Benjamin Ryan ✓

@benryanwriter · New York City · joined 13 Aug 2013

Independent investigative journalist Contact via Signal: benryan.23 Subscribe: https://t.co/dQRHZHqWHn

50 805Followers

3 958Following

85 781Posts total

763.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views3 966this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.81%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.10%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 966	2 896	1.37×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.81%	9.51%	0.82×
Engagement rate	1.10%	1.56%	0.71×

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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

539.7K2 Sep

206.6K

6.4K

3.8K3 Sep

4.1K

1.3K

796

368

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

0.22%2 Sep

0.09%

0.70%

2.35%3 Sep

1.62%

3.85%

1.51%

0.54%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes68.3%1 280 in total

Reposts10.3%193 in total

Replies5.3%99 in total

Quotes4.7%88 in total

Bookmarks11.4%214 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

Ross Barkan Keeps Posting Pieces Undermining Claims He Was At Fault Pundit Ross Barkan, who was accused of plagiarism and ultimately found to have problems with 67 of his columns for @NYMag—he then parted ways with the magazine—issued a mea culpa last month and a resolution to h 368 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I'd call this below the bar. 796 views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 It boggles the mind that Carole Cadwalladr has been devoted to twisting Jason Arday's story into a post-truth pretzel and yet she gave a joint talk at the Cambridge Union Society called "What is the Truth?" Good question! @CaroleCadwalla does not appear positioned to answer it. 1.3K views · 42 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 For Substack, @SwipeWright and I cover the Cambridge Faculty of Education PhD thesis by Damilola Folayan, on whose thesis review panel Jason Arday sat. The thesis was put under an unusually long embargo right after the scandal about Dr. Arday broke. We write that the thsis is "in 4.1K views · 53 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Concerns about racist motivations in the effort to investigate Jason Arday are valid and should be addressed. But yet again, Carole Cadwalladr has published a post-truth article about him that all but dismisses his own egregious faults. Two things can be true: people seeking to 3.8K views · 71 likes · 8 reposts · 9 replies 03 Sep 2026 Did @RossBarkan Plagiarize? I followed the lead of the Zonal Motel Substack and asked Claude's Fable tool to rigorously analyze the 67 @NYMag columns of Ross Barkan's that were found to have problems in the wake of plagiarism accusations against him. Included in these four ht 6.4K views · 28 likes · 7 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 Lawyer disciplined by NC State Bar for sending photo of his genitals to opposition https://t.co/LckgDZCsfZ 206.6K views · 105 likes · 17 reposts · 21 replies 02 Sep 2026 Cambridge Said Jason Arday Was an ‘Aberration.’ So Why Was the Shaky PhD Thesis He Approved Sealed Until 2031? Substack link: https://t.co/BQiIdRegdB @SwipeWright and I obtained a Cambridge PhD thesis—one of questionable academic rigor—that Dr. Arday examined and that was put htt 539.7K views · 970 likes · 146 reposts · 55 replies 02 Sep 2026