David Zweig ✓

@davidzweig · Lower Hudson Valley · joined 25 May 2011

Author of INVISIBLES and AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION. Order: https://t.co/36kL0G6P11 Subscribe: https://t.co/ytTP1HqGbi Clips: NYT, Atlantic, NYmag, TFP, Wired.

123 668Followers

995Following

4 897Posts total

100.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 406this account4 270median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.56%this account1.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.58%this account1.42%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 406	4 270	1.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.56%	1.71%	2.08×
Engagement rate	0.58%	1.42%	0.41×

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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

82.3K16 Aug

4.1K25 Aug

6K27 Aug

3.9K

4.4K1 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.16%16 Aug

0.49%25 Aug

0.58%27 Aug

0.33%

0.70%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes76.0%1 501 in total

Reposts13.3%262 in total

Replies4.9%96 in total

Quotes1.0%19 in total

Bookmarks5.0%98 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

It’s clear that academics in social sciences intellectualize themselves into supporting fads that the average person can see are idiotic. Architecture is similarly vulnerable. At best, a few of these buildings are “interesting.” Most are objectionable. None are uplifting. 4.4K views · 27 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

New initiative at Rutgers to discuss and debate ethics in science and how scientists behave, including gain of function research, climate research and more. Congratulations to @Bryce_Nickels on this important program! https://t.co/UJ0GkGFlJ9 3.9K views · 9 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

🧵ANNOUNCEMENT: This fall, I’m launching a new initiative at the Waksman Institute at @RutgersU: The Purpose of Science Lecture Series: Conversations on Science, Society, and Responsibility https://t.co/y4rCNXT6Uc (1/n) 6K views · 23 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The AI trying to close caption Michael Stipe’s lyrics is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. Humanity prevails. The machine can never fully understand man. The last chorus AI gives up, simply repeating “bring it” for “radio free Europe” https://t.co/rKY1I2jnvl 4.1K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Why didn't schools open? A core answer is that The New Yorker, along with much of MSM, did ~zero investigative reporting during the pandemic that dug into the literature and evidence behind NPIs. The institutional inability, even today, to recognize this failure is troubling. htt 82.3K views · 1.4K likes · 246 reposts · 91 replies 16 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

💥🔥🧨 I am beyond excited to announce that I will be writing AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, a book for @mitpress, about the schools debacle in America during the pandemic. The book, in essence, will be a case study of how and why bad decisions are made THREAD 1/12 0 views · 1.9K likes · 322 reposts · 152 replies 18 Feb 2021 · Open on X →