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Helen Lewis

@helenlewis · joined 18 Jun 2007

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

147 515Followers
4 639Following
1 871Posts total
458.8KViews on collected posts

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 Open on X →
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 Open on X →
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 Open on X →
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 Open on X →
@helenlewis Yea post truth moments where “journalists” pile on a Black academic following a eugenicist’s lead. You all are pathological at this point. 2.4K views · 79 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
@helenlewis Those who question a media pile on are not ‘truthers’. And the number of fact free statements 250 partisan articles are far right “post truth” going mainstream 1.9K views · 62 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@helenlewis Why must you keep kicking? The pulling apart of people by journalists even after they have fallen prey to the rabid media couldn’t be clearer. 14.9K views · 75 likes · 4 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →
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 186.5K views · 1.9K likes · 290 reposts · 105 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views34 790this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %23.58%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.22%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post34 7905 9835.81×
Reach (views ÷ followers)23.58%1.49%15.8×
Engagement rate1.22%0.93%1.31×

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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

186.5K27 Aug
14.9K
1.9K
2.4K
33.1K28 Aug
53.4K29 Aug
130.1K31 Aug
36.5K2 Sep

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

1.28%27 Aug
0.66%
3.77%
3.65%
1.57%28 Aug
0.47%29 Aug
0.84%31 Aug
1.15%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes70.2%3 834 in total
Reposts8.8%482 in total
Replies9.2%502 in total
Quotes1.9%106 in total
Bookmarks9.8%536 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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