Laura McGann

@lkmcgann · ÜT: 42.37579,-71.089651 · joined 30 May 2008

Editor at Semafor, DC Team. Ex Post Opinions, Vox, Politico and Grid, DC local, sheepadoodle aficionado, Lmcgann@semafor dot com

12 641Followers

2 304Following

9 566Posts total

27.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Laura McGann@lkmcgann27 Aug

Stock up on your (fill in favorite Canadian product) now. 363 views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laura McGann@lkmcgann27 Aug

News: The Trump administration is analyzing which prohibitions of Canadian imports would prove least disruptive to the US supply chain should Canada retaliate further, a US official tells me: https://t.co/jJiFK6k6le https://t.co/zbR5ojx6qL 16.6K views · 54 likes · 35 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

Laura McGann@lkmcgann13 Jul

Seagulls squawk in the background 1.2K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laura McGann@lkmcgann29 Jun

No Surprises bill came with, derp, quite a few surprises. 905 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laura McGann@lkmcgann22 May

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop with GlP-1s. Instead: "Also, they stall cancer." https://t.co/8STtl6113b 364 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laura McGann@lkmcgann2 Apr

👀 834 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laura McGann@lkmcgann2 Apr

One potential point of connection between Rep. Swalwell and AG Bondi — Swalwell had been a Judiciary Committee member during the first Trump impeachment in 2019 over Ukraine aid Among the Trump defense attorneys: Pam Bondi 7K views · 19 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 056this account1 015median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.35%this account3.95%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.25%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 056	1 015	1.04×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.35%	3.95%	2.11×
Engagement rate	0.25%	1.54%	0.16×

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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

7K2 Apr

834

36422 May

90529 Jun

1.2K13 Jul

16.6K27 Aug

363

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.34%2 Apr

0.12%

0.55%22 May

0.22%29 Jun

0.08%13 Jul

0.67%27 Aug

0.28%

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

What the audience does

Likes55.6%79 in total

Reposts26.8%38 in total

Replies13.4%19 in total

Quotes4.2%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.