to pass/be deemed compliant 285.3K views · 850 likes · 45 reposts · 75 replies 12 Aug 2026