Steve McGuire ✓

@sfmcguire79 · Tips: sfmcguire79@proton.me · joined 21 Apr 2019

Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom @goACTA. Writings in @WSJ, @nypost, @Newsweek, @FoxNews, @RCPolitics, etc. Opinions are my own. RT ≠ endorsement.

43 425Followers

2 376Following

25 600Posts total

242.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views5 174this account3 137median for 10K–100K

Reach, %11.91%this account10.26%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.05%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 174	3 137	1.65×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	11.91%	10.26%	1.16×
Engagement rate	2.05%	1.47%	1.39×

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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

96.8K1 Sep

6.9K2 Sep

113.7K

15.7K

2.8K3 Sep

3.4K

2.4K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.62%1 Sep

1.70%2 Sep

2.67%

0.91%

2.10%3 Sep

4.41%

6.34%

2.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes71.2%4 250 in total

Reposts13.9%830 in total

Replies1.4%86 in total

Quotes1.5%88 in total

Bookmarks12.0%717 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

I’m on a panel on “Reforming the Academy: Freedom, Responsibility, and Civic Education” with @lsheahan, @tcleveland4real, and @JPfefferMerrill, and my colleague, Justin Garrison, today at the annual @APSAtweets meeting. Come say hello if you’re there: https://t.co/hfwUdtri2P 1K views · 18 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 If only the NYT had the resources to investigate the guy… 2.4K views · 135 likes · 18 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 I look forward to the scientific publishing team at Nature speaking up about the Arday editorial, which does immense damage to the credibility of their journal. 3.4K views · 140 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 The CBC was very eager to report on the American “brain drain” (scientists going to Canada due to research cuts). Any bets on whether they’ll cover this report? 2.8K views · 57 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 👇 (and periodic reminder that Nature has a news arm that is independent from the scientific publishing arm) 15.7K views · 111 likes · 8 reposts · 18 replies 02 Sep 2026 If you get your news from the New York Times, you might believe the guy who publicly wrote about wanting to “annihilate Jews” actually just wanted “Peace in the Middle East”… https://t.co/FnG4bzBHj4 113.7K views · 2.5K likes · 489 reposts · 30 replies 02 Sep 2026 CJ Carr might win the Heisman. He might even win a championship for Notre Dame. More importantly, he’s studying philosophy with my friend, @davecory, and his colleagues: ““I never really loved school growing up,’ Carr said. ‘But you get around good professors here, they have ht 6.9K views · 102 likes · 9 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 1/ OUR NEW REPORT: EQUITY REDUCES EXCELLENCE. Jason Arday was not an aberration. He was a feature, not a bug, of a system that replaced merit with identity. Our new study of nearly 2,000 prestigious Canada Research Chairs provides the hard numbers. 🧵 https://t.co/5h6ifelwmu 96.8K views · 1.2K likes · 299 reposts · 26 replies 01 Sep 2026