The Advocate ✓

@TheAdvocateMag · Los Angeles, CA · joined 23 Feb 2009

Your source for LGBTQ+ news, since 1967.

287 195Followers

986Following

90 258Posts total

24.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 595this account6 139median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.56%this account2.61%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.94%this account1.39%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	1 595	6 139	0.26×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.56%	2.61%	0.21×
Engagement rate	0.94%	1.39%	0.67×

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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

66213 Jan

17.5K

151

1.9K3 Sep

1.3K

9474 Sep

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

0.60%13 Jan

0.87%

5.96%

2.16%3 Sep

1.24%

0.25%

0.63%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.39%.

What the audience does

Likes60.5%147 in total

Reposts16.0%39 in total

Replies18.5%45 in total

Quotes0.8%2 in total

Bookmarks4.1%10 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

Preston Parra is the latest person in Republican Mike Collins’ orbit to face scrutiny over racist or antisemitic conduct as Collins tries to unseat Sen. Jon Ossoff. https://t.co/46A36iQQ1C 947 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 A recent claim on X drew attention to the cable news network’s growing fixation on the left-wing streamer. https://t.co/wB9h0rAom0 2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Conservatives demanded that college courses be “foundational and fundamental.” LGBTQ+ literature, women’s studies, and Black history may not make the cut. https://t.co/cMIJLNikXp 1.3K views · 8 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 The Supreme Court may allow states to exclude transgender athletes, but that does not mean California must do so, a federal judge ruled. https://t.co/Kh6IPIr7Uz 1.9K views · 30 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 @TheAdvocateMag @dr_demetre That's not why he left. 151 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 13 Jan 2026 Public health expert @dr_demetre is standing up for science in the face of Trump administration attacks. "The CDC is now a weapon. That is why I left. The weaponization of public health is happening, and I am not crying wolf." Read more https://t.co/AcSHLNIJ5m https://t.co/A0FSO 17.5K views · 90 likes · 22 reposts · 39 replies 13 Jan 2026 @dr_demetre Dr. Demetre Daskalakis on leaving the CDC and calling out RFK Jr. https://t.co/AcSHLNIJ5m 662 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 13 Jan 2026