Ryan P. Williams ✓

@RpwWilliams · joined 24 May 2013

President, Claremont Institute; Publisher CRB and The American Mind. Proud Hillsdale College alum. Views are mine and don’t reflect institutional position.

13 442Followers

1 993Following

6 552Posts total

873.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views11 357this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %84.49%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.86%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	11 357	2 578	4.41×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	84.49%	7.77%	10.9×
Engagement rate	0.86%	1.47%	0.58×

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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

6.3K28 Aug

477.6K1 Sep

56.1K

16.4K

58.2K

5.6K

9152 Sep

248.3K3 Sep

3694 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.37%28 Aug

0.90%1 Sep

0.24%

1.27%

0.14%

1.49%

0.66%2 Sep

1.83%

2.39%3 Sep

0.81%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes77.5%9 277 in total

Reposts8.5%1 015 in total

Replies2.8%339 in total

Quotes1.7%202 in total

Bookmarks9.5%1 140 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

Great story 369 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 The highlight of my literary life was meeting Jorge Luis Borges in the early 1980s. He recited Shakespeare soliloquies from memory and told a group of about 5 or 6 of us how he would improve them. Then he recited the improved versions. They were better. From this we were 248.3K views · 5.4K likes · 433 reposts · 87 replies 03 Sep 2026 .@docMJP’s FORUM next week in Dallas will feature a host of lively, intelligent, and important discussions. @ClaremontInst is happy to be a sponsor and I look forward to leading one of the sessions. 4K views · 56 likes · 11 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 Insightful thread on what Paxton needs to win ($ to drive Talarico ‘destruction’) and the possible sources (and Paxton headwinds). 915 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Lots of assertion here, with virtually no evidence (not much has changed since a similar tweet last year around Long’s departure from ISI’s board). Anyone who thinks ISI’s programming is a “gateway” to the DSA is completely unfamiliar with the fine people who work there or how 5.6K views · 76 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 This was never my side of the house, but you see a thing or two over the years even if you’re official. There are basically five or so pots of money here: (1) Paxton campaign, (2) NRSC/RNC, (3) SLF, (4) MAGA Inc., (5) assorted other pacs. 58.2K views · 58 likes · 5 reposts · 6 replies 01 Sep 2026 This is a major *material* sign of our declining ability as a people to participate responsibly in self-government. It isn’t unrelated to the moral and intellectual decline of republican responsibility, of course, but the categories should first be examined discretely. 16.4K views · 174 likes · 26 reposts · 9 replies 01 Sep 2026 One year ago, @ISI was hijacked by Post-America, NatCon, Postliberals who now teach ISI students the exact opposite of what its founders and donors intended. ISI students are now being spoon fed Distributism, Welfare Statism, and “Common Good” Constitutionalism. ISI is now a 56.1K views · 64 likes · 11 reposts · 32 replies 01 Sep 2026 Our great national tragedy: "Today, most U.S. counties depend on a level of government transfer income that was once reserved only for the most distressed places. In 1970, not even 1 percent of counties derived a quarter or more of their total personal income from transfers. In 477.6K views · 3.5K likes · 519 reposts · 198 replies 01 Sep 2026 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: Ryan Williams is joining us in Dallas. As President of @ClaremontInst and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind, Ryan Williams has spent years helping shape the intellectual direction of the American Right. On September 9, he htt 6.3K views · 17 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026