Stephen Hayes ✓

@stephenfhayes · Annapolis, MD · joined 29 Aug 2009

Editor/CEO, @thedispatch. NBC News Political Analyst. To sign up for The Dispatch, go here: https://t.co/vPWZNEYd25

267 119Followers

1 924Following

31 942Posts total

175.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Stephen Hayes ✓@stephenfhayes2 Sep

Truly outrageous 37.5K views · 409 likes · 24 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Stephen Hayes ✓@stephenfhayes2 Sep

The Dispatch Podcast, now on Youtube. A lively discussion on the troubling US-govt deal w/Venezuela & the first six months of the Iran War. Plus, NWYT, the pros & cons of Milo Yiannopolous' deportation. @JonahDispatch @mikenelson586 & Kevin Williamson. https://t.co/T3P05o1nAz 13K views · 37 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Stephen Hayes ✓@stephenfhayes1 Sep

NEW: Dispatch Podcast on Trump's Venezuela gambit, the Iran War six months in, and, in Not Worth Your Time, the deportation of Milo Yiannopolous. W/@JonahDispatch, @mikenelson586 and Kevin D. Williamson. https://t.co/trWnLxo0UF 6.3K views · 24 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Stephen Hayes ✓@stephenfhayes1 Sep

These videos are outstanding - kudos to @emmma_camp_ 20.6K views · 502 likes · 49 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Stephen Hayes ✓@stephenfhayes30 Aug

And yet some ostensibly "free market" Republicans are praising the deal, e.g. Ted Cruz on "Meet the Press" this morning. 20.7K views · 187 likes · 23 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Stephen Hayes ✓@stephenfhayes30 Aug

If people like myself and Scott, and a variety of free market conservatives who maintain affection for the classical economic principles we were raised on got together a couple of years ago to “worst case scenario” what could happen in the administration, we would not have come 77.7K views · 521 likes · 125 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views20 632this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %7.72%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.97%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	20 632	5 983	3.45×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.72%	1.49%	5.18×
Engagement rate	0.97%	0.93%	1.04×

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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

77.7K30 Aug

20.7K

20.6K1 Sep

6.3K

13K2 Sep

37.5K

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

0.87%30 Aug

1.07%

2.71%1 Sep

0.46%

0.32%2 Sep

1.20%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes82.3%1 680 in total

Reposts11.3%230 in total

Replies2.6%53 in total

Quotes0.5%10 in total

Bookmarks3.3%68 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.