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Ross Barkan

@RossBarkan · ross@rossbarkan.com · joined 19 Oct 2011

Novels include GLASS CENTURY and COLOSSUS. Editor-in-Chief of @the_met_review. Words in many places.

40 696Followers
997Following
48 261Posts total
1.1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views62 133this account3 383median for 10K–100K
Reach, %152.68%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.22%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post62 1333 38318.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)152.68%10.96%13.9×
Engagement rate0.22%1.40%0.16×

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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

9.3K12 Aug
59K
236.2K13 Aug
241.3K
10.1K
62.1K
453.2K19 Aug

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

0.47%12 Aug
0.14%
0.14%13 Aug
0.38%
0.12%
0.79%
0.22%19 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes72.7%2 310 in total
Reposts5.5%175 in total
Replies9.1%290 in total
Quotes3.4%109 in total
Bookmarks9.2%293 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

A statement from me: https://t.co/wrv5GBlGAR 453.2K views · 742 likes · 55 reposts · 140 replies 19 Aug 2026 Bernie is older than Biden but leagues sharper. It's a reminder that for all the age discourse, the actual trouble for Biden was his inability to string sentences together. If he spoke like this in 2024, he could've fought it out with Trump. 62.1K views · 418 likes · 21 reposts · 41 replies 13 Aug 2026 A significant essay in @the_met_review this week. https://t.co/3afFGcNODE 10.1K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 13 Aug 2026 “I don't think there's anybody in the Democratic caucus who has a lower rating among Democrats than John [Fetterman] does.” Senator @BernieSanders and @mehdirhasan discuss John Fetterman’s “sad state of affairs.” Watch the full interview, link in replies. https://t.co/pmPtsnuSb 241.3K views · 791 likes · 80 reposts · 24 replies 13 Aug 2026 I'd be curious to see high quality numbers on Long Island vs. Westchester. Two suburbs of NYC with diverging politics. Westchester is a typical suburb moving left, Long Island remains MAGA. 236.2K views · 291 likes · 8 reposts · 33 replies 13 Aug 2026 Mamdani political liability in NY suburbs, but still uber-popular in NYC: poll https://t.co/5fSJKrG3Ds https://t.co/xJ7eOBPdME 59K views · 35 likes · 11 reposts · 30 replies 12 Aug 2026 A question for the politics obsessives on Twitter/X. I have my own theories but wanted to hear from you. Brooklyn and Queens have equal progressive energy, but the reform movement in Queens has yet to make much change to county machine politics. Why? 9.3K views · 25 likes · 0 reposts · 18 replies 12 Aug 2026

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