Katy Waldman

@xwaldie · joined 04 Sep 2010

writer @newyorker. formerly @slate. moves like ice on a hot stove. sorry for tweeting this, I don’t have instagram!

13 434Followers

965Following

5 135Posts total

113.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Katy Waldman@xwaldie7 Sep

Doesn’t really crack the top 10 bathetic things about this post but isn’t the lanterns show about racism? 1.1K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Katy Waldman@xwaldie1 Sep

Loved this (and not just because I narrowly missed catching a stray) Let's not lose the "critical edifice" that helps us "assimilate contemporary fiction," and that partly sustains novelty in novels themselves! https://t.co/56v7IEoCIA 3.8K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Katy Waldman@xwaldie31 Aug

Kinda liked it. https://t.co/O8iQrljNgh 21.6K views · 152 likes · 10 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Katy Waldman@xwaldie30 Jul

Cool opportunity for books journalists and editors; Washington Monthly is launching a freestanding book review section https://t.co/6Cz14h0QB2 5.3K views · 87 likes · 19 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Katy Waldman@xwaldie18 Jun

I like how this shows the *emptiness* of the type of book that mostly serves as an ad campaign for the brilliance of the MC. It’s not just that the posturing is annoying! It’s that there’s often nothing else there. You can be annoying if you back it up! https://t.co/m1F4ZfRJqu 21.3K views · 105 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Katy Waldman@xwaldie17 Jun

“The Vivisectors,” by Missouri Williams, critiques the hollowness of contemporary life. But it’s tricky to gauge the book’s level of self-awareness. https://t.co/U2z1s6KhnN 60K views · 44 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views5 295this account1 072median for 10K–100K

Reach, %39.41%this account3.86%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.63%this account1.70%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 295	1 072	4.94×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	39.41%	3.86%	10.2×
Engagement rate	0.63%	1.70%	0.37×

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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

60K17 Jun

21.3K18 Jun

5.3K30 Jul

21.6K31 Aug

3.8K1 Sep

1.1K7 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

0.08%17 Jun

0.53%18 Jun

2.02%30 Jul

0.79%31 Aug

0.63%1 Sep

0.18%7 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.70%.

What the audience does

Likes64.9%412 in total

Reposts5.4%34 in total

Replies1.7%11 in total

Quotes1.4%9 in total

Bookmarks26.6%169 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.