Osita Nwanevu

@OsitaNwanevu · Baltimore · joined 13 Dec 2011

Contributing Editor | @newrepublic Columnist | @guardian Newsletter | https://t.co/yyoqTnxQX0 Recent Work | https://t.co/vzkAQEZM6K

88 481Followers

6 256Following

38 870Posts total

39.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Osita Nwanevu@OsitaNwanevu9 Sep

It would be easy to wipe ourselves out with nukes; the mechanisms are clear. When you ask how an LLM would kill everyone, you're told things like, 'it will convince a random to make a bioweapon that will reach all human beings without difficulty because the LLM is all knowing.' 1.2K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Osita Nwanevu@OsitaNwanevu9 Sep

I wrote about sortition and the point of democracy for The Nation. https://t.co/7nRazlYzTj

2.6K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Osita Nwanevu@OsitaNwanevu2 Sep

Still holds up, I think. https://t.co/R9VBN29sm7 https://t.co/MGvZ3eh1Ys

10.5K views · 86 likes · 20 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Osita Nwanevu@OsitaNwanevu3 Jul

I wrote about The Declaration of Independence. https://t.co/0QasfSlTE8

25.3K views · 114 likes · 26 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views6 558this account1 043median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.41%this account3.67%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.89%this account1.68%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 558	1 043	6.29×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.41%	3.67%	2.02×
Engagement rate	0.89%	1.68%	0.53×

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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

25.3K3 Jul

10.5K2 Sep

2.6K9 Sep

1.2K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.56%3 Jul

1.02%2 Sep

0.76%9 Sep

1.39%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.68%.

What the audience does

Likes61.8%231 in total

Reposts13.1%49 in total

Replies1.3%5 in total

Bookmarks23.8%89 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.