Evan Hill ✓

@evanhill · joined 23 Feb 2009

Open source and visual forensic investigations @washingtonpost.

127 502Followers

1 245Following

8 522Posts total

320.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views11 385this account5 994median for 100K–1M

Reach, %8.93%this account2.51%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.64%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	11 385	5 994	1.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.93%	2.51%	3.56×
Engagement rate	0.64%	1.40%	0.46×

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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

18.4K22 Aug

4.2K24 Aug

211.2K25 Aug

11.4K

69.8K26 Aug

3.8K

2.1K1 Sep

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

1.55%22 Aug

0.14%24 Aug

0.56%25 Aug

0.64%

1.57%26 Aug

0.26%

0.80%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes83.2%2 260 in total

Reposts5.8%157 in total

Replies6.5%177 in total

Quotes3.1%84 in total

Bookmarks1.4%37 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

Nearly half of Americans want labor unions in the U.S. to have more influence than they do today, a record high in the past quarter century, according to a new Gallup poll https://t.co/a0IroxWnPa 2.1K views · 11 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 someone wrote a book about the fatal perils of unlimited entertainment... 3.8K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 I think everyone actually has to take seriously the idea that social media and “unlimited entertainment” have in fact not created outcomes that people are happy about, even though we find them very compulsively appealing in the moment. https://t.co/qOTHsN7iUZ https://t.co/Ayrb5k 69.8K views · 967 likes · 67 reposts · 41 replies 26 Aug 2026 I tend to agree with @bigblackjacobin's point that arguments against LLMs on the basis of the public good are stronger than those made on the basis of aesthetics but it also seems like a pretty obvious false equivalence to say that someone using a human speechwriter is the same 11.4K views · 62 likes · 2 reposts · 9 replies 25 Aug 2026 Prior to AI, there were plenty of high-profile people publishing op-eds under their own name that were entirely written by some underling, and I don't think there was much controversy over it. IMO, long-term the only sustainable question is: is the writing good or bad? 211.2K views · 939 likes · 66 reposts · 125 replies 25 Aug 2026 https://t.co/oYF5zJvCcZ 4.2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 Aug 2026 I think this line of thinking is mostly rooted in a 100 year old conception of the working class and a 60 year old conception of the middle class. 18.4K views · 267 likes · 15 reposts · 2 replies 22 Aug 2026