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Patrick McGee

@PatrickMcGee_ · San Francisco, CA · joined 06 Jun 2011

Author of Apple in China — named a top book of 2025 by The New York Times, Foreign Affairs & the New Yorker. Contributor at @TheFP & @FT 🇨🇦

28 593Followers
5 076Following
42 531Posts total
323.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views2 898this account1 540median for 10K–100K
Reach, %10.13%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.59%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post2 8981 5401.88×
Reach (views ÷ followers)10.13%4.74%2.14×
Engagement rate0.59%1.87%0.32×

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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

58.2K20 May
70022 May
205.9K
65
3.7K29 Apr
5.9K1 Sep
3.4K
2.4K
1.4K2 Sep
39.4K3 Sep
2.3K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.69%20 May
2.71%22 May
1.41%
10.77%
0.22%29 Apr
0.24%1 Sep
0.67%
0.60%
0.66%2 Sep
0.59%3 Sep
0.53%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes77.4%2 874 in total
Reposts14.9%555 in total
Replies3.8%141 in total
Quotes1.9%69 in total
Bookmarks2.0%76 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

So well-deserved. I’ve got one chapter to go and the sourcing is just unbelievable. 2.3K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 My new book The Nord Stream Conspiracy has been listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the world's most prestigious international award for literary non-fiction. Thrilled to be in such a wonderful company of authors including five laureates #BGPrize2026 39.4K views · 193 likes · 23 reposts · 12 replies 03 Sep 2026 Talking @apple CEO transition on @CBSNews: https://t.co/BWV0PnFDhV 1.4K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Predictable but disappointing 🇨🇦 2.4K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 “Every entrepreneur I’ve met who has focused on the money hasn’t got it.” 3.4K views · 21 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 A Steve Jobs interview from 1996 I had never seen before, posted y’day on YouTube: (He’s leading Pixar and NeXT; Apple staffers haven’t yet called about Apple acquiring NeXT). https://t.co/cWsa8gLBj1 5.9K views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 @PatrickMcGee_ @TheDailyShow "Biden's CHIPS ACT only invests $53 billion *over 4 years*. By 2015, Apple invested $55 billion EVERY YEAR into the PRC 🇨🇳 They've trained 28 million 🇨🇳 Chinese people, larger than the labor force of California, since 2008. The US 🇺🇸 spent HALF o 3.7K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 29 Apr 2026 @PatrickMcGee_ @TheDailyShow https://t.co/Xdew1oxNYd 65 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 22 May 2025 Frankly wild that someone can lie so egregiously on something that can so easily be fact-checked. He says that "Apple was investing, by 2015, $55 billion a year in China". The problem is that Apple is a public company that has a legal obligation to disclose how much it invests 205.9K views · 2.3K likes · 483 reposts · 73 replies 22 May 2025 @PatrickMcGee_ @TheDailyShow Respectfully, there are tens of thousands of Chinese sponsored vocational schools in China teaching tens of millions of Chinese people skills in farming, logistics, and the use of the internet to reduce poverty and increase prosperity in remote parts 700 views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 22 May 2025 Life highlight might be Jon Stewart calling my book “jaw dropping” and “phenomenal.” Massive thanks to everyone @TheDailyShow. Totally surreal to be there. Book is on sale now. https://t.co/pNbzJGzcmV https://t.co/apuEZA3rBc 58.2K views · 294 likes · 40 reposts · 50 replies 20 May 2025

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