Jia Lynn Yang

@jialynnyang · joined 27 Oct 2009

Senior ideas writer @nytimes. Former NYT National Editor. Author of "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965.”

15 113Followers

1 511Following

3 904Posts total

56.6KViews on collected posts

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Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang7 Aug

"The older members of the Democratic Party — it feels like I’m just another number to get them a vote." Some great interviews here with Black voters in Georgia by @MaraGay. https://t.co/PAIJm50pUd 683 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang4 Aug

This is a transcendent interview with Antonio Banderas, who is filled with wisdom—about protesting Franco as a young man, about acting and directing, about learning from Sondheim and Almodóvar. https://t.co/qJotEdVrnF 496 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang18 Jul

@jialynnyang https://t.co/J96uvTbjAu 17 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang16 Jul

Regular New York Times readers have long suspected that the paper’s oppressive bias comes not from actual reporters, but from doctrinaire editors, who assign the pieces, then insert those ridiculous 2d or 3d paragraphs that interrupt the flow of the piece, but hammer home the htt

36.8K views · 814 likes · 143 reposts · 40 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang15 Jul

@jialynnyang Don't you love @AnnCoulter? You gotta appreciate how she calls out the foreigners who feel the need to preach to Americans about American history. 29 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang10 Jul

@jialynnyang To be clear, a lot of the “panic” about “American socialism” is and has been created by publications such as yours that are openly ideologically opposed to it 251 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang10 Jul

In all the panic about American socialism, it felt like its own history and lineage was becoming hard to discern. I set out here to better understand how the movement arrived at this place. https://t.co/nf5eKLpIsW 14.5K views · 45 likes · 15 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang4 Jul

@jialynnyang just fyi, for a listener it sounded like you felt the main central story of america’s founding was that of slavery! 66 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang4 Jul

Happy July 4th, everyone. This day still brings me deep hope, as I try to explain on The Daily. https://t.co/GqAFWvwkde 1.7K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang4 Jul

This episode is based on an essay I wrote for the 250th—about the ethics of history and the need for mythology, especially in a country like ours. https://t.co/N8whdaJIZf 510 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jia Lynn Yang@jialynnyang29 Jun

I am so fascinated by Disclosure Day that I saw it for a second time. It has flaws, yes. It’s also an audacious work of art and a full-blown defense of our humanness, on par in its moral passion with Pope Leo’s encyclical on A.I. 1.6K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

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

Median views683this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.52%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.73%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	683	924	0.74×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.52%	3.62%	1.25×
Engagement rate	0.73%	1.52%	0.48×

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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

1.6K29 Jun

5104 Jul

1.7K

14.5K10 Jul

251

2915 Jul

36.8K16 Jul

1718 Jul

4964 Aug

6837 Aug

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.91%29 Jun

1.57%4 Jul

0.91%

4.55%

0.46%10 Jul

0.80%

3.45%15 Jul

2.72%16 Jul

5.88%18 Jul

1.01%4 Aug

0.73%7 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes77.3%892 in total

Reposts14.1%163 in total

Replies5.2%60 in total

Quotes0.7%8 in total

Bookmarks2.7%31 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.

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