The Maine Wire ✓

@TheMaineWire · Maine · joined 13 Dec 2011

The Way Life Is. Maine's fastest growing investigative reporting outlet. Keepers of the Sword of Truth

63 369Followers

10 070Following

33 219Posts total

66KViews on collected posts

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The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire9 Sep

Funny note on this story: The approved design was for two swings. As you can see in the photo, it didn't quite turn out like that. https://t.co/mxo6nZaXgY

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The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire9 Sep

Resistance member can't get enough of Fethy - @MaineWireJon https://t.co/c4dQzOg0cK

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The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire9 Sep

@TheMaineWire O My Freaking God.. just when you think it can't get any worse. First they spent $140K on those public bathrooms that got destroyed -- but $60,000 for a freaking SWING?? And all the rest of that money they're spending - while the woods are full of moldy tents, tras 123 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire9 Sep

Full story with more details here: https://t.co/CGnfe2j4dA 854 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire9 Sep

Bangor taxpayers spent $60k on a swing. In 2024, Bangor approved a $960,596 contract for a variety of improvements to Pickering Square. The Maine Wire obtained details on the project, including itemized costs of the improvements, through a FOAA request. In addition to the http

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The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire8 Sep

Womp, Womp: Somali Refugee Accused of MaineCare Fraud Loses $1 Million Home After Tax Liens FULL STORY: https://t.co/dtdBg3Epmh https://t.co/MIq8aAhrFU

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The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire2 Sep

@TheMaineWire How does Maine just pay whatever is billed for this type of care, but has guidelines and maximums they’ll pay for other medical care under MaineCare? Total lack of controls. 272 views · 21 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire2 Sep

@TheMaineWire @CWeaver8712 HALF A MILLION DOLLARS PER CLIENT….what the fuck… 285 views · 27 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire2 Sep

@TheMaineWire We all need to wake up. This is happening all over the country. Why do you think certain RINOs are sabotaging the Save America Act? Labor money is protecting all of this. 570 views · 36 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

The Maine Wire ✓@TheMaineWire1 Sep

EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower exposes Maine's most expensive autism-home company Quality Care Access bills MaineCare approximately $471,000/client annually. The national median for similar care is $73,000. Do they provide exceptional care in return? Well, watch for yourself: https

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

Median views1 382this account998median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.18%this account3.68%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.26%this account1.63%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 382	998	1.39×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.18%	3.68%	0.59×
Engagement rate	3.26%	1.63%	2.01×

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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

52.3K1 Sep

5702 Sep

285

272

2.3K8 Sep

5.4K9 Sep

854

123

1.9K

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

2.31%1 Sep

7.72%2 Sep

9.47%

9.19%

3.67%8 Sep

2.86%9 Sep

0.59%

4.88%

1.92%

1.36%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes62.1%1 083 in total

Reposts24.0%418 in total

Replies4.8%83 in total

Quotes2.1%37 in total

Bookmarks7.1%124 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.

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