Josh Caplan ✓

@joshdcaplan · Subscribe → · joined 18 Jun 2016

Building https://t.co/gt65vLc6Lt, the daily newsletter read by over 25,000 subscribers for all things tech, markets, and freedom.

95 782Followers

332Following

31 490Posts total

35.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 192this account2 747median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.24%this account8.35%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.02%this account1.45%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 192	2 747	0.43×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.24%	8.35%	0.15×
Engagement rate	1.02%	1.45%	0.71×

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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

11.9K13 May

425

490

1.2K3 Sep

6.4K

1.6K

12.9K4 Sep

166

144

126

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

0.25%13 May

0.24%

1.22%

1.01%3 Sep

0.55%

1.02%

0.68%4 Sep

4.22%

6.25%

7.94%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.45%.

What the audience does

Likes73.7%165 in total

Reposts9.4%21 in total

Replies9.4%21 in total

Quotes2.7%6 in total

Bookmarks4.9%11 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

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