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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅

@ZeyiYang · NYC · joined 09 Aug 2018

Two cats in a trench coat writing about China. he/him, 外星人. DM is open. Ask for Signal/Protonmail/etc.

16 211Followers
1 654Following
2 133Posts total
128KViews 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 views854this account1 328median for 10K–100K
Reach, %5.26%this account4.18%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.44%this account1.94%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post8541 3280.64×
Reach (views ÷ followers)5.26%4.18%1.26×
Engagement rate0.44%1.94%0.23×

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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

20.4K1 Oct
10.5K14 Aug
1K19 Aug
40.5K25 Aug
69226 Aug
25.6K28 Aug
28.6K31 Aug
164
12
100
4631 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.31%1 Oct
0.13%14 Aug
0.30%19 Aug
0.19%25 Aug
0.58%26 Aug
0.21%28 Aug
1.96%31 Aug
1.83%
0.00%
3.00%
1.51%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.94%.

What the audience does

Likes71.4%630 in total
Reposts7.9%70 in total
Replies8.4%74 in total
Quotes1.7%15 in total
Bookmarks10.5%93 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

@ZeyiYang @nytimes congrats! is chinese science different from non Chinese science? 463 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 @ZeyiYang @nytimes Congratulations, Zeyi! Excited to work with you. 👏 100 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 @ZeyiYang Another problem and major one is that it’s an occupied place forcibly by China. 12 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 @ZeyiYang @nytimes Congratulations Zeyi! 164 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 Told my mum I wanted to be a scientist at 10; ended up a science journo. That counts…right? But hi, I’ll be @NYTimes’ new China Science Correspondent. If you are a Chinese scientist in or outside China, on the fence, floating around…I’d love to talk! https://t.co/k91oJt78bs 28.6K views · 457 likes · 35 reposts · 62 replies 31 Aug 2026 SCOOP: Pig-butchering scammers have used enterprise apps like Teams & Webex to defraud Chinese victims and erase evidence afterwards. Desperate victims then resolve to leave angry app store reviews: in the past 18 months, 30% of Teams' reviews and 71% ‼️of Webex's reviews are 25.6K views · 37 likes · 9 reposts · 5 replies 28 Aug 2026 @ZeyiYang Water isn't necessarily a problem, Yellow River flows through Inner Mongolia. 692 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 ICYMI from the newsletter: Chinese AI companies are rushing to build data centers in Inner Mongolia, "the West Virginia of China" that enjoys cheap electricity due to an abundant supply of solar, wind, but also coal power. There's just one problem: water. https://t.co/TtDvi6PxPi 40.5K views · 59 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies 25 Aug 2026 Replugging this from last week as Unitree just went public today 1K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 You must have seen this clanker already: 4-foot-tall, hollowed out face, blue glow light, aluminum body. In 2026, it’s become the humanoid robot of choice for clout-seeking, crowd-pleasing jobs: dancing, flirting, chasing hogs, begging for money, being bullied on livestream, etc. 10.5K views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 14 Aug 2026 In college, I'd always walk past an unremarkable store in Beijing that sold trendy but tacky toys. That store has turned into Pop Mart, $45-billion Chinese toy empire behind Labubu, the biggest fad of 2025. This is my big story to explain how they got here https://t.co/nP1vbzdj1g 20.4K views · 51 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies 01 Oct 2025

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