Her columns’ reach has overtaken that of her colleagues in the Star who have been writing for decades.
But just in the past three months, “shares” of her columns — or when a viewer transmits it to his own Facebook time-line or twitter account, thereby multiplying the number of people reading it — have zoomed, with an average of 5,000 shares for each of her 20 most recent columns. (I get about 2,000 on the average, with some “hot columns” though registering about 40,000 shares). Her column for instance entitled “The downfall of Poe’s political future” had a phenomenal 24,000 shares. Multiply that figure by four to five times, and you’d get a good estimate how many people read the piece — around 100,000.