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Barbara F Walter ✓

@bfwalter · joined 17 Apr 2009

Making sense of what's really happening in our country. Author of How Civil Wars Start. Member of the NAS. Prof at UCSD. I write Here Be Dragons on Substack.

13 629Followers
397Following
760Posts total
1.6MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

@bfwalter You employee illegals? Isn't that a crime? Why would you not hire an American? 51.4K views · 6.7K likes · 175 reposts · 86 replies Open on X →
@bfwalter 25 years and he couldn't get legal,? 232 views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@bfwalter Why was he here for 28 years without pursuing a legal way to stay? Lol? 60.9K views · 8K likes · 106 reposts · 79 replies Open on X →
@bfwalter You sound just the same as the old democrat slave owners who didn’t want to give up their slaves 293 views · 22 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@bfwalter Under the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1324a, it is strictly illegal for any person or entity to hire, recruit, or continue to employ an alien while knowing they are unauthorized to work. @ICEgov This person knowingly hired an illega 397 views · 20 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
@bfwalter Hopefully he gets deported quickly so we can move on to the next illegal. Try hiring an American. 9.2K views · 1.4K likes · 7 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
@bfwalter Not surprised democrats fought to keep slaves. They continue to do it today. 52.5K views · 7.8K likes · 138 reposts · 42 replies Open on X →
I have an update on my gardener who was taken by ICE. Three big things have happened since then. 1. The neighbors have all come together to help. We hired a good immigration lawyer for him. We also found someone willing to serve as his financial sponsor. That matters because h
1.4M views · 18.3K likes · 3.8K reposts · 10.2K replies Open on X →
My longtime gardener was taken by ICE this past weekend. He has been in the U.S. 25 years, has built a team of gardeners and landscapers that everyone loves, and leaves me in awe of his hard, hard labor, honesty, and kindness. He is exactly the kind of person who has made this
13.2K views · 143 likes · 32 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →
Trump thought these clowns would help him. They're not. https://t.co/249mQ2VX1F https://t.co/hPZBuzEfyT
1.9K views · 15 likes · 2 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →
Republicans are terrified by what Trump is doing to the economy right now. https://t.co/LvfnzTUzFP https://t.co/dYItmbODN3
1.6K views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →
Trump has a Canada problem. https://t.co/l3PJkAADfs https://t.co/4XdwUHYh6w
1.5K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views5 574this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %40.89%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %6.60%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post5 5749246.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)40.89%3.62%11.3×
Engagement rate6.60%1.52%4.34×

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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

1.5K24 Aug
1.6K26 Aug
1.9K2 Sep
13.2K3 Sep
1.4M8 Sep
52.5K
9.2K
3979 Sep
293
60.9K
232
51.4K

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.21%24 Aug
1.13%26 Aug
1.32%2 Sep
1.69%3 Sep
2.31%8 Sep
15.25%
15.06%
6.30%9 Sep
7.85%
13.47%
6.90%
13.50%

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

What the audience does

Likes72.6%42 393 in total
Reposts7.3%4 289 in total
Replies17.9%10 469 in total
Quotes0.7%423 in total
Bookmarks1.4%811 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.

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