Joshua Gans

@joshgans · Toronto, Ontario · joined 03 Nov 2008

Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Chief Economist of Creative Destruction Lab https://t.co/a9ZbnBauCF

20 731Followers

760Following

43 701Posts total

31.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views3 843this account1 195median for 10K–100K

Reach, %18.54%this account3.80%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.73%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 843	1 195	3.22×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	18.54%	3.80%	4.88×
Engagement rate	0.73%	2.00%	0.37×

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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

3.5K3 Sep

2.2K

3.9K4 Sep

3.7K

12.7K5 Sep

5.8K

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

1.12%3 Sep

0.72%

0.28%4 Sep

0.64%

1.04%5 Sep

0.75%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes74.7%216 in total

Reposts15.2%44 in total

Replies1.7%5 in total

Quotes0.3%1 in total

Bookmarks8.0%23 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

Yep. Great to see. Thanks MIT Press. 5.8K views · 36 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 open access The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence https://t.co/j8yUO0zvE4 12.7K views · 104 likes · 27 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 In addition to our junior position, we have a position for a tenured position in our group here at Strategy @rotmanschool . Please let anyone who might interested know. https://t.co/ToLS9P4s2D 3.7K views · 16 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 100% of product market fit for @elonmusk 's Tesla cybercab is made up of influencers. 3.9K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 This is good. 2.2K views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 The other thing about Astra is that it outperforms GPT Pro in checking proofs. It is the first non-Pro model to achieve that. Also, it led to papers being reviewed first by it and then by @RefineDotInk with few comments back. 3.5K views · 36 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026