Casey Michel

@cjcmichel · NYC · joined 29 Aug 2009

Order my book UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY here: https://t.co/jxwMkNziBd | Combating Kleptocracy @HRF | Corruption fellow @CIPolicy | Views my own

33 521Followers

4 416Following

34 872Posts total

42.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Casey Michel@cjcmichel22 Sep

I went on @NPR's 1A alongside the great @anneapplebaum to talk about how corruption has rotted American foreign policy, fueled imperialism from Greenland to Ukraine, and sold American policy—and even American national security—to the highest bidder. https://t.co/Pm5jpgJ5MA 251 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Casey Michel@cjcmichel21 Sep

You can read all about how we got to this Age of Oligarchy—and how everyone from Musk to Jared Kushner to autocracies around the world have taken full advantage—in my new book UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY, which is out on bookshelves now. https://t.co/pIAoss01VW https://t.co/e3N8q

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Casey Michel@cjcmichel21 Sep

We're not in a new Gilded Age. We're in something worse. My latest at @guardian on how US wealth inequality has now blasted past anything we've seen before, and how we've now entered the Age of Oligarchy. https://t.co/owTGn3Uttn 1.6K views · 31 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Casey Michel@cjcmichel20 Sep

DC—I’m coming back for another talk! This panel is brought to you by the fantastic @FACTCoalition, and will focus on how closely democracy and financial transparency are linked. We’re talking taxes, Teddy Roosevelt, and tackling oligarchy. See you there! https://t.co/4sLikskfkH

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Casey Michel@cjcmichel20 Sep

"Russian gangster-oligarch secretly pays for the wedding of the US president's son" is such an insane—and insanely corrupt—revelation that you almost can't process it. Almost. 1K views · 30 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Casey Michel@cjcmichel8 Sep

You don't say. https://t.co/NdXCfAXgwN

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Casey Michel@cjcmichel8 Jun

@cjcmichel @MotherJones Agree that the conflicts are historical in scale. But I’d quibble that he’s the best friend that gulf leaders might want. Because he has helped make the security situation in the region so much worse 490 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Casey Michel@cjcmichel8 Jun

Extremely excited to share the first excerpt of UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY, over at @MotherJones! Jared Kushner boasts the greatest conflicts-of-interest in American history—and has become the best friend autocrats could want. Here's how it happened. https://t.co/ZYCqTQngbK 38.5K views · 111 likes · 59 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views448this account959median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.34%this account3.75%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.18%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	448	959	0.47×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.34%	3.75%	0.36×
Engagement rate	2.18%	1.52%	1.43×

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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

38.5K8 Jun

490

1278 Sep

1K20 Sep

645

1.6K21 Sep

211

25122 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.46%8 Jun

1.02%

0.79%8 Sep

3.83%20 Sep

1.40%

2.46%21 Sep

1.90%

2.79%22 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes55.5%193 in total

Reposts22.4%78 in total

Replies1.7%6 in total

Quotes1.4%5 in total

Bookmarks19.0%66 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.