Steve Forbes ✓

@SteveForbesCEO · New York, NY · joined 06 Jan 2010

Chairman & Editor-In-Chief, Forbes Media. Host of webcast, What’s Ahead. Co-Author of INFLATION w/ Nathan Lewis & Elizabeth Ames. Author of Flat Tax Revolution

229 739Followers

1 095Following

27 994Posts total

156.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 319this account4 294median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.57%this account1.80%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.88%this account1.48%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	1 319	4 294	0.31×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.57%	1.80%	0.32×
Engagement rate	1.88%	1.48%	1.27×

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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

143K17 Aug

343

350

1.7K4 Sep

2.3K

1.6K

6.4K

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

0.99%17 Aug

2.99%

5.25%

4.86%

0.99%4 Sep

1.95%

1.65%

2.28%

1.82%

0.00%

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

What the audience does

Likes75.5%1 340 in total

Reposts16.8%298 in total

Replies3.8%67 in total

Quotes0.8%15 in total

Bookmarks3.1%55 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

@SteveForbesCEO Price controls on rent don't kill demand — they redirect capital somewhere the return looks better. 26 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @SteveForbesCEO I think the housing debate starts too late when it begins with rent. By the time we debate whether the government should freeze the price or let the market set it, we've already accepted the deeper problem. There aren’t enough homes where people want to live at 55 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Milton Friedman and George Stigler showed 80 years ago that rent ceilings discourage landlords from renting and developers from building. Mamdani doesn't care. New York’s median rent hit a record $5,295 in June as rental listings fell 16%. New Yorkers will pay the price for his 6.4K views · 117 likes · 22 reposts · 4 replies 04 Sep 2026 Thousands of migrants remain in Ceuta, and Spanish authorities have yet to complete basic legal and security screenings required under EU rules. The government’s answer is to call the fallout “disinformation” instead of confronting the consequences of its open-border policies. 1.6K views · 21 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 The DSA found its perfect candidate in Nithya Raman. Her socialist wish list for Los Angeles: government-run businesses, universal health care, and seizing private housing. https://t.co/u0coS5hKv0 2.3K views · 35 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 College football’s free-market system lets teams with money, talent and opportunity reap the rewards. The NFL uses salary caps and revenue sharing to keep its winners from winning too much. Free markets don't always produce equal outcomes. That’s rather the point. 1.7K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 @SteveForbesCEO GET RID OF THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX. Replace with the FairTax. Literally every American would benefit from this, while remaining revenue neutral for the Federal government. 350 views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 17 Aug 2026 @SteveForbesCEO And end local property taxes on homes and land we own. Especially when they keep raising taxes annually on the unrealized gains in property values by some county or city appraiser on your property . Straight up theft just like capital gains are theft by the IRS 343 views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 17 Aug 2026 @SteveForbesCEO Again this is why I believe in a flat tax based on the totality of income regardless of the source or sources. 15% of the totality of income. No deductions no exemptions except for inheritance and savings interest. That is equitable and fair. No special tax breaks 1K views · 29 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 17 Aug 2026 The left loves to call capital-gains relief a gift to the rich. Reality check: 74% of filers with capital gains in 2022 made under $200,000. This isn’t about billionaires. It’s about middle-class savers and homeowners getting taxed on inflation the government created. Index the 143K views · 1.1K likes · 262 reposts · 57 replies 17 Aug 2026