Alec MacGillis ✓
@AlecMacGillis · Baltimore via Pittsfield, Mass · joined 14 Dec 2011
@ProPublica. Author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC.
79 732Followers
9 274Following
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7.3MViews on collected posts
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@AlecMacGillis Didn’t think crawl copy editors were so old
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Bravo, CNBC crawl writer. https://t.co/qGdDWANLgp
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"Gov. Josh Shapiro was all-in, fast-tracking approvals for the enormous Amazon data center and offering incentives to bring data centers to old industrial hubs like Pittsburgh...But now, things have shifted."
Good @dgelles piece: https://t.co/Ha0zXUefVU
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@AlecMacGillis Gross! Stop harassing good people
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An AI-based private-school chain: "Just 1 year after the state rejected its charter school application, Alpha has quadrupled its Texas private schools, w/ >30 virtual and in-person campuses, most which were accepted into the voucher program." @LChurchilll:
https://t.co/vtSUts19WE
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@AlecMacGillis I wish Ukraine and Iran War cheerleaders realized BEFORE we're stuck in a hopeless quagmire, that innocent people will pay dearly for their desire to believe fairy tales.
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"There are now 74 underground schools in Ukraine, a stark measure of the drawn-out nature of the war and a campaign of Russian bombardment that is only escalating more than 4 years in. 'It’s impossible to get an education now without going underground.'" https://t.co/0WtJqZkR28
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@AlecMacGillis A Maryland mother! We’ve moved on from Maryland man now?
That U.S. citizen should move to Guatemala.
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Lorenza Temaj Jiguan entered US illegally in 2009. She married a US citizen, had 2 kids. She obtained a waiver in 2025 affirming that if she went back to Guatemala to apply for a visa she could return. She left in May and applied.
Now she can't come back. https://t.co/DJpV8Zg7L6
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“A human community if it is to last long, must exert a... centripetal force, holding local soil and memory in place. Practically speaking, human society has no work more important...When a community loses its memory, its members no longer know each other." https://t.co/FSZuLE4Vh0
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@AlecMacGillis It kind of blows me away that 575 square feet and $2100 in rent is seen seen as so remarkable to generate a profile about!
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Today's WSJ has capsule profiles of five young people in NY who lucked into rent-stabilized apartments. Here is one: https://t.co/S57ymwAH8r
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@AlecMacGillis Giving up everything to become the top user of AI at my company
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Meanwhile, also from today's papers: https://t.co/e6jc6bXoQM
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This is pretty bleak. https://t.co/dr0BYzr3NO
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@AlecMacGillis If it is the Underground Railroad, they missed the Eastern Shore of Maryland - Dorchester County - home of Harriet Tubman
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The route of Tocqueville's travels!
https://t.co/fUG32p4EEy
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Your special Juneteenth quiz: what is this a map of? Answer in 15 minutes. https://t.co/ukOAXGQmGh
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It's important to have more than just one or two papers providing national news and commentary in a country of 335 million.
Despite all the cuts, the local section still provides essential coverage of a major metro area.
They have two of the best art critics.
#whyisubscribe
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Face aux comptes de taille comparable
15 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. en dessous de ses pairs à la fois en portée et en engagement.
Vues médianes1 444ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K
Portée, %1.81%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.73%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K
| Indicateur | Ce compte | Médiane pour 10K–100K | Rapport |
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| Vues médianes par post | 1 444 | 924 | 1.56× |
| Portée (vues ÷ abonnés) | 1.81% | 3.62% | 0.50× |
| Taux d'engagement | 0.73% | 1.52% | 0.48× |
Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →
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
100.4K1 Sep
70.2K
1.3K2 Sep
3.1K
123
9.3K
81
1.4K
57
1.5K
75.3K4 Sep
572
365
4095 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.11%1 Sep
1.84%
0.47%2 Sep
1.07%
0.81%
0.23%
1.23%
0.76%
0.00%
1.36%
0.59%4 Sep
0.17%
0.55%
0.73%5 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes79.1%37 708 in total
Reposts2.7%1 270 in total
Replies1.5%704 in total
Quotes1.9%919 in total
Bookmarks14.8%7 059 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.
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