Samuel Moyn 🔭

@samuelmoyn · New Haven, CT · joined 18 Jan 2009

“Forerunner” (NY Mag). “Middler” (NYer). “Howlingly wrong” (colleague). “Gerontocracy in America” (2026). “I didn’t expect it to gain immediate acceptance.”

46 470Followers

799Following

43 623Posts total

26.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views6 204this account3 259median for 10K–100K

Reach, %13.35%this account10.24%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.59%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 204	3 259	1.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.35%	10.24%	1.30×
Engagement rate	0.59%	1.40%	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

12.6K2 Sep

1.6K3 Sep

10.7K

1.7K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.59%2 Sep

0.87%3 Sep

0.45%

0.60%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes50.2%109 in total

Reposts9.2%20 in total

Replies6.9%15 in total

Quotes0.9%2 in total

Bookmarks32.7%71 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

Congrats https://t.co/bcbNuRIfjh 1.7K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Phew, a has-been can still be mistaken for a rising star https://t.co/f81zfGs0jr 10.7K views · 38 likes · 0 reposts · 9 replies 03 Sep 2026 Um, maybe the elder Bush did. ‘The Bushes believed in diplomacy and international engagement; Trump favored putting “America First.”’ https://t.co/ou1sCCaBI5 1.6K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 Indeed. “Historical writing should aspire to higher aims and riskier arguments than those that merely flatter the sentiments of anti-Trump partisans who, overwhelmed by the present, find satisfying displeasure in echoes from the past.” https://t.co/30JLrb1f4K via @NYTimes 12.6K views · 54 likes · 16 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 The limits of my Bitmojis are the limits of my world. https://t.co/VIxlvJ7BMM 0 views · 265 likes · 22 reposts · 22 replies 02 Sep 2018