Chris Hughes

@chrishughes · New York, NY · joined 13 Feb 2009

Author, Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy. Co-Founder & Chair @EconomicSecProj.

40 780Followers

1 347Following

2 043Posts total

12.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views850this account1 756median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.08%this account5.38%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.23%this account1.75%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	850	1 756	0.48×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.08%	5.38%	0.39×
Engagement rate	0.23%	1.75%	0.13×

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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

70220 Jan

99624 Feb

2.9K27 Apr

85024 Jun

6.5K15 Jul

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.57%20 Jan

1.20%24 Feb

0.34%27 Apr

3.33%

0.24%24 Jun

0.60%15 Jul

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.75%.

What the audience does

Likes58.0%47 in total

Reposts19.8%16 in total

Replies6.2%5 in total

Quotes1.2%1 in total

Bookmarks14.8%12 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

@chrishughes @TheProspect At scale, government isn't something you can fight. It's a relationship to manage. How do you think this changes their investor pitch? 21 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 15 Jul 2026 The government forced Anthropic's most capable models offline for 18 days. OpenAI delayed GPT-5.6 when asked. Intel gave Washington a 10% stake. My latest in @theprospect on how the industry that swore it didn't need the state learned to work with it. https://t.co/StNbzyVlhv 6.5K views · 29 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies 15 Jul 2026 Greenspan’s flaw wasn’t trusting markets too much. He used the Fed to cultivate a faster and looser financial sector … then counted on government to catch the fall. My latest in @theprospect https://t.co/Ux0IlVd5D7 850 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 Jun 2026 @chrishughes @Aarondklein @BrookingsInst interesting. what say you @YIMBYLAND @mattyglesias ? i like chris and he’s generally very thoughtful . i’m skeptical we don’t also need massive zoning reform and this article is above my understanding 60 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 27 Apr 2026 More details on a low-cost way to quickly build ourselves out of the housing crisis. And no, it doesn't involve zoning reform. New report I co-authored with @Aarondklein from @BrookingsInst https://t.co/AQjlMx4RCm 2.9K views · 4 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 27 Apr 2026 How much value does the Fed's operating system create for commercial banks? In a new @BrookingsInst paper, Josh Younger and I quantify two channels of transfer from the public to the private sector under ample reserves, peaking as high as $200bn annually https://t.co/R7grkHLEO6 996 views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 24 Feb 2026 Bank regulation and monetary policy are inextricably intertwined. The Supreme Court should let both stay independent from the White House https://t.co/BHLKTTN5Ve https://t.co/x4e0a14wxX 702 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 20 Jan 2026