jon ronson

@jonronson · joined 10 Dec 2008

New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them

207 026Followers

3 043Following

70 269Posts total

170.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views26 460this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %12.78%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.31%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	26 460	21 891	1.21×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.78%	6.81%	1.88×
Engagement rate	0.31%	1.14%	0.27×

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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

13.6K13 Aug

23.5K18 Aug

20.2K

38.9K21 Aug

29.5K24 Aug

45.1K30 Aug

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

0.42%13 Aug

0.02%18 Aug

0.37%

0.20%21 Aug

0.61%24 Aug

0.25%30 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes58.8%384 in total

Reposts6.6%43 in total

Replies9.6%63 in total

Quotes2.6%17 in total

Bookmarks22.4%146 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

The NYT magazine has published an extract from The Castle! The book is out Sept 1 in the US / now in the UK. All details - inc speaking dates - link in bio! I love this extract. He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire. https://t.co/BnBDorSC5K 45.1K views · 88 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 30 Aug 2026 After I finished writing The Castle I went to the cage fight at the White House for @GQMagazine I was right there on the south lawn - blood spatter close. Here’s my story. There’s no paywall, for now at least https://t.co/zP502vF4OD 29.5K views · 156 likes · 17 reposts · 3 replies 24 Aug 2026 Thank you Guardian. This is the first time some of The Castle is out in the world. https://t.co/dNcUFKIYWb 38.9K views · 67 likes · 10 reposts · 0 replies 21 Aug 2026 Thank you!! 20.2K views · 36 likes · 1 reposts · 38 replies 18 Aug 2026 @jonronson Managed get a copy a couple days early, with it also being a signed edition. Jon Ronson, am flying through this it’s an incredible read so far. Thank you. https://t.co/CRI0pVMoZ2 23.5K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 18 Aug 2026 Indie bookshop fans in the UK. @VikingBooksUK are putting out a limited edition of The Castle just for the indies… signed and with a bonus chapter, a conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe. Link in bio or just go to your local indie bookshop on Aug 20 and it should be there! http 13.6K views · 35 likes · 2 reposts · 19 replies 13 Aug 2026