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 338Following

46 584Posts total

25.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views2 898this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.41%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.39%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 898	2 896	1.00×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.41%	9.51%	0.88×
Engagement rate	0.39%	1.56%	0.25×

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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

1.2K25 Aug

7.4K

2.9K29 Aug

12.4K2 Sep

1.2K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.16%25 Aug

0.39%

0.72%29 Aug

0.36%2 Sep

0.74%

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

What the audience does

Likes58.6%65 in total

Reposts3.6%4 in total

Replies31.5%35 in total

Quotes1.8%2 in total

Bookmarks4.5%5 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

Smart, bc the middle-class jet ownership of my youth is almost entirely a thing of the past. https://t.co/IuuWJW6uId 1.2K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 Has @ezraklein talked much about data center backlash or is "Abundance" only something to argue for years after it matters? 12.4K views · 35 likes · 2 reposts · 8 replies 02 Sep 2026 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 29 Aug 2026 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 25 Aug 2026 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 25 Aug 2026