Ben Appel ✓

@benappel · New York, NY · joined 01 Apr 2009

Author, CIS WHITE GAY: THE MAKING OF A GENDER HERETIC. Words in The Atlantic, WSJ, NY Post, Free Press, Newsweek, and elsewhere. Visit https://t.co/hx52vRDbHl.

18 752Followers

2 000Following

6 774Posts total

107.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ben Appel ✓@benappel4 Sep

Got to chat about my book, religious fundamentalism, woke culture, Columbia, and bunch of other things with @SemperFemina21 on her Saving Culture channel. Listeners are finding a lot to relate to here. Check it out. https://t.co/A7JXH3CbFE https://t.co/tzE7sRt0HN 659 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Appel ✓@benappel4 Sep

So glad! I enjoyed it too. Thank you for having me, @SemperFemina21 450 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Appel ✓@benappel3 Sep

This is the first page of my book. You can purchase it through the link in my bio. https://t.co/6LrSMXLQJs 643 views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Appel ✓@benappel3 Sep

https://t.co/QYE6YJjqFw 834 views · 42 likes · 7 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ben Appel ✓@benappel30 Nov 2025

https://t.co/taORIiJWp2 1.1K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Appel ✓@benappel3 Nov 2025

@benappel Wow! Love to see this. Huge congratulations to you! 1.9K views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Appel ✓@benappel2 Nov 2025

I’ve been coming to Barnes & Noble since I was a kid. Today they’re selling my memoir. https://t.co/fVJowZxFzF 101.8K views · 1.5K likes · 83 reposts · 106 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views651this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.47%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.77%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	651	924	0.70×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.47%	3.62%	0.96×
Engagement rate	1.77%	1.52%	1.17×

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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

101.8K2 Nov

1.9K3 Nov

1.1K30 Nov

8343 Sep

643

4504 Sep

659

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

1.71%2 Nov

0.95%3 Nov

0.66%30 Nov

6.47%3 Sep

2.33%

0.22%4 Sep

1.21%

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

What the audience does

Likes83.8%1 630 in total

Reposts4.7%91 in total

Replies5.8%112 in total

Quotes0.6%11 in total

Bookmarks5.2%102 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.