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Jim Acosta has 603,939 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #3 on Substack's News Bestsellers board. 84 publications recommend them, 14 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 43.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
603,939
read Nov 1
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
306K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
Tens of thousands
bestseller badge 10,000+
Recommended by
84
+14 in 30 days
Recommends
43
Bestsellers rank
#3
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Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

590k600k610k620k Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 12 more days to fill this frame 603,939
590k600k610k620k Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 8 more days to fill this frame 603,939
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Jim Acosta on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Nov 1, 2026603,939+318306K+Tens of thousands
Oct 31, 2026603,621306K+Tens of thousands

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
News Bestsellers#3#34 of 4
Podcasts Bestsellers#28#264 of 4
News Rising#5#24 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
News Bestsellers33330
Podcasts Bestsellers26262628▼2
News Rising3225▼2

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Recommendations

84 publications recommend Jim Acosta; 14 started in the last 30 days. Jim Acosta recommends 43, and 16 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

2Jan 25475Apr4Jul1Oct11Jan 262Apr1215Jul91020Oct
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Jul 2026 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2025-012
2025-024
2025-037
2025-045
2025-054
2025-091
2025-111
2025-121
2026-032
2026-051
2026-062
2026-0715
2026-089
2026-0910
2026-1020

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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

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Publications that recommend at least two other News writers with 50,000 or more followers (56 writers in that group), but not Jim Acosta.

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