Ben Casselman ✓

@bencasselman · joined 16 Sep 2008

Econ reporter @nytimes. Formerly @fivethirtyeight @WSJ. Adjunct @newmarkjschool. He/him ben.casselman@nytimes.com Signal: bencasselman.96 Photo: Earl Wilson/NY

69 904Followers

2 970Following

38 530Posts total

34.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

13 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 172this account1 133median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.68%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.52%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 172	1 133	1.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.68%	3.62%	0.46×
Engagement rate	0.52%	2.00%	0.26×

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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

2.2K28 Aug

2.9K31 Aug

9.9K4 Sep

1.2K

7.2K

5.2K

826

586

979

838

1.9K

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.40%28 Aug

0.52%31 Aug

0.19%4 Sep

0.68%

0.35%

1.28%

0.17%

0.85%

0.72%

0.36%

0.53%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes56.1%83 in total

Reposts17.6%26 in total

Replies10.1%15 in total

Quotes4.1%6 in total

Bookmarks12.2%18 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

@bencasselman Meanwhile in Spain we'd throw a party for +70k/month 😂 But yeah, the cooling trend since 2021 is hard to ignore. 3 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Seeing some posts about the divergence between BLS and ADP. But on a one-month basis, such gaps aren't at all unusual. And on a 12-month basis, the two sources are closely aligned. https://t.co/ULH37jFugm 1.9K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Despite today's upward revisions to June/July, monthly revisions have continued to be negative on average, though not as sharply so as early last year. https://t.co/F56bV7vsq4 838 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

A hint of good news on the data-collection front: Collection rates for the preliminary payrolls estimate has been edging up. Hints of stabilization but no real improvement in household survey response rates. https://t.co/em8PCrjMfm 979 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Job losses in Information and Financial Services continued in August. But professional services have continued to grow. There's no consistent pattern in white-collar industries. https://t.co/hdbDDMszk4 586 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

The big drop in public school employment in July looked like a seasonal quirk, and it was -- it rebounded sharply in August. But the larger downtrend is real -- local public education employment leveled off last fall and has been falling this year. https://t.co/tSQqONSYLh 826 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

The participation rate ticked up in August, but held steady for prime-age (25-54) workers. The sharp drop in prime-age participation in June looked like a fluke at the time, but it hasn't bounced back. Starting to look like the fluke was the jump up last year. https://t.co/ESQPFa 5.2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent, and has now been at or under 4.5 percent for a record 59 consecutive months. https://t.co/DJH2cXPF80 1K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Job growth accelerated in August, and June/July were revised up (in July's case, from a small decline to a small gain). Three-month average is at about +70k/month, up from about +10k/month last year (but down from +122k in 2024). https://t.co/StZVjpTarz 7.2K views · 14 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

June and July were both revised up modestly, by a combined 55,000. July was revised from -23k to +21k. 1.2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

U.S. employers added an unexpectedly strong 162,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent. Data: https://t.co/6lorYRBdoy Full coverage: https://t.co/yz3GMemsrJ 9.9K views · 10 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of the idea that economics should be accessible to all, not locked away behind jargon. What, you haven't heard of her? That's no accident, as @jeannasmialek explains in a new book that I am *so excited* to read. Excerpt: https://t.co/UyTKCG6alW 2.9K views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

This year's annual "benchmark" revisions will reduce estimated employment by just 79,000 jobs, per preliminary data from @BLS_gov. That's an encouraging sign after two years of unusually large downward revisions. https://t.co/3nZUGPmxyB 2.2K views · 5 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →