Ben Oreskes

@boreskes

NY Statehouse Correspondent @nytimes. @latimes alum.

8 514Followers

999Following

27 978Posts total

57.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ben Oreskes@boreskes13 Sep

@boreskes A fully parenthetical sentence’s period goes inside the parentheses, not outside. Gross. https://t.co/zDNSsyANoD

532 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Oreskes@boreskes12 Sep

“We’re not grown-ups playing army. We’re historians, some of us professionally, some of us amateurs," One re-enactor told me. “The research that goes into what we do is mind-boggling." https://t.co/YIcCl6WerL 534 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Oreskes@boreskes12 Sep

In August, I participated in a reenactment of the Battle of Brooklyn, and let me tell you: it was electric. Here is my dispatch from the wild and dedicated world of Revolutionary War re-enactors. Enjoy! https://t.co/YIcCl6WerL 56.8K views · 60 likes · 10 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views534this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %6.27%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.38%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	534	4 175	0.13×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.27%	2.5× audience	0.03×
Engagement rate	0.38%	1.41%	0.27×

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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

56.8K12 Sep

534

53213 Sep

Last 3 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.14%12 Sep

0.37%

1.32%13 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes63.8%67 in total

Reposts10.5%11 in total

Replies6.7%7 in total

Quotes2.9%3 in total

Bookmarks16.2%17 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.