Emma Goldberg

@emmabgo · Brooklyn, NY · joined 15 Jun 2012

writer @nytimes email me/send tips: emma.goldberg@nytimes.com

15 681Followers

4 003Following

2 947Posts total

251.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Emma Goldberg@emmabgo3 Sep

I have been following a group of doctors, psychiatrists and others creating New York's first practice dedicated to medical aid in dying. They let me shadow them as they wrestled with questions about law, medicine, and what makes a good death. Gift link: https://t.co/wcNIguAqTn 57.6K views · 124 likes · 27 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Emma Goldberg@emmabgo3 Sep

franzen fall coming https://t.co/rIPpzVYTNn

5.3K views · 20 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Emma Goldberg@emmabgo2 Sep

"If the past few years of American literary publishing have had a zeitgeist, it has been more like a series of geists from zeits past" extremely good @nplusonemag https://t.co/xHNFIw4lAU 1.9K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Emma Goldberg@emmabgo29 Aug

I keep rereading @manaafsari on Last Boys at the Beginning of History and it gets better every time. Everyone should read! https://t.co/vHaJxoh34q 1.2K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Emma Goldberg@emmabgo2 Aug

@emmabgo Would love to read your article but I’ve run out of free articles (apparently the number of ‘free articles’ has dwindled to ‘none’). 779 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Emma Goldberg@emmabgo2 Aug

@emmabgo I participated in it and the discussions and debates were great. It was quite structured, and people shared deep experience from different chapters. The electoral panels were impressive, and related how a strong class struggle message works everywhere except rich neighbo 668 views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Emma Goldberg@emmabgo21 Jan 2024

One year ago I began talking to an atheist chaplain, Devin Moss, who was giving spiritual care to an atheist man on death row in Oklahoma, named Phillip Hancock. I followed along as they wrestled with the question: How do you face death without God? https://t.co/kpiD9rqe4c 184.3K views · 179 likes · 44 reposts · 38 replies Open on X →

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 views1 563this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %9.97%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.81%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 563	924	1.69×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	9.97%	3.62%	2.75×
Engagement rate	0.81%	1.52%	0.54×

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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

184.3K21 Jan

6682 Aug

779

1.2K29 Aug

1.9K2 Sep

5.3K3 Sep

57.6K

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

0.14%21 Jan

1.95%2 Aug

1.28%

0.89%29 Aug

0.74%2 Sep

0.43%3 Sep

0.27%

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

What the audience does

Likes58.0%366 in total

Reposts11.9%75 in total

Replies7.8%49 in total

Bookmarks22.3%141 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.