Pirate Wires

@PirateWires

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1 476 972Followers

14Following

4 304Posts total

115.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views5 429this account10 795median for 1M–10M

Reach, %0.37%this account0.47%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %2.03%this account1.25%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	5 429	10 795	0.50×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.37%	0.47%	0.78×
Engagement rate	2.03%	1.25%	1.63×

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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

108.5K31 Aug

5.4K

1.3K1 Sep

Last 3 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.03%31 Aug

1.93%

4.22%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes60.8%1 832 in total

Reposts15.2%457 in total

Replies1.2%37 in total

Quotes1.2%37 in total

Bookmarks21.5%648 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

@PirateWires It's because up until Trump, the Left assumed that free speech would always benefit them and each generation would be more Leftist than the last. The nanosecond that changed, they "shut it down". 1.3K views · 51 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Read it here: https://t.co/cyXIY7hftE 5.4K views · 92 likes · 13 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

In less than a decade, the internet went from free and open to one of the most heavily moderated spaces in public life. Beginning in 2015, every major platform created strict, but extremely vague and opaque, ideological content rules backed up by a colossal moderation and https: 108.5K views · 1.7K likes · 443 reposts · 36 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →