Brian Brushwood ✓

@shwood · Austin, TX · joined 04 May 2008

Host of Discovery’s “Scam School” - Nat Geo’s “Hacking the System” - “Modern Rogue” on YouTube - and (my favorite) the podcast “World’s Greatest Con”

1 360 472Followers

661 128Following

99 174Posts total

176KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views30 190this account21 624median for 1M–10M

Reach, %2.22%this account0.92%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %0.09%this account1.63%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	30 190	21 624	1.40×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.22%	0.92%	2.41×
Engagement rate	0.09%	1.63%	0.05×

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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

24.8K2 Sep

39.8K

35.3K

42.2K

25.1K3 Sep

8.9K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.19%2 Sep

0.01%

0.10%

0.08%3 Sep

0.15%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes54.2%77 in total

Reposts9.9%14 in total

Replies23.9%34 in total

Quotes2.1%3 in total

Bookmarks9.9%14 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 just added what I think is a very clever opening thingy at https://t.co/7VY2MHaH8D... can you try it and see if it works? 8.9K views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 And it's just beginning. #scampocalypse 25.1K views · 16 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 I’m working on this as fast as I can, gang. Take a look at https://t.co/4wGh5TfOTg for more 42.2K views · 32 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 haha 35.3K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @shwood So glad I retired 39.8K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 An important poll to determine your business-speaking age. Select the one you'd be most comfortable using at the office in regular communication: 24.8K views · 16 likes · 1 reposts · 28 replies 02 Sep 2026