talmon joseph smith

@talmonsmith · NYC via NOLA⚜️ · joined 29 Sep 2015

economics reporter for @NYTimes || formerly @GQmagazine, NYU, @tufts || newyorleanian || talmon.smith@nytimes.com || author of 'What Can We Afford' (March 2027)

16 656Followers

4 136Following

35 523Posts total

71.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views646this account3 259median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.88%this account10.24%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.56%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	646	3 259	0.20×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.88%	10.24%	0.38×
Engagement rate	0.56%	1.40%	0.40×

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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

58.6K22 May

6.1K2 Sep

6463 Sep

357

4.9K

633

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

0.70%22 May

0.60%2 Sep

0.46%3 Sep

0.56%

0.41%

1.58%

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

What the audience does

Likes85.3%417 in total

Reposts9.8%48 in total

Replies2.7%13 in total

Quotes1.0%5 in total

Bookmarks1.2%6 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 wont name which industries because i have sources in all sectors and "i love all my children equally"... but there are already some entire categories of white collar work in which it's considered offensive to work on Friday's after 11am so: why not just formalize 4 all-in days? 633 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 "thing is we wouldn't even be having this conversation if this war weren't going on, if oil weren't where it is. this isn't a deficit concern or anything like that - this is really mostly related to oil. there is a .7 correlation between oil and yields right now"--Abby Yoder, JPM 4.9K views · 13 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 "if inflation comes in hot, I would consider a rate hike... it may not take much acceleration in inflation to nudge me into supporting tighter policy."--Chris Waller https://t.co/th1hi4IbWP 357 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 the 10yr too https://t.co/Rc07xm5vGS 646 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 great chart by Matt. this is a biggie. you can afford to let services prices run sorta hot (and hope some of that heat gets transferred to real wages) especially when goods disinflation is in full force, as it was in the 2010s but that trend in goods is so over what do we do😭 ht 6.1K views · 27 likes · 4 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 human reporters > AI ✊🏾 https://t.co/4Gagf0qMKn 58.6K views · 364 likes · 40 reposts · 5 replies 22 May 2026