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Kim Bellware

@bellwak · ✶ ✶ Chicago ✶ ✶ · joined 08 Aug 2008

Past: @washingtonpost breaking news reporter ✶ Anxious former freelancer ✶ I prefer DMs via carrier pigeon ✶ signal: bellware.33

10 443Followers
5 889Following
70 801Posts total
35.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views849this account1 045median for 10K–100K
Reach, %8.13%this account3.41%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.82%this account2.02%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post8491 0450.81×
Reach (views ÷ followers)8.13%3.41%2.38×
Engagement rate0.82%2.02%0.41×

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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

34925 Aug
3332 Sep
30.9K
849
1.4K3 Sep
1K4 Sep
277

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

0.86%25 Aug
0.90%2 Sep
0.72%
0.82%
0.43%3 Sep
2.50%4 Sep
0.36%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.02%.

What the audience does

Likes59.8%162 in total
Reposts36.2%98 in total
Replies1.5%4 in total
Quotes1.8%5 in total
Bookmarks0.7%2 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

Spend some time with this very cool story this weekend! 277 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Related to the higher ed discourse, I spent some days with students at the American College of Building Arts—an accredited, 4-yr trade school—to see what the future of liberal arts education might look like. https://t.co/BK91Z2Yvov 1K views · 19 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
The Kalamazoo Gazette (and I imagine others on the list) had already been chopped to just three-day a week delivery. I’m only slightly exaggerating that Sunday paper, which used to be thick as a small town phone book, is barely bigger than the old coupon bundle 1.4K views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Absolutely hate to see this. 849 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Eight Michigan papers -- The Ann Arbor News, The Bay City Times, The Flint Journal, The Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle and The Saginaw News -- will all stop printing physical papers in December but will continue online 30.9K views · 125 likes · 91 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
I remember malort’s popularity really ascending in the late aughts, bundled up with the mostly white, Renegade Craft-types (not a knock, just descriptive) who were into baconmania and maintaining that goofy Flickr page 333 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
21 years later and I’m still mad that Dolly didn’t win the best original song Oscar for “Travelin’ Thru” 349 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

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