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Michael Clemens

@m_clem · Washington, DC · joined 06 Jan 2010

Economist at @JohnsHopkins & Fellow @PIIE. Also IZA, @RF_Berlin, & @CGDev. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.

50 909Followers
5 546Following
44 409Posts total
1.7MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

@m_clem This really fucking bums me out today... 1.2K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@m_clem Triste, un gigante! 940 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@m_clem Thanks for posting this, Michael. What a huge loss. So sorry to hear this. 1.5K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Goodbye to one of the greats, my advisor Jeff Williamson (1935–2026) Jeff your unstoppable intellect & excitement were contagious. I owe everything I have to your rare faith in me. From the many like me: Our deepest and forever thanks. Your work & your self will be remembered. ht
86.7K views · 271 likes · 50 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
The owner of this network calls for murdering immigrants. The ongoing control of this once-great network by such a filthy, poisonous supremacist makes my stomach churn and it is the reason that many of us who built this network have stayed away. https://t.co/WKQpF6lpn6
2.2K views · 13 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Countless people will report the new H-1B tax as a “fee”. It is not. That word is used by advocates of the tax trying to avoid legal jeopardy for agencies with no authority to tax. Like the new OPT tax, it is a tax. I clarify in part of my new paper —> 29.7K views · 95 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@m_clem Also illegal. Will be struck down MUCH faster. 143K views · 599 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
The new H-1B tax gets announced tomorrow. The original $100K tax was ruled illegal. The White House made its successor: a $103K tax on *all* private sector H-1Bs. Much more drastic than the original: NO EXCEPTION for people already in the US (like grads of US universities) —> 1.2M views · 8.8K likes · 359 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →
The proposed rule: https://t.co/Xlmzl9KrfA 150.8K views · 185 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
In my keynote at the @DallasFed / @SMU last month, I explored the root causes of the policy crisis at the Southwest Border Video of my slides, audio of me—> https://t.co/5SI1VpjXfB (starts at 9:42, with gracious introduction by Pia Orrenius) 52.7K views · 72 likes · 24 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views29 685this account1 021median for 10K–100K
Reach, %58.31%this account4.01%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.36%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post29 6851 02129.1×
Reach (views ÷ followers)58.31%4.01%14.5×
Engagement rate0.36%1.55%0.23×

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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

52.7K15 May
150.8K24 Aug
1.2M
143K
29.7K
2.2K
86.7K1 Sep
1.5K
940
1.2K

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

0.19%15 May
0.13%24 Aug
0.77%
0.43%
0.36%
0.76%
0.40%1 Sep
0.34%
0.21%
0.08%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes85.2%10 057 in total
Reposts3.9%455 in total
Replies0.1%16 in total
Quotes1.0%122 in total
Bookmarks9.7%1 150 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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