Rafe Meager (they/them)

@economeager · Sydney, Australia · joined 13 May 2010

i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table https://t.co/yElLY9gDiv https://t.co/UBlzYddnTE

43 803Followers

4 057Following

61 885Posts total

178.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 266this account1 637median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.46%this account5.01%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.57%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 266	1 637	2.00×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.46%	5.01%	1.49×
Engagement rate	0.57%	1.81%	0.31×

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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

33.3K12 Dec

266

26013 Dec

2.2K16 Jan

2.6K26 May

1.6K29 May

5.1K14 Aug

122.1K19 Aug

2.1K

2.8K

3.5K2 Sep

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.18%12 Dec

0.75%

0.38%13 Dec

0.36%16 Jan

0.19%26 May

0.24%29 May

1.16%14 Aug

0.42%19 Aug

0.34%

0.24%

0.72%

1.58%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.

What the audience does

Likes59.5%625 in total

Reposts7.3%77 in total

Replies2.1%22 in total

Quotes1.9%20 in total

Bookmarks29.1%306 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

someone is trying to hack this account. to them i say: it's not worth it, dude, it's shadowbanned anyhow. 3.5K views · 54 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 @economeager > get outed as Epstein associate > resign from Harvard > lay low for a few months > write a comment for the Epstein network newspaper going after the MIT guy saying AI will destroy democracy checks out. 2.8K views · 15 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2026 @economeager Acemoglu is mostly fine but my marxist critique is that automation doesn't necessarily increase inequality because it decreases profits. 2.1K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2026 @economeager Acemoglu treats redistribution and repression as substitutes. States do both simultaneously. China being the obvious case - automation push alongside welfare expansion AND surveillance state 3K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 I don't know why The Economist has suddenly turned on Daron but I will say I recently enjoyed looking over this working paper from him which does not seem entirely unrelated. https://t.co/MdLTWoMvib https://t.co/ZS9Kd1uqWw 122.1K views · 426 likes · 65 reposts · 7 replies 19 Aug 2026 “Would Isaac Newton have been able to navigate intellectual politics and keep all his public beliefs within the overton window?” famously he indeed did exactly this to avoid losing his job. he was literally a secret heretic. op ed writers learn how to use google challenge 5.1K views · 50 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 14 Aug 2026 also john is viggo's dead wife 1.6K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 May 2026 I watched John Wick and I discovered that labour is capital's dead wife. https://t.co/3VLLcs5wQB https://t.co/xQ6PMQSmiJ 2.6K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 May 2026 @economeager You mean the feeling of longing for and missing something in this place (about here)? 2.2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 16 Jan 2025 @economeager Now there’s a blast from the past. 260 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 13 Dec 2024 @economeager I saw someone carved that in a tree once 266 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 12 Dec 2024 i know this is a bit odd but i find there is something romantic about seeing "[Figure 1 about here]" 33.3K views · 50 likes · 1 reposts · 8 replies 12 Dec 2024