Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper · joined 06 Nov 2022

Staff writer @TheAtlantic. Co-host of the Time To Say Goodbye podcast (@ttsgpod). Gone fishing.

54 193Followers

2 846Following

28 319Posts total

9.9MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 069 452this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1973.41%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.84%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 069 452	2 896	369×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	19.7× audience	9.51%	208×
Engagement rate	0.84%	1.56%	0.54×

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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

1.4M4 Sep

1.2M

3.4M27 Aug

1.6M29 Aug

495.8K31 Aug

1.8M

8.8K3 Sep

2.9K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.02%4 Sep

0.06%

0.10%27 Aug

1.38%29 Aug

0.20%31 Aug

0.44%

1.24%3 Sep

1.46%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes82.0%31 393 in total

Reposts5.9%2 268 in total

Replies4.5%1 712 in total

Quotes1.8%698 in total

Bookmarks5.7%2 197 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

Here’s the relevant part of the Harvard dean’s email, in which he suggests (“modestly”) that professors teaching writing intensive courses should encourage AI use. And of course this gets dressed up in woke moralizing about policing students and damaging “trust.” End times stuff. 2.9K views · 26 likes · 6 reposts · 6 replies 03 Sep 2026 Last month I reported on Harvard's shuttered writing center. The official line was that the closing of the center was not about de-valuing writing. Now Harvard's dean—David Deming—is calling for "AI acceptance or even encouragement" in writing courses. 1/ https://t.co/SKnNTSYeVg 8.8K views · 79 likes · 14 reposts · 9 replies 03 Sep 2026 People are under-pricing the possibility of a black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly. At some point parents will decide they will not pay $100-400k combined for their kids to cheat their way through college. I expect a bang, not a whimper. 1.8M views · 6.8K likes · 503 reposts · 429 replies 31 Aug 2026 Higher ed has been contracting for a decade. Depending on how you count, around 100 or more four-year institutions have closed in that time. The closures and mergers are likely to accelerate in the next ten years. A range of 2-300 more seems very possible. https://t.co/9hIsiHYBtV 495.8K views · 840 likes · 78 reposts · 39 replies 31 Aug 2026 I was on NPR recently talking about higher ed and one thing I said and deeply believe is that 95% of college athletic programs have no reason to exist. They’re a huge money suck, yet we have been brainwashed into acting as if playing sports in college is a sacred human right. 1.6M views · 20.1K likes · 1.4K reposts · 985 replies 29 Aug 2026 University of Alabama’s new $47M golf facility is absolutely insane 👀https://t.co/AcysLlL3ex 3.4M views · 2.8K likes · 238 reposts · 161 replies 27 Aug 2026 I wrote about Montauk, a fisherman, and a dying extreme sport for the October Issue. It’s a story of a gentrifying town, a changing ocean, obsession on the knife-edge of madness, and a man who swims through shark-infested water—at night—in pursuit of a great American fish. 🧵 1.2M views · 599 likes · 52 reposts · 76 replies 04 Sep 2024 “Wetsuiters” swim out into the surf at night, often during storms, and spend hours in the darkness attempting to catch striped bass. @Tyler_A_Harper reports on this alluring and addicting sport—and why he can’t get enough of it: https://t.co/0DdVQFq5h9 1.4M views · 174 likes · 23 reposts · 7 replies 04 Sep 2024