David Bernstein ✓

@ProfDBernstein · Arlington, VA · joined 03 Dec 2013

My views are my own and do not reflect the views of my university or the state of Virginia.

36 727Followers

732Following

41 831Posts total

39.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views2 429this account2 392median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.61%this account7.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.33%this account1.50%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 429	2 392	1.02×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.61%	7.18%	0.92×
Engagement rate	2.33%	1.50%	1.55×

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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

2.9K3 Sep

27.6K

1.3K4 Sep

3.3K

1.1K

2.4K

708

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.80%3 Sep

2.32%

0.98%4 Sep

2.57%

5.64%

3.09%

1.98%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.50%.

What the audience does

Likes75.8%706 in total

Reposts18.2%169 in total

Replies3.0%28 in total

Quotes1.2%11 in total

Bookmarks1.8%17 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

As I pointed out in my book, "You Can't Say That!," the ACLU supported the Bob Jones revocation at the time, despite the obvious civil liberties problems it raised. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, I expect the ACLU will take the opposite position. https://t.co/1HWjpClm51 708 views · 9 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 It's worse than explicitly antisemitic, it's explicitly wanting Jewish institutions to be subject to intimidation and violence from DSA types, by singling out a nonprofit that protects Jewish institutions. They figure they can politically intimidate the authorities into not 2.4K views · 62 likes · 12 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Ever time Jones tries to present the far left humanist case for “antizionism” his hardcore followers speak us and insist, no “we support genocidal islamists and extremist nationalists you would consider hardcore fascists in any other context.” https://t.co/1eHQgLZmh1 1.1K views · 49 likes · 8 reposts · 6 replies 04 Sep 2026 If a commercial boycott is free speech, every civil rights law that bans private discrimination violates the first amendment. There is no viable distinction between “boycott” and “refuse to contract with.” 3.3K views · 72 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 Yes. 1.3K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 I hadn't noticed this before, but the @dsa_losangeles platform is explicitly antisemitic. It singles out only one nonprofit security organization, Magen Am, a Jewish community group that protects synagogues and schools (and has nothing to do with Israel). https://t.co/glyq8R5ezj 27.6K views · 485 likes · 128 reposts · 19 replies 03 Sep 2026 In Bob Jones University v. U.S. (1983), the Supreme Court ruled that the government could revoke the non-profit status of religious institutions simply because they violated some uncodified "government policy." This was always a recipe for the imposition of state ideology. 2.9K views · 17 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026