Cynical Publius ✓

@CynicalPublius · Inside your OODA loop · joined 01 Nov 2016

Free thinker, despiser of totalitarianism. Branded an "intellectual terrorist" by Democrats. I'm sorry Smokey, you were over the line.

323 542Followers

14 523Following

126 492Posts total

4MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views50 694this account12 273median for 100K–1M

Reach, %15.67%this account3.89%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %7.51%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	50 694	12 273	4.13×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.67%	3.89%	4.03×
Engagement rate	7.51%	1.25%	6.00×

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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

3.8M12 May

15.7K13 May

46K14 May

19.4K23 Feb

41.4K2 Sep

74.1K3 Sep

20.1K

60K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.66%12 May

3.96%13 May

3.15%14 May

3.97%23 Feb

6.08%2 Sep

8.94%3 Sep

2.45%

9.87%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes60.3%53 389 in total

Reposts22.0%19 456 in total

Replies6.7%5 899 in total

Quotes2.7%2 382 in total

Bookmarks8.3%7 387 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

Hello @DanLamothe: This is Tom Anderson here. I am the purveyor of the popular social media commentary account, “Cynical Publius.” I am working on an article regarding the extreme lack of ethical behavior by modern American legacy media outlets such as your employer, the 60K views · 4.4K likes · 1.2K reposts · 255 replies 03 Sep 2026 POLL: As the Washington Post constantly publishes classified Pentagon information criminally leaked to it by dissatisfied, unelected, career bureaucrats, is this making America more secure or less secure? 20.1K views · 266 likes · 125 reposts · 94 replies 03 Sep 2026 I'm kinda surprised it's only 20. 74.1K views · 5.7K likes · 481 reposts · 412 replies 03 Sep 2026 I'm just wondering if these "journalists" have even the slightest conscience about the fact that they are facilitating federal employees committing national security crimes while the "journalist" himself is immune from prosecution thanks to a Supreme Court case. 41.4K views · 2K likes · 373 reposts · 144 replies 02 Sep 2026 @CynicalPublius I don’t know if you will read this or not. A lot of x big accounts use engagement games to increase followers and engagement. You are gaining your following because you post legitimately great stuff. Keep it up. 19.4K views · 724 likes · 22 reposts · 25 replies 23 Feb 2025 @CynicalPublius Freedom of speech is a beautiful thing. Weren't you censored on Twitter pre-Elon? Banned? Shadow banned? My side of history is freedom of speech. Their side of history is censorship. 46K views · 1.3K likes · 119 reposts · 32 replies 14 May 2023 @CynicalPublius Democrats want to erase history how can they possibly be on the right side of it! 15.7K views · 554 likes · 46 reposts · 21 replies 13 May 2023 I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history. My side of history is Cato the 3.8M views · 38.5K likes · 17.1K reposts · 4.9K replies 12 May 2023