Laura J. Nelson ✓

@laura_nelson · Los Angeles · joined 01 Oct 2008

Wall Street Journal reporter in Los Angeles. Proud Kansan, @latimes and USC alum. laura.nelson@wsj.com, Signal: ljn.11

31 516Followers

1 000Following

60 030Posts total

855.8KViews on collected posts

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Laura J. Nelson ✓@laura_nelson21 Sep

@laura_nelson @NYMag Completely setting aside the glp-1 question those are some impressively fraught mother/daughter relationships 11.7K views · 191 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Laura J. Nelson ✓@laura_nelson21 Sep

@laura_nelson @NYMag i'm very grateful not to be a conformist and that whenever i have complained to my mom about my weight, she simply says "buy bigger pants" 24.4K views · 327 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Laura J. Nelson ✓@laura_nelson21 Sep

@laura_nelson @NYMag What could possibly go wrong with paying your roommate $100/month for a compounded drug (not FDA approved) that hasn't been prescribed to you? 13.4K views · 200 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Laura J. Nelson ✓@laura_nelson21 Sep

So much to unpack in this (excellent) @nymag story about sorority rush and GLP-1s. You could probably write an entire graduate thesis about mothers and daughters and body image based on these two paragraphs. https://t.co/Kn0O9UbUIa https://t.co/nSy04OWmIy

780.1K views · 6.6K likes · 393 reposts · 108 replies Open on X →

Laura J. Nelson ✓@laura_nelson20 Sep

The rest of our story, looking at how resistance to Flock is one of those rare things — like data centers — sparking activism on the left and the right: https://t.co/hILFwnbG6T 1.5K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Laura J. Nelson ✓@laura_nelson18 Sep

New from @jtoonkel: Paramount is in advanced settlement talks with California officials aimed at resolving the antitrust lawsuit that stands in the way of the company’s $81 billion deal to acquire rival Warner Bros. Discovery, according to people familiar with the matter. https:/

2.5K views · 14 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Laura J. Nelson ✓@laura_nelson17 Sep

They're less than 100 miles apart. Politically, they couldn't be more different. But within days of each other, conservative Oconee County, South Carolina and the liberal city of Asheville, North Carolina both voted to stop using Flock cameras. My latest with @Kris_Maher is a h

3.1K views · 8 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Laura J. Nelson ✓@laura_nelson3 Aug

A decade ago, Dr. Priscilla Chan co-founded a private, tuition-free school in Silicon Valley, aimed at helping kids overcome the effects of poverty and childhood trauma. It closed in June. In my latest, I tried to answer the question: What happened to The Primary School? http

19.3K views · 50 likes · 8 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

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

Median views12 528this account927median for 10K–100K

Reach, %39.75%this account3.63%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.92%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	12 528	927	13.5×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	39.75%	3.63%	10.9×
Engagement rate	0.92%	1.52%	0.61×

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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

19.3K3 Aug

3.1K17 Sep

2.5K18 Sep

1.5K20 Sep

780.1K21 Sep

13.4K

24.4K

11.7K

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

0.35%3 Aug

0.55%17 Sep

0.92%18 Sep

0.75%20 Sep

0.93%21 Sep

1.51%

1.36%

1.68%

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

What the audience does

Likes69.5%7 412 in total

Reposts3.9%416 in total

Replies1.2%128 in total

Quotes1.2%125 in total

Bookmarks24.2%2 579 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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