Quillette

@Quillette · Earth · joined 04 Oct 2015

Ten Years of Ideas. 📧 subscribe: https://t.co/kvbibIktQY

213 134Followers

296Following

23 611Posts total

30.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 790this account4 294median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.25%this account1.80%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.30%this account1.48%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 790	4 294	1.12×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.25%	1.80%	1.25×
Engagement rate	0.30%	1.48%	0.20×

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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

6.9K3 Sep

116

4.8K

4.8K4 Sep

8.4K5 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

0.52%3 Sep

1.49%

0.08%

2.59%

0.00%

0.08%

0.29%4 Sep

0.31%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.48%.

What the audience does

Likes57.5%61 in total

Reposts15.1%16 in total

Replies7.5%8 in total

Quotes2.8%3 in total

Bookmarks17.0%18 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

.@clairlemon in conversation with Sydney psychiatrist and author @drtahmed about the growing tendency to turn mental-health diagnoses into identities—and how this can become self-limiting. More here: https://t.co/urKLRudhMm https://t.co/rqHng5Mhvi 8.4K views · 19 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 Sydney psychiatrist @drtahmed on why men who quit work aren't depressed but demoralised, and how mental health labels became a rival source of status and dignity. https://t.co/dWA9eIoU43 4.8K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 Billed as “an American docudrama,” Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, directed by Anna D. Shapiro and written by Eric Bentley, recently ended a two-month run at the New York City Center. For New York theatre-goers, the hook was pre-sold and high concept: a period drama about the 4.8K views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @Quillette @stephencdawson the greatest human rights outrage in australian history 45 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @Quillette @stephencdawson One of the biggest unrecognised causes of the illegal tobacco trade is the Gillard Government changing duty free tobacco allowance from one carton to one packet. It directly transferred the tax free market from legitimate, tax paying companies to cri 116 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 The Trump administration does not know how to use American power to expand American influence, and its officials do not care to learn, writes @bstewart1776. https://t.co/vOavPDS691 5K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @Quillette @stephencdawson Remember the Laffer Curve? https://t.co/1DNmao5myY 67 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Australia taxed cigarettes into the stratosphere to kill smoking. Instead it built a black market. One Canberra man (@stephencdawson) logged 972 discarded packs over two years — ~3 in 4 were illegal imports. https://t.co/Q7TOVYUXSD 6.9K views · 25 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026