Sam Bowman ✓

@s8mb · London · joined 16 Jan 2007

Editor-in-chief of @WorksinProgMag. Editor at @StripePress and head of publishing at @stripe.

69 754Followers

1 696Following

21 486Posts total

602.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views37 518this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %53.79%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.26%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	37 518	2 751	13.6×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	53.79%	9.00%	5.98×
Engagement rate	0.26%	1.65%	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

494.1K30 Aug

58K

4.3K

8.8K

37.5K31 Aug

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

0.15%30 Aug

0.90%

0.26%

2.26%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes69.2%1 542 in total

Reposts6.6%147 in total

Replies14.8%329 in total

Quotes5.7%126 in total

Bookmarks3.8%84 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

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