Mike Pesca ✓

@pescami · nyc · joined 18 Jan 2008

Editorial Director for News and Politics Podcasts at CBS. Former host of The Gist, a 3000 episode daily news podcasts. Retweets is an anagram of wet trees.

34 471Followers

5 339Following

46 584Posts total

2MViews on collected posts

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Mike Pesca ✓@pescami2 Sep

@ezraklein So Ezra did an interview with the @jasminewsun, as did Derek Thompson. Ezra doesn't seem to have written on it or opined much on "Data Centers as Abundance". I don't want him to pop off while uninformed, but there's been enough time to gather info. If Data Centers AR 1.8K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami2 Sep

Smart, bc the middle-class jet ownership of my youth is almost entirely a thing of the past. https://t.co/IuuWJW6uId 1.3K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami2 Sep

@pescami @ezraklein https://t.co/8FEXBOu10N https://t.co/zbCQf2laCz 9K views · 72 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami2 Sep

Has @ezraklein talked much about data center backlash or is "Abundance" only something to argue for years after it matters? 12.8K views · 35 likes · 2 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami29 Aug

SF passed a law disallowing arrest of prositutes (sex workers) for solicitation. Didn't want to discriminate. So police can send them letters advising them that buying sex is illegal (they've sent 10 since August) ) police can redirecting traffic. Anyway, its not working, htt 2.9K views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami25 Aug

@pescami I'd have guessed Carlin. 479 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami25 Aug

@pescami Sid Caesar or Mel Brooks. 1.2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami25 Aug

@pescami Chevy Chase. I don’t have to guess, you didn’t black out completely lol 531 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami25 Aug

Try to guess which comedian this, the most over-written introduction I've ever heard, is about. https://t.co/pJSDmDxQZD 7.4K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami25 Aug

On the surface this @MajorCBS interview with Ted Cruz was everything you'd want out of a @CBSMornings Q and A. https://t.co/nkQqkmFsRC But what was going on underneath tells the real story https://t.co/wcW9pe8ZZD 1.2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami16 Aug

@pescami https://t.co/KNyyvNyCMR 8.7K views · 68 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami15 Aug

Jordan created it. 68.9K views · 76 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami14 Aug

The $20 burrito of its era. https://t.co/GCGrDzkB7F 104.8K views · 260 likes · 7 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami14 Aug

Ordinary Abundance. This is the greatest thing I've read in weeks. No kidding. This should win a Pulitzer in a category not yet invented. https://t.co/iqnoACNt6z 1.6M views · 6.2K likes · 956 reposts · 63 replies Open on X →

Mike Pesca ✓@pescami29 Jul

In 1843, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend after seeing her first daguerreotype: “The very shadow of the person lying there fixed for ever! … I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced.” Our lives and homes 180.8K views · 758 likes · 176 reposts · 28 replies Open on X →

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

Median views5 180this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %15.03%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.44%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 180	924	5.61×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.03%	3.62%	4.15×
Engagement rate	0.44%	1.52%	0.29×

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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

1.6M14 Aug

104.8K

68.9K15 Aug

8.7K16 Aug

1.2K25 Aug

7.4K

531

1.2K

479

2.9K29 Aug

12.8K2 Sep

1.3K

1.8K

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.45%14 Aug

0.26%

0.11%15 Aug

0.89%16 Aug

0.16%25 Aug

0.39%

1.32%

0.33%

0.42%

0.72%29 Aug

0.35%2 Sep

0.86%

0.70%

0.62%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes44.9%7 471 in total

Reposts6.9%1 146 in total

Replies0.8%141 in total

Quotes1.7%279 in total

Bookmarks45.7%7 618 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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