Tom Gara ✓

@tomgara · PGP: http://bit.ly/1Nja4jP · joined 07 May 2007

writing and editing things. now: @meta, formerly @buzzfeednews, @wsj, @ft, views always my own, etc

63 955Followers

1 715Following

139 456Posts total

100.4KViews on collected posts

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Tom Gara ✓@tomgara11 Sep 2024

You can find me on the other place, although I may lose my willpower and come back here. Crazy to think I’ve been posting furiously here for 15 years! Changed my life! Shaped my whole career! I love so many of you and will miss it! 22.6K views · 96 likes · 3 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

Tom Gara ✓@tomgara11 Sep 2024

Always thought I'd be a Twitter lifer, never bought into the various Elon-era waves of people leaving. But I think I'm done here. The ambient level of vile, repulsive stuff has reached a point where I think it's probably bad for me, even if I try to deny it. 45.7K views · 323 likes · 14 reposts · 35 replies Open on X →

Tom Gara ✓@tomgara11 Sep 2024

First person shown in this video: “they’re a bunch of worthless fucking sand monkeys”. Fourth person shown in this video: “people want to turn this into a race issue. It’s not a race issue…” 7.9K views · 27 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Tom Gara ✓@tomgara11 Sep 2024

I did just see a video of Charlie Kirk debating 25 college liberals at once, like one of those chess masters who plays simultaneous games against a whole room of challengers. So I'm he's clearly got his eyes on the prize 5K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tom Gara ✓@tomgara11 Sep 2024

Seems like early September is the right time to just throw an open question out there: Given the nature of this race and Trump's need to get low propensity voters to the polls, how confident are YOU in the fact that he's outsourced huge chunks of his GOTV to Charlie Kirk? 13.4K views · 47 likes · 7 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Tom Gara ✓@tomgara11 Sep 2024

It does raise the really intriguing possibility that an enterprising Florida man of South Asian origin has figured out how to get free meals at Mar-a-Lago for months by pretending to be the head of the Taliban 5.8K views · 39 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

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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.

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Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes80.8%546 in total

Reposts4.1%28 in total

Replies10.1%68 in total

Quotes1.5%10 in total

Bookmarks3.6%24 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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