Joan Halifax

@jhalifax · Santa Fe, New Mexico · joined 16 Nov 2008

Buddhist teacher, author, social activist, anthropologist, Abbot: Upaya Zen Center

66 024Followers

565Following

27 303Posts total

6.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 175this account1 540median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.78%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.23%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 175	1 540	0.76×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.78%	4.74%	0.38×
Engagement rate	3.23%	1.87%	1.73×

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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

20011 Dec

6362 Sep

7383 Sep

1.6K

1.2K4 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.50%11 Dec

1.10%2 Sep

2.98%3 Sep

3.38%

6.18%

3.23%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes82.0%209 in total

Reposts9.0%23 in total

Replies0.8%2 in total

Quotes0.4%1 in total

Bookmarks7.8%20 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Extraordinary Rebecca Solnit's talk at Upaya was rich and powerful. You can access for free, though a donation is appreciated. Roshi Joan with Sensei Dainin opened this remarkable session. Please share! https://t.co/ajT6UMzAdn https://t.co/o89UmgRql6 https://t.co/b4Wqdfj1nU 1.2K views · 32 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 A deep bow and heavy heart Gloria Steinem has gone beyond. We joined Jane Fonda and other remarkable women at a climate protest a few years ago in DC and were arrested and hauled off together in a police wagon to be processed. In those many hours in the dark and freezing https:// 1.6K views · 89 likes · 10 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Unfinished Vow: Buddhism is sometimes presented in the West as a somewhat private experience, and as though wisdom and compassion were two parallel qualities to be balanced against one another, like weights on a scale. Dōgen suggests something far more intimate. Wisdom naturally 2K views · 59 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Eihei Dōgen: “Flowers in the sky emerge from the earth. The whole nation has no way to buy them.” https://t.co/tFRJrQmZFS 738 views · 21 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 FRANK OSTASESKI, at Upaya and online: Love and Death, with Roshi Joan, Sept 18-20, and Measure of Our Humanity Series, March 20, 11AM-12:30, free. DO NOT MISS. https://t.co/fOLecebQoW https://t.co/IObZjfhjni https://t.co/uthu2juRk3 https://t.co/Bnly3hlaiL 636 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @jhalifax Yes! It certainly sometimes feels this way! 200 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 11 Dec 2023