Robinson Meyer ✓

@robinsonmeyer · New York, NY · joined 27 Mar 2007

executive editor and “shift key” podcast host, @heatmap_news | contributing opinion writer, @nytimes

53 014Followers

2 636Following

15 335Posts total

677.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 824this account3 808median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.44%this account12.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.58%this account1.37%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 824	3 808	0.48×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.44%	12.23%	0.28×
Engagement rate	0.58%	1.37%	0.42×

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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

273.3K27 Apr

2.2K26 Aug

1.8K

395.3K27 Aug

1.9K

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

0.48%27 Apr

0.32%26 Aug

0.51%

0.22%

1.08%

2.40%27 Aug

0.64%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.37%.

What the audience does

Likes87.2%9 821 in total

Reposts5.8%658 in total

Replies2.5%285 in total

Quotes0.6%71 in total

Bookmarks3.8%429 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

Six Flags Lake America 1.9K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 Gulf of America didn't even bother me so much but Lake America sounds like a waterslide park where everyone gets tetanus. 395.3K views · 8.7K likes · 471 reposts · 251 replies 27 Aug 2026 A certain fatalism prevails around a celebrity’s passing but the Appalachian music tradition of which Dolly Parton was a great emissary is not even close to dead — it lives, it thrives, there are young musicians playing music and writing songs now as vital and indelibly their own 1.8K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 26 Aug 2026 Great thread: 1.8K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 Cannot remember the last time when every Instagram story was about the same person/news. Maybe the 2020 election. 1.8K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 tech journalism is downstream of tech advocacy orgs, and the weirdness of those orgs' politics is underappreciated. people should read the GNU, cypherpunk and cluetrain manifestos to understand that anticorporate libertarianism is the foundational idea. 2.2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 26 Aug 2026 It’s the age of electricity and America isn’t ready. Virtually every goal that Americans care about requires big changes to the power grid. I’m in @nytopinion today on why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, & what we need to do about it: https://t.co/wgJeAEz 273.3K views · 1.1K likes · 187 reposts · 31 replies 27 Apr 2026