Michael S. Schmidt Audience Graph • Social Signal

Nine of Michael S. Schmidt's ten nearest neighbors are fellow journalists — a same-kind cluster that leaves almost no room for any other subcategory. Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audiences resemble each other in composition; scores across the top 10 run from 0.99 down to 0.99, a band so compressed it defines the flat shape.

Peter Baker leads at 0.99, followed by Josh Dawsey (0.99), Betsy Woodruff Swan (0.99), and Sam Stein (0.99). David Frum (0.99), Maggie Haberman (0.99), Ashley Parker (0.99), Glenn Thrush (0.99), and Jonathan Lemire (0.99) round out the journalist bloc. The single exception is Andy Borowitz (0.99), a comedian — the lone non-journalist in the top 10. The spread across all ten neighbors is less than 0.007, meaning no single neighbor stands out and no structural gap separates the closest from the tenth.

What the shape reveals is an audience defined almost entirely by political journalism as a category: the people who follow Schmidt follow the same tight constellation of Washington and national-security reporters, with essentially no daylight between them.

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Attention graph /similar sample results (free):

https://graphs.socialsignal.ai/similar/nytmike

{ "handle": "nytmike", "title": "Michael S. Schmidt", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "resolved": "nytmike", "k": 10, "shape": "flat", "filter": null, "results": [ { "handle": "peterbakernyt", "title": "Peter Baker", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9926, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "jdawsey1", "title": "Josh Dawsey", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9902, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "woodruffbets", "title": "Betsy Woodruff Swan", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9893, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "samstein", "title": "Sam Stein", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9892, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "davidfrum", "title": "David Frum", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9889, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "A01", "G03", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "maggienyt", "title": "Maggie Haberman", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.988, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J01" ] }, { "handle": "ashleyrparker", "title": "Ashley Parker", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9879, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J01" ] }, { "handle": "borowitzreport", "title": "Andy Borowitz", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Comedians", "similarity": 0.9875, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "glennthrush", "title": "Glenn Thrush", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9869, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J02" ] }, { "handle": "jonlemire", "title": "Jonathan Lemire", "category": "Celebrities and Influencers", "subcategory": "Journalists", "similarity": 0.9866, "drivers": [ "A02", "G01", "G03", "A01", "J02" ] } ] }

Full Attention graph /similarity /affinity /demographics available with API key:

https://graphs.socialsignal.ai/v1/attention/similar/nytmike

Michael S. Schmidt

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