Todd Bensman ✓

@BensmanTodd · Austin, TX · joined 12 Aug 2018

Senior Research Fellow Heritage Foundation Border and Immigration; fmr Sr Adviser DHS/Nat’l Counterterrorism Center; recovering journo 20 yrs. opinions my own.

53 005Followers

546Following

10 952Posts total

5.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 228this account2 968median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.32%this account9.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.32%this account1.42%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 228	2 968	0.41×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.32%	9.18%	0.25×
Engagement rate	3.32%	1.42%	2.33×

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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

1.3K2 Sep

1.4K3 Sep

1.3K

1.2K

3854 Sep

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

Engagement rate per post

4.18%2 Sep

0.00%

1.18%3 Sep

4.37%

3.26%

3.38%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes59.9%112 in total

Reposts27.8%52 in total

Replies5.3%10 in total

Quotes2.1%4 in total

Bookmarks4.8%9 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.

Latest posts

And here we go: with the 9/11 cray: Canadian Broadcast Corporation issued a Memorandum directing reporters to refrain from describing the 9/11 terror attacks as “terror attacks.” “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,’the memo said.” https://t.co/IBuhMmzGA7 385 views · 8 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 “Where does Tom Homan go to get his apology? Trump’s border czar was never waving the white flag on enforcement, and now he has the numbers to prove it.” Still need the full backing deportation statistics; I’m told they’ll be released soon. We’ll see. https://t.co/VS2sFrVp89 ht 1.2K views · 25 likes · 9 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 “Expect schoolteachers, media pundits, and elected leaders speechifying at the New York memorial to pretzel-twist themselves around ever saying aloud that a religious motive rooted in Islamist ideology drove the 9/11 hijackers to that mass murder—and still does.” 1.3K views · 33 likes · 15 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 https://t.co/fRyG2yJS6v 1.4K views · 10 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @BensmanTodd @Bannons_WarRoom Maybe the reason the MSM and dems are ignoring this: They are coordinating with the cartels to destroy us. 14 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Talking again on @Bannons_WarRoom all about cartels training up next level on drone warfare in Ukraine and why Americans need to care. https://t.co/JWM5HQvem8 1.3K views · 36 likes · 17 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026