Walter Kirn ✓

@walterkirn · joined 08 Jun 2009

Editor-at-Large @CountyHwy. Books: Blood Will Out, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker, She Needed Me, Mission to America, My Hard Bargain, There's a Bear in the House!

251 287Followers

7 266Following

58 776Posts total

2.6MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views5 318this account5 930median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.12%this account2.48%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.89%this account1.41%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	5 318	5 930	0.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.12%	2.48%	0.85×
Engagement rate	0.89%	1.41%	0.63×

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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

2.3M1 Sep

6.9K

20.5K2 Sep

216.7K28 Aug

4.3K3 Sep

6.7K

20.7K

5.7K

1.3K4 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.30%1 Sep

3.98%

1.94%2 Sep

0.32%28 Aug

0.78%3 Sep

1.00%

1.64%

1.61%

1.35%

0.44%

0.38%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes72.6%7 180 in total

Reposts13.0%1 281 in total

Replies5.1%500 in total

Quotes1.3%128 in total

Bookmarks8.0%795 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 know, I know. I know! But I can't help myself. https://t.co/Vx2ILFedYM 1.3K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Some have asked me which Shakespeare speeches Jorge Borges edited (improving them, he felt) and recited for us. Now I'm sure this was one, from King Lear. "It should have one more 'no,'" he told our group. "Don't you agree?" https://t.co/IlhNPUYyGb 5.7K views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 I have a column in County Highway, When Animals Attack. The next issue's is about Pythons in Hollywood. I always draw an important moral! This story came too late for my recent deadline: An aggressive mystery animal is attacking people in New Hampshire. https://t.co/6BSoQnYF5x 5K views · 47 likes · 7 reposts · 11 replies 03 Sep 2026 Borges was led in on his cane by his nurse. She sat him down in front of the small group of us, facing us, in his big dark glasses. He began, after a pause: "What would you like to know?" Total silence. Which went on. People too astonished and shy to speak. Genuinely 20.7K views · 308 likes · 14 reposts · 10 replies 03 Sep 2026 @walterkirn I remember reading Robert Graves's Oxford lectures where he'd take a stanza from Donne or Wordsworth (I can't remember from whom specifically but of that stature) and tear them apart. Then he'd tell you how they should have been written is. I thought, "Who the hell do 6.7K views · 109 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @walterkirn Borges is my favorite author. I found a special printing of Ficciones illustrated by Sol LeWitt, one of my favorite contemporary artists, in our local bookstore. Any chance you are a fan of Elizabeth Bishop? 4K views · 38 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 @walterkirn The highlight of my literary evening was reading this post--seeing and hearing it quite clearly in imagination-- doubting nothing. Thank you kindly 4.3K views · 33 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Interesting that many of Borges’ stories are what we now call genre fiction. The Garden of Forking Paths (Branching Paths in the Giovanni translation) is a pocket version of a Buchan spy thriller, There Are More Things an explicit homage to Lovecraft, etc. He had the erudition 216.7K views · 647 likes · 26 reposts · 13 replies 28 Aug 2026 Cameo star may be in it: https://t.co/I2OPnBjxFE 20.5K views · 364 likes · 16 reposts · 19 replies 02 Sep 2025 @walterkirn O, no… The beagles… This will be a hard, hard, movie to watch. Really captures the evil. The glibness. Futurecide. I wanted to weep with rage just watching the trailer! 6.9K views · 261 likes · 6 reposts · 7 replies 01 Sep 2025 Hello, world. Something to show you. A teaser trailer for The Rash, a script I wrote this year for Onset Creative & Nicole Shanahan. The feature film is now in the financing phase. Interested investors may contact me by X DM for more info. Enjoy. I think you'll get the pictu 2.3M views · 5.3K likes · 1.2K reposts · 433 replies 01 Sep 2025