First Things ✓

@firstthingsmag · New York City · joined 19 Mar 2009

America’s most influential journal of religion & public life.

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9.8KViews on collected posts

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First Things ✓@firstthingsmag4 Sep

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First Things ✓@firstthingsmag4 Sep

The editors discuss Trump’s renaming craze and its implications for international politics, the decay of academia in light of the Jason Arday scandal, and the upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11. Listen to the conversation at https://t.co/IUWidLMDvy For your long-term ht

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First Things ✓@firstthingsmag4 Sep

What happens when political success becomes detached from virtue? Casey Chalk considers Machiavelli’s enduring influence and whether defeating his legacy requires more than simply adopting his methods. Read the piece at https://t.co/UpP81VIynP https://t.co/lnXHdZFnK9

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First Things ✓@firstthingsmag4 Sep

Jonathon Van Maren considers what happens when technology challenges the assumptions behind the libertarian case for pornography. Read the piece at https://t.co/0Uy615VQa6 https://t.co/w3iOiEZLv1

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First Things ✓@firstthingsmag3 Sep

The Church was rightly held accountable for sexual abuse, but what happens when government institutions face the same scrutiny? Read the piece by Francis X. Maier at https://t.co/D7SLfAWDJF https://t.co/WU9lmQFYyN

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First Things ✓@firstthingsmag2 Sep

What can a great teacher leave behind decades after the classroom is gone? George Weigel remembers the nun who shaped his childhood and reflects on the Front Royal Education Summit and its Front Royal Statement, a call to renew Catholic education through faith, intellectual https

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Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 822this account866median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.27%this account3.28%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.38%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 822	866	2.10×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.27%	3.28%	0.69×
Engagement rate	0.38%	2.00%	0.19×

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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

1.8K2 Sep

2.2K3 Sep

2.2K4 Sep

1.8K

1.7K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.17%2 Sep

0.27%3 Sep

0.62%4 Sep

0.49%

0.54%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes57.1%28 in total

Reposts16.3%8 in total

Replies4.1%2 in total

Quotes6.1%3 in total

Bookmarks16.3%8 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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