Michael Luo

@michaelluo

executive editor @newyorker; author of “Strangers in the Land,” from @doubledaybooks; formerly @nytimes investigations.

52 296Followers

2 951Following

34 239Posts total

9.1KViews on collected posts

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

5K3 Mar

129

228

475

924

169

1.4K

798

169 Mar

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

1.01%3 Mar

2.33%

3.95%

2.74%

0.97%

4.73%

1.33%

1.63%

0.00%

0.00%9 Mar

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes54.8%74 in total

Reposts18.5%25 in total

Replies14.1%19 in total

Quotes3.7%5 in total

Bookmarks8.9%12 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.

Latest posts

@michaelluo @NewYorker Finally was ready to sit down and read the story this morning and wow. Thank you for this reporting and unearthing of stories. 16 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 09 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

@michaelluo Horrible 17 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

This image, too, has stuck with me. These are massacre survivors sent back to China, in 1925, by Union Pacific officials. Lao Chung, a septuagenarian who is third from left, still carried a bullet in his back from the attack. https://t.co/APtKAeMDiU 798 views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

This is an image of Chinese miners returning to Rock Springs after the massacre. I've tried to imagine their fear and the kind of courage it would take to persist as they sought belonging in this country. https://t.co/ouDBN5BGkx 1.4K views · 11 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

The piece includes new reporting about a team of archaeologists that time in Rock Springs this past summer and what they uncovered, as well as the story of a 91-year-old grandson of a massacre survivor. 169 views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

Rock Springs was the moment in which the fury of Chinese immigration spilled over. A dark period in American history known as the "driving out," in which white residents in dozens of towns on the West cost expelled their Chinese neighbors, began in earnest. 924 views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

I'm so moved that in its centenary year, @newyorker is able to publish this definitive account of this little-known tragedy. Yes, the story dates back to the late-19th century, but it feels like an urgent story for today. 475 views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

The piece is drawn from "Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America," due out on 4/29 from @doubledaybooks. Please pre-order from your favorite bookseller! https://t.co/tNxtlHgL07 228 views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

If you'd like a personalized, signed copy, you can order here from @yuandmebooks. https://t.co/PhQvhASt0i 129 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

Thrilled to be able to share, "Tragedy in Rock Springs," in this week's issue of @newyorker. It's an account of one of the most horrific episodes of racial terror in our nation's history and the effort today to unearth the fully story of what happened. https://t.co/y50u9umHR8 5K views · 29 likes · 12 reposts · 5 replies 03 Mar 2025 · Open on X →

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