Commentary - Sowell Economics ✓

@sowelleconomics

34 277Followers

216Following

16 022Posts total

285.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views9 588this account980median for 10K–100K

Reach, %27.97%this account3.27%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.87%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	9 588	980	9.78×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	27.97%	3.27%	8.55×
Engagement rate	1.87%	2.01%	0.93×

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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

255.3K3 Sep

12.6K

9.6K

669

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

2.29%3 Sep

3.28%

1.52%

1.87%

1.20%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes65.4%4 965 in total

Reposts17.5%1 327 in total

Replies1.2%88 in total

Quotes1.1%80 in total

Bookmarks15.0%1 136 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

@sowelleconomics It's like Jordan Peterson says, "Nobody's more annoying than a successful minority." 669 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

An Asian head of a family talking about the experience of going from being a Ugandan citizen to being expelled. Heartbreaking. https://t.co/xaf7bbHBee 9.6K views · 152 likes · 20 reposts · 6 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

This is a clip taken in 1972 of Ugandan citizens reacting to the expulsion of Asian Gujaratis in the country by Idi Amin. One citizen comments: “Asians are very shrewd people, and Africans have been denied opportunities.” Reminds one of an observation by Thomas Sowell: https:// 12.6K views · 151 likes · 32 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@sowelleconomics @sanjeevsanyal This repeated in Burma, Sri Lanka, and many other countries. Sri Lankan conflict started with jealousy against prosperous Hindu Tamils. 7K views · 206 likes · 16 reposts · 6 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Uganda expelled the Gujaratis in the 1970s. They were “too wealthy” and controlled too much of the economy. They left with almost nothing. A few years later they were prosperous in England. Uganda’s economy collapsed. You can seize shops and inventory. You cannot seize the ht 255.3K views · 4.4K likes · 1.3K reposts · 68 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →