Kent Babb ✓

@kentbabb · Southbound · joined 17 Apr 2009

Enterprise writer, @ESPN Author | Builder | Adventurer Been smooth since days of Underroos

18 469Followers

1 132Following

20 564Posts total

859.8KViews on collected posts

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Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb30 Jun

ESPN sent me west to try answering a question: Do sports still connect us, or do we just tell ourselves that’s true? Almost 1,100 miles down the spine of the southwest, Promontory to a hogan in Navajo Nation, chasing the answer. It found me in stranger places than I expected. 4.4K views · 15 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb7 Apr

Such a great story that can’t help but bring a smile to your face 2.8K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb7 Apr

Meet Lawrence Bennett, a former chauffeur at Augusta National, unofficial historian and protector of what's most sacred about the place. The real story of Augusta isn't green jackets. It lives in the people time quietly leaves behind. Gift link here: https://t.co/biOLw0zZR5 htt

49.6K views · 76 likes · 23 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb16 Mar

.@YETICoolers My neighborhood outside DC has many stately (and occasionally diseased) 100-year-old oak trees, one of which fell into our backyard on Friday. As we say back home, this thing was a *hoss.* This is #notanad, just an appreciation/amazement post that everything this ht

1.9K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb10 Mar

Brilliant. Now I'm wishing I'd thought of this AND I'm hungry. 2.4K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb10 Mar

https://t.co/CrRZzNpQBm FOLKS… The texts, emails and calls come regularly. At least once a week. Sometimes more. “Jmart, I’m going to [fill-in-the-blank city], where should I eat?” friends, colleagues and sometimes folks I barely know at all will ask. Often, the question in 737.4K views · 314 likes · 61 reposts · 49 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb22 May 2025

@kentbabb @DaleJr What an excellent article. I was actually sad when I finished it, I genuinely wanted to it to keep going forever. I lost my dad almost 2 years ago, he was 59, I was 27. As a father of 2 so much of this resonates with me and the thoughts/feelings I’ve had since m 466 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb22 May 2025

@DirtyMoMedia @ESPNMcGee @MartySmithESPN 2.5K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb22 May 2025

@DirtyMoMedia @ESPNMcGee 3.4K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Kent Babb ✓@kentbabb22 May 2025

In 2002, my dad died at 51. Ever since, I’ve worried about reaching that age, and a while back I reached out to somebody who understood. I learned about @DaleJr and how he coped, & wound up meeting a man I shared blood with but didn’t actually know. https://t.co/2iNAYaPcPS 54.8K views · 218 likes · 39 reposts · 17 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 views4 445this account992median for 10K–100K

Reach, %24.07%this account3.89%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.41%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 445	992	4.48×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	24.07%	3.89%	6.19×
Engagement rate	0.41%	1.54%	0.26×

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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

54.8K22 May

3.4K

2.5K

466

737.4K10 Mar

2.4K

1.9K16 Mar

49.6K7 Apr

2.8K

4.4K30 Jun

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

0.53%22 May

0.15%

0.12%

0.43%

0.06%10 Mar

0.08%

0.31%16 Mar

0.24%7 Apr

0.25%

0.40%30 Jun

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes62.8%644 in total

Reposts12.3%126 in total

Replies7.4%76 in total

Quotes6.7%69 in total

Bookmarks10.8%111 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

7 Sep

Daily snapshots since 07 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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