Ilya Shapiro ✓

@ishapiro · Falls Church, VA · joined 10 Oct 2008

Dad x 4. Const Studies @ManhattanInst. Author, Supreme Disorder & Lawless. Tweets on law, liberty, pursuit of happiness. “Dad of the Internet” Opinions my own.

80 559Followers

2 673Following

11 168Posts total

199.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views2 687this account3 808median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.34%this account12.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.01%this account1.37%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 687	3 808	0.71×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.34%	12.23%	0.27×
Engagement rate	1.01%	1.37%	0.73×

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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

58.8K2 Sep

2.7K

15.1K

3.3K

2.5K3 Sep

2.3K

110.2K

2.5K

1.8K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.74%2 Sep

1.19%

1.01%

0.82%

0.39%3 Sep

0.51%

2.76%

2.40%

0.83%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.37%.

What the audience does

Likes78.6%3 501 in total

Reposts10.1%452 in total

Replies7.6%337 in total

Quotes1.8%80 in total

Bookmarks1.9%84 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

Not just antisemitic, but socialist, Islamist, and crazy. 1.8K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Long past time, but the second-best time to do so would be right now. 2.5K views · 54 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Honestly at this point it would be very good and healthy for @JDVance to rip Tucker to shreds He’s trying to destroy the coalition that JD wants to ride to victory in ‘28. No more need to be diplomatic. 110.2K views · 2.5K likes · 249 reposts · 263 replies 03 Sep 2026 Florida Poly is doing great work. Best STEM education in the southeast—and not resting on that. 2.3K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Always an honor to represent @FLPolyU at the FL Board of Governors meeting. Today’s focus on accreditation provided an opportunity to highlight our pacesetting work with CPHE - the first institution to complete the process with no recommendations & no concerns. #DifferentByDe 2.5K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Hassan Piker fundraising for the Manhattan Institute again! 3.3K views · 21 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 Oh, lovely. @ManhattanInst superfan @hasanthehun has once again weighed in on one of my tweets—this time to defend Abdul El-Sayed’s attempt to rationalize a Dearborn Heights jihadist’s effort to murder 140 preschoolers. Hasan insists El-Sayed “was right” to describe the attack 15.1K views · 119 likes · 23 reposts · 9 replies 02 Sep 2026 Public confidence in higher education has never been lower. This is well-earned. University grandees who claim that all is well are either disingenuous, stupid, or both. 2.7K views · 26 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 A decade ago, a clear majority of Americans had high confidence in U.S. colleges and universities. Today, fewer than a third do, while the share with very little or no confidence has nearly tripled. Higher ed’s confidence crisis has been years in the making. https://t.co/xHnFa7X 58.8K views · 768 likes · 161 reposts · 59 replies 02 Sep 2026