Andrew G. Biggs ✓

@biggsag

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5 018Followers

1 582Following

22 609Posts total

80.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 995this account2 387median for under 10K

Reach, %39.76%this account160.90%median for under 10K

Engagement, %2.62%this account1.63%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 995	2 387	0.84×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	39.76%	160.90%	0.25×
Engagement rate	2.62%	1.63%	1.61×

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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

76.1K28 Aug

1.6K

548

2.4K

Last 4 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

2.69%

4.01%

2.55%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes55.9%267 in total

Reposts7.7%37 in total

Replies23.0%110 in total

Quotes3.6%17 in total

Bookmarks9.8%47 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

@biggsag @PostOpinions Great…thanks for the research..we’ll just take what we were promised though…no negotiating…at all… 2.4K views · 52 likes · 0 reposts · 10 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@biggsag @PostOpinions You only see inequality because you look at the raw payouts. But if you look at the ratio of payouts to contributions, you see a different story: the top quintile barely gets what it put in. The lowest quintiles are getting multiples of what their pay-ins 548 views · 19 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@biggsag @PostOpinions I miss the days when “free market” think tanks actually espoused free market ideas and not government redistribution schemes. 1.6K views · 39 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

In today's @PostOpinions, I look at who really receives Social Security retirement benefits and the federal tax break for retirement savings. They're heavily tilted toward the rich, with the top fifth receiving more than the bottom 60% combined. The poorest fifth of 76.1K views · 157 likes · 34 reposts · 97 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →