Helen Lewis

@helenlewis · joined 18 Jun 2007

staff writer, @theatlantic | contact me: hlewis@theatlantic.com

147 496Followers

4 639Following

1 871Posts total

2.3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views91 724this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %62.19%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.00%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	91 724	21 891	4.19×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	62.19%	6.81%	9.13×
Engagement rate	1.00%	1.14%	0.87×

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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

186.3K27 Aug

33.1K28 Aug

53.4K29 Aug

130.1K31 Aug

1.8M1 Sep

36.5K2 Sep

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

1.28%27 Aug

1.57%28 Aug

0.47%29 Aug

0.84%31 Aug

0.33%1 Sep

1.15%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes68.9%7 716 in total

Reposts10.4%1 161 in total

Replies11.2%1 256 in total

Quotes4.8%537 in total

Bookmarks4.7%527 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

Anyone who invests in Milo’s new Resistance Lib incarnation deserves to lose their money, which — if history is any guide — they will. 36.5K views · 368 likes · 31 reposts · 19 replies 02 Sep 2026 Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who was deported to the UK last week, says he now regrets his support for Trump: “I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have got involved in supporting Trump in the first place and I’m very http 1.8M views · 4.1K likes · 695 reposts · 778 replies 01 Sep 2026 Anyone discussing this race needs to be very careful about putting the name of a man who would be America's first Muslim senator next to "9/11" on very thin grounds. It reads like a dog whistle. 130.1K views · 676 likes · 80 reposts · 302 replies 31 Aug 2026 I have written (and podcasted) at length about eugenics; It's not ambiguous where I stand on it. This from the chapter on Lewis Terman in The Genius Myth. I also cover Francis Galton, who coined the term, and William Shockley, who tried to mainstream the idea again in the 70s. ht 53.4K views · 213 likes · 16 reposts · 17 replies 29 Aug 2026 BTW, I have had some complaints that I (and other journalists) have not scrutinised Nathan Cofnas, the academic who exposed Arday. As it happens, I wrote a book with several chapters on the hereditarian account of IQ, and its links to support for eugenics. https://t.co/jjev6VVsr 33.1K views · 426 likes · 49 reposts · 35 replies 28 Aug 2026 I think we have entered a weird post-truth moment in Britain, where it apparently doesn't matter if books and speaker bios are literally true: https://t.co/NS1xZ3NORF 186.3K views · 1.9K likes · 290 reposts · 105 replies 27 Aug 2026