Mike Bird ✓

@Birdyword · New York, USA · joined 28 Apr 2010

Wall Street editor @TheEconomist. Money Talks podcast co-host. Into markets, history and economics. Author of THE LAND TRAP.

109 774Followers

2 326Following

21 201Posts total

684.8KViews on collected posts

Neueste Beiträge

Mike Bird ✓@Birdyword15 Std.

You're the guy tasked with spying on the Chinese robotics company, heading out wearing your trench coat to surreptitiously pin your secret messages to the underside of a park bench, and they all just say "lmao they're really good at this" 7.7K views · 35 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mike Bird ✓@Birdyword16 Std.

Michael Ellis, the deputy director of the CIA, acknowledged in unusually candid terms that the U.S. spies on Chinese companies and that economic competition with Beijing has broadened the spy agency's mission. https://t.co/Li5x2IsXw5

31.4K views · 255 likes · 60 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Mike Bird ✓@Birdyword20 Std.

The level of warmth that I feel for this game may be greater than any other individual media. I saved my pocket money and gifts for months to buy it, when it sold for £50 (£100 today). I played it through dozens of times. The soundtrack puts me into a form of nostalgic trance. 27.7K views · 214 likes · 7 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Mike Bird ✓@Birdyword22 Std.

New table to make legislators around the world cry just dropped https://t.co/MOvyLFnQI3

19.1K views · 95 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mike Bird ✓@Birdyword8 Sep

Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will see his pay increase from S$2.2mn (US$1.7mn) to S$3.6mn (US$2.8mn) a year, including salary and bonuses. He said he would donate the increased pay to charity for the next five years, assuming he stays in office https://t.co/o8DgeTQuRW

76.5K views · 146 likes · 25 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Mike Bird ✓@Birdyword8 Sep

Replies here are something to behold. I think for someone in my demographic living in the Brooklyn Bolshevik Belt I know a disproportionate number of Mamdani-sceptics and anti-Mamdani people, and this (particularly the very large "better than expected" result) rings true to me. 31.2K views · 71 likes · 3 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Mike Bird ✓@Birdyword4 Nov 2025

The Land Trap is now OUT in the US! Just two days to wait until the UK release. Pre-orders should be landing imminently. https://t.co/aaKeCeW4xI

491.1K views · 593 likes · 76 reposts · 48 replies Open on X →

Im Vergleich zu Konten gleicher Größe

6 Beiträge aus den letzten 90 Tagen, verglichen mit der Größenklasse 100K–1M Follower. wird weit gezeigt, aber nur wenige dieser Zuschauer reagieren.

Medianaufrufe29 477dieses Konto4 914Median für 100K–1M

Reichweite, %26.85%dieses Konto1.71%Median für 100K–1M

Interaktion, %0.54%dieses Konto1.24%Median für 100K–1M

Kennzahl	Dieses Konto	Median für 100K–1M	Verhältnis
Medianaufrufe pro Beitrag	29 477	4 914	6.00×
Reichweite (Aufrufe ÷ Follower)	26.85%	1.71%	15.7×
Interaktionsrate	0.54%	1.24%	0.43×

Weitere Konten dieser Größe → Mit einem anderen Konto vergleichen → Wie diese Vergleichswerte entstehen →

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

491.1K4 Nov

31.2K8 Sep

76.5K

19.1K

27.7K

31.4K

7.7K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.15%4 Nov

0.26%8 Sep

0.25%

0.54%

0.85%

1.04%

0.53%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.24%.

What the audience does

Likes68.5%1 409 in total

Reposts8.9%182 in total

Replies4.1%84 in total

Quotes2.5%52 in total

Bookmarks16.0%329 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.