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Typos of the New York Times

@nyttypos · joined 17 Sep 2019

I am an appellate lawyer and persnickety dude. As a hobby, I correct typos in the Times, which no longer employs copy editors and consequently has tons of typos

41 907Followers
55Following
178 061Posts total
263.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 279this account2 896median for 10K–100K
Reach, %5.44%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.26%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post2 2792 8960.79×
Reach (views ÷ followers)5.44%9.51%0.57×
Engagement rate0.26%1.56%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

120K17 Apr
130K18 Apr
5.6K31 Aug
4.8K1 Sep
2.3K2 Sep
392
560

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

0.11%17 Apr
0.58%18 Apr
0.21%31 Aug
0.19%1 Sep
0.39%2 Sep
0.26%
1.07%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes89.2%852 in total
Reposts3.7%35 in total
Replies2.1%20 in total
Quotes0.8%8 in total
Bookmarks4.2%40 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

It will never not be funny that The Times’s sports content farm subsidiary’s two most famous reporters, and maybe the two highest-paid reporters at The New York Times Company, were in succession this abject functional illiterate and Dianna Russini 560 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Thanks, though by 1990 Roberts was no longer a young lawyer, but rather the no. 2 in the Office of the Solicitor General. https://t.co/Z91lreJp79 392 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 23 typos and style guide violations yesterday. Typo 1 of the day, a bad @amarimow factual error: Chief Justice Roberts didn’t argue a case in 1990 as a young lawyer in the Reagan administration. The president was Bush and Roberts was the principal deputy solicitor general. http 2.3K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 31 typos and style guide violations yesterday. Typo 1 of the day: a fully parenthetical sentence’s period goes inside the parentheses, not outside. @dhpierson https://t.co/4Ex0kc4oJq 4.8K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 41 typos and style guide violations yesterday. Typo 1 of the day: made it clear to she believed is a bad @GlennThrush and @MichaelCBender typo for made it clear to Mr. Trump she believed, made it clear she believed, or made it clear that she believed. https://t.co/nkArL0EPYi 5.6K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 https://t.co/u7h8UasP2D 130K views · 702 likes · 31 reposts · 13 replies 18 Apr 2025 I heard I was a clue on Celebrity Jeopardy last night. Unfortunately the prompt was not “They call this lawyer the living Christ of amateur copyediting” 120K views · 121 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 17 Apr 2025

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