Lexi Pandell

@lpandell

Author of HOLY MOTHER! (fall 2027) | Non-fiction @WIRED, @nytimes, @TheAtlantic, & more. | Fiction @pinchjournal, @salthilljournal, @NewOhioReview, & more.

2 129Followers

804Following

7 459Posts total

139.5KViews on collected posts

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Lexi Pandell@lpandell3 Sep

@lpandell @WIRED How fucking self absorbed do you have to be to publish an article that’s mainly about how your subject wasn’t paying enough attention to you? Wired used to be respectable, sad to see its current state! 4.1K views · 239 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lexi Pandell@lpandell3 Sep

@lpandell @BenShindel @WIRED lexi this is 2026 and u are a journalist. maybe u haven't gotten the message, but in the modern era ur profession commands near zero respect. u are not truth seekers, u do not speak it to power, u are merely in a desperate scrabble for clicks like eve 2.8K views · 204 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lexi Pandell@lpandell3 Sep

@lpandell @BenShindel @WIRED I’m a REPORTER why isn’t he taking me SERIOUSLY? 2.4K views · 153 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Lexi Pandell@lpandell3 Sep

@lpandell @WIRED This type of innuendo seems irresponsible to publish https://t.co/pcbRHusyaU 2.6K views · 130 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Lexi Pandell@lpandell2 Sep

@lpandell @WIRED And would you make your coverage of a company more negative if their CEO accidentally burped while talking to you? And *mention he burped in the article as some kind of comment on his character*? That strikes me as a pretty big lapse in journalistic integrity. 8.3K views · 543 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Lexi Pandell@lpandell2 Sep

@BenShindel @WIRED Ben, the lunch clearly wasn't the problem. I have interviewed people over meals before and typically wouldn't mind an interviewee eating on a call. As I note, he was busy. But would you turn away from a reporter without explanation to microwave something? Would 72.9K views · 30 likes · 0 reposts · 39 replies Open on X →

Lexi Pandell@lpandell2 Sep

@lpandell @WIRED You know, it was one time standard practice for interviews to be conducted over meals. I think the petty framing around “how dare my interviewee be eating food while we talk” here reflects pretty poorly on your judgment as a journalist. 8.4K views · 510 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Lexi Pandell@lpandell2 Sep

A wave of AI accusations swept the literary world this year. One small startup was behind them. None of it was an accident. I wrote about it for @WIRED: https://t.co/OBp6uSvTMD https://t.co/GWJFp3SoA7 37.9K views · 28 likes · 3 reposts · 26 replies Open on X →

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views6 192this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %290.82%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %6.04%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 192	4 175	1.48×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.9× audience	2.5× audience	1.16×
Engagement rate	6.04%	1.41%	4.29×

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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

37.9K2 Sep

8.4K

72.9K

8.3K

2.6K3 Sep

2.4K

2.8K

4.1K

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

0.21%2 Sep

6.13%

0.15%

6.59%

5.19%3 Sep

6.41%

7.21%

5.96%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes90.4%1 837 in total

Reposts0.4%8 in total

Replies3.6%73 in total

Quotes3.4%70 in total

Bookmarks2.2%45 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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