Itai Sher

@itaisher · Amherst, MA · joined 04 Nov 2018

Economics and Ethics. UMass Amherst.

14 049Followers

4 644Following

76 572Posts total

626.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 717this account1 637median for 10K–100K

Reach, %33.58%this account5.01%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.93%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 717	1 637	2.88×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	33.58%	5.01%	6.70×
Engagement rate	0.93%	1.81%	0.51×

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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

236K30 Oct

243.5K

4.7K2 Sep

4.2K

137.7K4 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

0.01%30 Oct

0.25%

0.98%2 Sep

0.93%

0.33%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.

What the audience does

Likes65.1%974 in total

Reposts5.9%88 in total

Replies5.7%86 in total

Quotes1.8%27 in total

Bookmarks21.5%321 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

This is what this person said about Dyson spheres. You can judge: maybe all this stuff is right or maybe it’s just the way she thinks. https://t.co/KP3b1vCQc2 137.7K views · 366 likes · 31 reposts · 42 replies 04 Sep 2026 This does not reflect well on the author, not only because he claims to have been silent on something so central to his area to preserve his influence but also the sense of superiority to those not in the know and lack of humility in “the obvious truth” of the self-sovereign AI. 4.2K views · 33 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 I don’t endorse the Acemoglu NYT oped as a whole, but parts of it are worthwhile. Unlike Acemoglu, I think we should reject these scapegoating oppressor-oppressed tactics because they are wrong, not just because they don’t work. https://t.co/YXvB6ZpBsu 4.7K views · 44 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER. https://t.co/VhSDWWIacs 243.5K views · 517 likes · 52 reposts · 41 replies 30 Oct 2024 The November 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 11) is now available online at https://t.co/D2Y8R6QhRJ. 236K views · 14 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 30 Oct 2024