Jeff Selingo ✓

@jselingo · Washington, DC · joined 06 Apr 2009

NYT bestselling author. Bylines: @NYTimes @NYMag @TheAtlantic @WSJ. Advisor, @ASU. Founder, @AcademyHigherEd. Editor, Next newsletter. Co-host, @futureupodcast.

27 465Followers

2 543Following

15 246Posts total

20.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Jeff Selingo ✓@jselingo23 Aug

Colleges have lended their name to political polling for marketing purposes but if the quality of the poll is bad, does it still help? https://t.co/un9o5lS49o

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Jeff Selingo ✓@jselingo15 Jul

There's a first time for everything...at @Nordstrom and they won't sell an item at full price because it will go on sale tomorrow for their anniversary sale. 2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jeff Selingo ✓@jselingo11 Jul

C'mon Mark Lerner. Nats up 2-0 against one of the best pitchers in baseball. Yet 26 blown saves for the team halfway through season. Open up that checkbook and be a buyer. 1.1K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Selingo ✓@jselingo7 Jul

@jselingo This is where US soccer has an opportunity. When other sports get so expensive it should induce the parents of great athletes, who are too small for division I level (never mind beyond), to spend their money on a sport like soccer with more opportunity. Or better, for 118 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jeff Selingo ✓@jselingo7 Jul

@jselingo I would love to see some stats on kids who double team - club and varsity at the same time - and what their college acceptances look like compared to kids who just do varsity at their high school. 89 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Selingo ✓@jselingo7 Jul

@jselingo 6-year olds have no business playing in any sport academy. Let them be kids. Playing multiple sports allows them to acquire skills/tactics that they might not necessarily learn playing a single sport. It also develops them better physically as they will use different mu 99 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Selingo ✓@jselingo7 Jul

Bascially every sport. Moved from local/rec/varsity to clubs. There's less development using multiple sports and more focus on the superstars early on, some of whom burn out early. If you're a GenXer, think about how many multi-sport athletes you knew in HS compared to your kids 8.6K views · 41 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Jeff Selingo ✓@jselingo5 Nov 2024

🎁 That's a wrap. Not just on the presidential campaign, but also my next book. I just sent it off to my editor at @simonschuster. 80,000+ words. Some wrap up work to come in the next few weeks and then months of editing pre-sale and then marketing. Tentative on-sale date: 9/9/25

7.1K views · 84 likes · 0 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

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

Median views1 468this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.34%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.44%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 468	924	1.59×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.34%	3.62%	1.48×
Engagement rate	0.44%	1.52%	0.29×

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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

7.1K5 Nov

8.6K7 Jul

118

1.1K11 Jul

2K15 Jul

95123 Aug

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.38%5 Nov

0.56%7 Jul

4.04%

2.25%

1.69%

0.27%11 Jul

0.25%15 Jul

0.63%23 Aug

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

What the audience does

Likes81.6%142 in total

Reposts0.6%1 in total

Replies13.8%24 in total

Quotes0.6%1 in total

Bookmarks3.4%6 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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