emily may ✓

@emilykmay · North Carolina, USA · joined 26 Feb 2010

freelance content writer. published in the NYT. swiftie, mom, feminist, married to the kindly firefighting hugh jackman.

61 836Followers

5 105Following

74 806Posts total

2MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

emily may ✓@emilykmay22h

I will be a millennial optimist until the day I die, yall have gotta go outside and talk to other people. 4.3K views · 151 likes · 13 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

emily may ✓@emilykmay22h

mega 100k+ follower accounts regularly post my tweets on Instagram so a couple of weeks ago, I decided that I would try to post my tweets on my instagram. so far, I've lost two followers 🫡 3.4K views · 253 likes · 1 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

emily may ✓@emilykmay9 Sep

in my house, I do a good bit of the meal planning and cooking. but I don't do very much of the grocery shopping or kitchen cleanup, and let me tell you, this makes doing the cooking 100000x easier. 4.5K views · 264 likes · 0 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

emily may ✓@emilykmay9 Sep

my kindergartner has been telling me for two weeks straight about a kid in his class named "Bucket." i have asked him multiple times if he is sure that's his name. he insisted on "Bucket." checked class dojo today. it's definitely "Beckett." 27.7K views · 1.6K likes · 13 reposts · 35 replies Open on X →

emily may ✓@emilykmay25 Apr 2025

@emilykmay @Ami_Marisol Thanks for writing this. I found myself getting angrier and angrier over the last couple weeks about this situation, and I haven’t wanted to speak about it much. My eldest son is also in the same position. He can’t speak, requires a diaper 24/7, sometime 2.2K views · 57 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

emily may ✓@emilykmay25 Apr 2025

Gift link! https://t.co/gc0HD3TKdW 18.9K views · 203 likes · 16 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

emily may ✓@emilykmay25 Apr 2025

Also as someone who writes quips that mostly end up on buzzfeed, I'm gonna throw up 🙏🫶🏻 14K views · 133 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

emily may ✓@emilykmay25 Apr 2025

I wrote a piece about my perspective as a parent raising a child with autism. Honored that the NYT chose to publish it ❤️ https://t.co/Lu0EIPFps1 2M views · 1.8K likes · 143 reposts · 181 replies Open on X →

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4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views4 402this account999median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.12%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %6.17%this account1.92%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 402	999	4.41×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.12%	3.62%	1.97×
Engagement rate	6.17%	1.92%	3.22×

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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

2M25 Apr

14K

18.9K

2.2K

27.7K9 Sep

4.5K

3.4K10 Sep

4.3K

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

0.11%25 Apr

0.98%

1.26%

2.74%

6.12%9 Sep

6.21%

7.81%10 Sep

3.92%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.92%.

What the audience does

Likes82.5%4 512 in total

Reposts3.4%186 in total

Replies5.0%275 in total

Bookmarks9.1%497 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.

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