Dr James Martin

@jamomartin

Associate Professor at Deakin Criminology. Co-creator of Black Market Economics. Tobacco Advisor for Harm Reduction Australia. Views my own.

1 348Followers

785Following

1 675Posts total

10.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views288this account3 020median for under 10K

Reach, %21.36%this account191.81%median for under 10K

Engagement, %8.42%this account1.52%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	288	3 020	0.10×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	21.36%	191.81%	0.11×
Engagement rate	8.42%	1.52%	5.53×

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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

7.7K25 Aug

655

376

291

252

201

206

309

285

104

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.14%25 Aug

4.89%

6.65%

9.28%

9.13%

10.45%

10.68%

14.89%

7.72%

7.69%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes72.8%235 in total

Reposts15.8%51 in total

Replies5.6%18 in total

Quotes3.1%10 in total

Bookmarks2.8%9 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

@jamomartin Our governments made a massive deal about shutting down a few metro servos the other day. Multiple agencies’ raids took time and resources away for no measurable benefit or dent in the illicit market. Now they’re switching from shopfronts to tiny warehouses that sell 104 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 @edjegasothy Governments are starting to take note. Last week, the NSW govt released its inquiry into illicit tobacco. It accurately noted the causes of the black market, the limits of enforcement, and the centrality of harm minimisation in any effective response. 🧵 https://t.co 285 views · 18 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 @edjegasothy To end the tobacco wars, we need to divert a critical mass of Australia's millions of nicotine consumers back to the legal market. We can do this by cutting tax, legalising vapes and nicotine pouches. This give enforcement a fighting chance of success. https://t.co 309 views · 32 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies 25 Aug 2026 @edjegasothy We cannot arrest our way out of this problem. This is the view of our own law enforcement agencies, and is consistent with criminological research that shows that black markets of this size and profitability and extraordinarily resilient to enforcement. https://t.co 206 views · 19 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 @edjegasothy The black market not only fuels violence and costs us billions in lost tax and extra expenditure, it is also fuelling corruption within our law enforcement and regulatory agencies. This further undermines public safety and erodes faith in our institutions. https://t. 201 views · 19 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 @edjegasothy With the ABS tracking the growth of the black market - and now estimating up to 80% of all nicotine products being sold by the black market - we can confirm that these warnings turned out to be accurate. https://t.co/h77nethsK2 https://t.co/itPRGnpZIL 252 views · 20 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 @edjegasothy This outcome was both predictable and predicted. Here's a piece from back in 2018, explaining why ever increasing tobacco taxes were likely to backfire. This and other warnings were dismissed by senior tobacco control figures as 'industry talking points'. https://t. 291 views · 22 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 @edjegasothy In short, the world's highest tobacco taxes and the ban on vapes have created one of the largest, and fastest growing black markets in our country's history. With annual expenditure on illicit nicotine up to $8.5 billion, there is plenty to fight over. https://t.co/ 376 views · 21 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 The tobacco wars are an unintended byproduct of tobacco control policies that have pushed millions of nicotine consumers out of the legal market and into the hands of criminal organisations. @edjegasothy discuss how and why in this open access piece. https://t.co/WMb5UVRQaB 655 views · 26 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 🔥300th tobacco firebombing this morning 🔥 A short thread on this grim milestone in Australia's ever raging tobacco wars... 🧵 https://t.co/e1g5khmcAA 7.7K views · 51 likes · 21 reposts · 8 replies 25 Aug 2026

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