Alex Seitz-Wald ✓

@aseitzwald · Lincolnville, Maine · joined 13 Oct 2009

Small-town newspaper editor in Maine for the Midcoast Villager, former senior national political reporter for NBC News. Dad. Hobby collector.

60 354Followers

3 425Following

23 603Posts total

353.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views24 301this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %40.26%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.60%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	24 301	3 383	7.18×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	40.26%	10.96%	3.67×
Engagement rate	0.60%	1.40%	0.43×

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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

84.2K1 Sep

70.8K2 Sep

1.5K

28.4K

20.2K

138.9K3 Sep

4.6K

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

0.42%1 Sep

0.34%2 Sep

0.69%

0.29%

0.72%

3.66%3 Sep

0.96%

0.52%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes85.0%5 259 in total

Reposts8.1%501 in total

Replies2.2%134 in total

Quotes1.4%84 in total

Bookmarks3.4%208 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

We love to see it 4.6K views · 23 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Wow cool, the New York Times did a 36 Hours about Midcoast Maine! Wonder who they wrote it. Computer, enhance. Oh my goodness that’s @lucia_graves! https://t.co/Luv6UJt7yp https://t.co/x66A0MUL4S 4.6K views · 40 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, Washington. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities h 138.9K views · 4.5K likes · 440 reposts · 69 replies 03 Sep 2026 Bingo. Why I thought Platner’s fancy family, time at boarding school and GW, experience tending bar on Capitol Hill, was as much a feature as a bug. Allowed him to speak New York Times in the morning and working waterfront in the even earlier morning. 20.2K views · 110 likes · 14 reposts · 16 replies 02 Sep 2026 I'm sitting at the counter of the @MaineVillager cafe in Camden as I type this and a big local Platner donor+booster who is co-hosting a fundraiser for Jackson this week just walked up to me, completely unprompted to say paraphrasing), 'I know Jackson is the real deal, but 28.4K views · 60 likes · 5 reposts · 14 replies 02 Sep 2026 Hey @kylegordon101, I think I found Mr. Jambo in Maine, which I hear the ancient scrolls refer to as the Africa of New England. https://t.co/B7OKM2rdtw 1.5K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Talked about this with @aseitzwald before the candidate swap — Platner, just in his life pitching oysters, was good at selling an *idea* of rural Maine to upscale tourists because he had a lot in common with them. Jackson is too real! https://t.co/l5rCLJuyty 70.8K views · 210 likes · 14 reposts · 13 replies 02 Sep 2026 Lots of these Dem primary voters want someone who *appears* working class but has the political and cultural fluency of the elite https://t.co/Uh8XTFcqDD 84.2K views · 295 likes · 28 reposts · 17 replies 01 Sep 2026