Mary Childs

@mdc · joined 16 Jun 2010

host, @MaryinAmerica ex cohost @planetmoney @npr author of THE BOND KING @flatironbooks

22 682Followers

3 723Following

15 372Posts total

52.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 546this account2 043median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.81%this account6.16%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.57%this account1.59%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 546	2 043	0.76×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.81%	6.16%	1.11×
Engagement rate	0.57%	1.59%	0.36×

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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

42.4K22 May

1.2K

63823 May

4.2K13 Aug

95620 Aug

1.1K27 Aug

2K3 Sep

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

0.33%22 May

0.42%

0.78%23 May

0.62%13 Aug

0.52%20 Aug

0.37%27 Aug

0.85%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.59%.

What the audience does

Likes67.6%152 in total

Reposts9.3%21 in total

Replies10.2%23 in total

Quotes2.7%6 in total

Bookmarks10.2%23 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

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

today on @maryinamerica: sincere questions about gold, with real answers, from a real one @jacobgoldstein 2K views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 After living in financial markets and economics for years, I got a little confused. what should NOT be market-ized, and why? where should markets stop? so I called Debra Satz, Stanford philosopher and author of the book Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale. she provided an 1.1K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 on this week's @maryinamerica, @rohlamba tells us abt what the world CAN look like w AI. what it will take from labor markets, & what we should maybe do abt that. i think he gave me some of his optimism, or at least more specific/constructive ways to think about it all: 956 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 20 Aug 2026 for this week's @maryinamerica show, we sat down with the great @ameliajpollard @FT to hear the whole Situational Awareness yarn start to finish. And what if anything we can learn from it.....like have we maybe figured out how to bubble better? https://t.co/zsIgCK4IF5 4.2K views · 17 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 13 Aug 2026 @mdc i know them! 638 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 23 May 2026 @mdc 🤩‼️ 1.2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 22 May 2026 Mary in America is coming soon. to find out more about my new podcast, i went right to the source: https://t.co/4OMi5FPbVx 42.4K views · 106 likes · 12 reposts · 18 replies 22 May 2026