Ibram X. Kendi ✓

@ibramxk · Washington, DC · joined 25 Jan 2012

National Book Award-winning Historian @HowardU • 11x NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow. 🐍🦁🦬

340 616Followers

1 415Following

18 940Posts total

3.1MViews on collected posts

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Ibram X. Kendi ✓@ibramxk5 Sep

More than 250 years ago, Joseph Michel Antoine Servan, a French philosopher, called on the French monarchy to develop a more ironclad system of political control. This quote inspired the title of my new book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age. https://t.co/lHJe

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Ibram X. Kendi ✓@ibramxk24 Aug

Florida officers found two middle school students had guns, bombs, Nazi symbols, and a screed on demographic replacement that incited many mass shooters, including in El Paso and Buffalo. These mass shooters have imagined a political plot to mass murder White people, deputized 41.5K views · 864 likes · 427 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ibram X. Kendi ✓@ibramxk15 Aug

The death of Jason Arday hit so close to home that I had no words yesterday. But I woke up with words. To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch

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Ibram X. Kendi ✓@ibramxk9 Aug

Happy Book Lovers Day to all my fellow book lovers! Let me express my deep thanks to everyone who has read and recommended my latest book, Chain of Ideas. With all that’s distracting us, with all that’s taking us away from books, I don’t take for granted that you chose my book, h

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Ibram X. Kendi ✓@ibramxk18 Dec 2025

📚Book Announcement!📚 The most dangerous racist idea—great replacement theory—has become the most dominant political theory of our time. Great replacement theory and its metastasizing variants claim that White people—along with Christians, citizens, men, heterosexuals, and https:

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Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views28 656this account4 799median for 100K–1M

Reach, %8.41%this account1.76%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.00%this account1.30%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	28 656	4 799	5.97×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.41%	1.76%	4.78×
Engagement rate	1.00%	1.30%	0.77×

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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

51K18 Dec

15.8K9 Aug

3M15 Aug

41.5K24 Aug

4.9K5 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.38%18 Dec

1.72%9 Aug

0.20%15 Aug

3.22%24 Aug

0.28%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.30%.

What the audience does

Likes54.4%4 780 in total

Reposts15.7%1 376 in total

Replies1.6%137 in total

Quotes17.3%1 520 in total

Bookmarks11.1%976 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.