Bethany McLean

@bethanymac12 · Chicago, IL · joined 09 Sep 2013

Journalist. Mother of teenage girls who make merciless fun of anything else I say, so I will say nothing else.

36 034Followers

1 007Following

5 667Posts total

101.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views2 803this account1 637median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.78%this account5.01%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.44%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 803	1 637	1.71×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.78%	5.01%	1.55×
Engagement rate	0.44%	1.81%	0.24×

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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

3.4K15 Aug

24.1K18 Aug

253

2.1K21 Aug

1829 Aug

2.6K

60.7K30 Aug

3.1K

2K31 Aug

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.32%15 Aug

0.90%18 Aug

0.00%

0.66%21 Aug

5.56%29 Aug

0.70%

0.55%30 Aug

0.16%

0.30%

0.20%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.

What the audience does

Likes40.0%485 in total

Reposts7.3%89 in total

Replies2.1%26 in total

Quotes1.2%14 in total

Bookmarks49.4%599 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

@bethanymac12 @Ritholtz maybe. few thoughts, during the housing crisis, what was the rate of increase of the income of those mortgage holders on ARMs? how does that compare to the companies in the AI buildout? secondly, a major blank of this argument rests on OpenAi and Anthrop 2K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 @bethanymac12 @Ritholtz Clearly co-written by Claude. 3K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 30 Aug 2026 @bethanymac12 @Ritholtz Yes - This is exactly why Paulson backed up the truck to buy CDS contracts. Wonder who’s doing that now … 3.1K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 30 Aug 2026 As someone who wrote about the financial crisis, I found this very eye opening. H/T @ritholtz https://t.co/6DB8o6dQa1 60.7K views · 259 likes · 51 reposts · 15 replies 30 Aug 2026 We assumed chess was one of the hardest thing a mind could do, but it was the first thing computers mastered. @lugaricano on what that inversion means for your career, and why he thinks the panic about AI and jobs is misplaced—well, somewhat misplaced. https://t.co/17PrCw2zbb ht 2.6K views · 14 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 29 Aug 2026 @bethanymac12 @DAcemogluMIT @zingales we really went full circle on this one lol 18 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 Let them eat screens. https://t.co/6xA9TSKJLD via @NYTimes 2.1K views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 21 Aug 2026 @bethanymac12 @DAcemogluMIT @zingales Will #AI lower wages? Only where reskilling lags. UAE golden visas and AI education prove talent investment beats displacement #AI #MachineLearning Cc 253 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 18 Aug 2026 A tool that makes you better at your job can also make you poorer? @DAcemogluMIT and @zingales and I discuss why “AI will empower workers" may be misleading on our latest Capitalisn’t podcast: https://t.co/XyMeovOaXF https://t.co/xTWutI3Tv8 24.1K views · 178 likes · 32 reposts · 3 replies 18 Aug 2026 Is there anyone out there who’s running a startup and trying to decide between ongoing VC funding or going public? I’d love to chat if so. Please DM me. 3.4K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 15 Aug 2026