Nick Short ‎‎ ✓

@PoliticalShort · joined 06 Feb 2011

CTO | My better half: @AsheSchow

162 538Followers

4 489Following

26 319Posts total

30.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views2 122this account4 256median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.31%this account1.64%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.31%this account1.36%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	2 122	4 256	0.50×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.31%	1.64%	0.80×
Engagement rate	0.31%	1.36%	0.23×

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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

19.5K24 May

1.5K

2.2K30 Aug

2.2K

2.1K2 Sep

2.7K5 Sep

5176 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.25%24 May

0.74%

0.09%30 Aug

0.23%

0.00%2 Sep

0.48%5 Sep

3.70%

0.39%6 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.36%.

What the audience does

Likes68.1%64 in total

Reposts13.8%13 in total

Replies6.4%6 in total

Quotes1.1%1 in total

Bookmarks10.6%10 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

Created for literally no reason at all, to a demanding fan base that doesn't exist...also, it would have cost Hollywood $500 TRILLION dollars to make a video like this but with Atlas, the script has flipped for only $200/month! 517 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@PoliticalShort Amazing. 54 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Die Hard. Terribly animated. About 8 minutes. Enjoy! Including the iconic Hans ending. https://t.co/WbChGgZH4F https://t.co/zUDxRS34F4 2.7K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Enjoy the salad years https://t.co/uGlWMvjEt1 2.1K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

One of the underrated pleasures of building things for a living: everything you make carries a timestamp. The work remembers who did it, even when people forget. 2.2K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results each time is hopeful but it is also the definition of insanity. 2.2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Remember, most people skim these citations at best, relying more on the perceived authority of the AI than on checking sources. 1.5K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 May 2025 · Open on X →

What purpose will websites serve when major AI platforms can scrape their content, summarize it into narratives, and deliver it directly to users—knowing that few will actually click on the original source? In that model, sites become back-end data sources, not destinations… 19.5K views · 34 likes · 10 reposts · 4 replies 24 May 2025 · Open on X →