How I Write Clips ✓

@PerellClips

I interview the world's top writers. New episodes every Wednesday, and this is a feed of the very best clips. My personal account: @david_perell

5 638Followers

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417Posts total

869.8KViews on collected posts

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How I Write Clips ✓@PerellClips15 Sep

@PerellClips LIFE IS A CLICHE THE PROSE IS A META COMMENTARY YOU SICK FUCK https://t.co/X3cOn2qXFB

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How I Write Clips ✓@PerellClips15 Sep

@PerellClips This is just within the first 11 pages https://t.co/0efi0dVhez

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How I Write Clips ✓@PerellClips14 Sep

@PerellClips I always like to put the second one on page 387 to make Franzen work but deny him my sick, totally non-cliche ending. 7.8K views · 271 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

How I Write Clips ✓@PerellClips14 Sep

"You get at most one cliché per book." Jonathan Franzen doesn't finish most books people send him. He reads until the second cliché, then stops. "People send me a galley of a book that's coming out. I read along until I get to the second cliché, and I say, thank you." "They ht

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Face aux comptes de taille comparable

4 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de under 10K abonnés. diffusé à plus de monde que les comptes de taille comparable.

Vues médianes84 055ce compte4 175médiane pour under 10K

Portée, %1490.87%ce compte250.82%médiane pour under 10K

Engagement, %1.33%ce compte1.41%médiane pour under 10K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour under 10K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	84 055	4 175	20.1×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	14.9× audience	2.5× audience	5.94×
Taux d'engagement	1.33%	1.41%	0.94×

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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

696.3K14 Sep

7.8K

160.3K15 Sep

5.5K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.13%14 Sep

3.56%

0.29%15 Sep

2.37%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes62.2%1 389 in total

Reposts2.7%60 in total

Replies6.0%133 in total

Quotes7.3%164 in total

Bookmarks21.8%487 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.