Alex Kane

@alexbkane · Brooklyn · joined 04 Aug 2009

Senior staff reporter @jewishcurrents. Write on the politics of Israel/Palestine in the US. E-mail: alex@jewishcurrents.org

24 969Followers

3 991Following

32 089Posts total

484.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Alex Kane@alexbkane31 Aug

David Morales, the democratic socialist running for mayor to knock out an establishment pro-Israel Democrat, is leading in a new poll: https://t.co/txDLzRhsqz 11.4K views · 171 likes · 36 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Alex Kane@alexbkane29 Aug

This is a move Michigan Jews have long pushed for—and it’s a move towards liberal Zionists without giving up on core foreign policy ideas. I’d imagine that some endorsements from Jewish officials more favorable to El-Sayed will now come, though not from someone like Rep. Arbit 22.2K views · 152 likes · 15 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Alex Kane@alexbkane29 Aug

(NYT) “I Made a Mistake”: Abdul El-Sayed Apologizes for Comment About Synagogue Attack Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, apologized to a group of Jewish Democrats on Saturday for a statement he made in March about an attack on a synagogue near 373.1K views · 341 likes · 60 reposts · 126 replies Open on X →

Alex Kane@alexbkane26 Aug

The logic is there’s no viable alternative, and he is a NY rep and as speaker can deliver Mamdani major wins in the form of funding. The votes aren’t there for Medicare for All anyway. (Before you yell at me this is not a defense, just explaining the logic…) 799 views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Alex Kane@alexbkane26 Aug

Big-time crackdown on a direct action pro-Palestine group that disrupts the weapons pipeline to Israel 8.4K views · 137 likes · 41 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Alex Kane@alexbkane26 Aug

Mamdani is not even in congress, he could say nothing. Instead he insists on repeatedly endorsing a pro genocide politician who supports the for profit health insurance industry for speaker of house. Why??? Someone explain the logic to me 66.8K views · 2.4K likes · 476 reposts · 151 replies Open on X →

Alex Kane@alexbkane24 Aug

Hostile towards Piker, conciliatory towards El-Sayed, and most notably—a statement that he doesn’t support Mike Rogers and his extremism. 2K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

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

Median views11 378this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %45.57%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.87%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	11 378	924	12.3×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	45.57%	3.62%	12.6×
Engagement rate	0.87%	1.52%	0.57×

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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

2K24 Aug

66.8K26 Aug

8.4K

799

373.1K29 Aug

22.2K

11.4K31 Aug

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

0.65%24 Aug

4.56%26 Aug

2.12%

0.75%

0.16%29 Aug

0.87%

1.85%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes74.4%3 205 in total

Reposts14.7%631 in total

Replies7.1%304 in total

Quotes2.5%109 in total

Bookmarks1.3%56 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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