Garance Franke-Ruta ✓

@thegarance · New York City · joined 31 Jul 2007

Tweeting on politics, media, and NYC. Same handle on all the other platforms.

64 745Followers

21 422Following

175 158Posts total

83.5KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Garance Franke-Ruta ✓@thegarance3 Sep

How about a journalist editing campaign coverage on the floor near an outlet following a political convention amid the remains of a hurricane (true story) 2.1K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Garance Franke-Ruta ✓@thegarance1 Sep

CJR on the Mamdani Administration influencers: "New York City agency employees told us that the going pay rate is five thousand to twenty thousand dollars per influencer campaign. The fees are paid to influencers who are given contracts by marketing and advertising agencies that 1.6K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Garance Franke-Ruta ✓@thegarance30 Aug

TBH any other NYC political organization this influential would pay its leaders $120-245K. Each. It’s possible DSA has so many well-to-do folks in its higher ranks because no one else can afford to do the amount of unpaid labor involved. Think Vogue intern economics, but for the 50.7K views · 236 likes · 17 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

Garance Franke-Ruta ✓@thegarance29 Aug

An easier and less culturally disruptive approach would be to extend measures to bring reasonable height housing to the major thoroughfares, so that Atlantic, Fulton, Flushing, and Broadway — to take one set of examples — no longer have so many one-story commercial buildings, 1.8K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Garance Franke-Ruta ✓@thegarance29 Aug

Zohran can upzone the blue areas and be a legend start with Williamsburg and Bushwick, we need brand new 50-story mixed-income apartment buildings surrounding each stop on the L train 26.5K views · 568 likes · 32 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Garance Franke-Ruta ✓@thegarance19 Aug

When Money Isn’t Enough: Why the Bigger Spenders Keep Losing Elections https://t.co/qDnFchYttN 827 views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 966this account935median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.04%this account3.43%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.44%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 966	935	2.10×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.04%	3.43%	0.89×
Engagement rate	0.44%	1.55%	0.28×

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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

82719 Aug

26.5K29 Aug

1.8K

50.7K30 Aug

1.6K1 Sep

2.1K3 Sep

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

0.60%19 Aug

2.36%29 Aug

0.28%

0.55%30 Aug

0.32%1 Sep

0.33%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes83.8%818 in total

Reposts5.4%53 in total

Replies4.8%47 in total

Quotes0.8%8 in total

Bookmarks5.1%50 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.