Dasha Burns ✓

@DashaBurns · Washington, DC · joined 21 Apr 2012

Playbook Co-Author, Global Anchor, and Host of The Conversation @POLITICO; former @NBCNews Correspondent; dog-lover 🐶 & raw fish addict 🍣 dburns@politico.com

49 118Followers

2 829Following

3 756Posts total

564.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views15 138this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %30.82%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.36%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	15 138	2 751	5.50×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	30.82%	9.00%	3.42×
Engagement rate	0.36%	1.65%	0.22×

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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

50.6K31 Aug

4.5K

2.9K

21.2K

15.1K1 Sep

456.8K2 Sep

13.8K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.06%31 Aug

0.67%

0.56%

0.48%

0.30%1 Sep

0.08%2 Sep

0.36%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes64.9%444 in total

Reposts12.6%86 in total

Replies10.4%71 in total

Quotes7.0%48 in total

Bookmarks5.1%35 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

Sen. Susan Collins: "I'm not going to bring up that the mother of his two children is his second cousin." 13.8K views · 35 likes · 5 reposts · 7 replies 02 Sep 2026 Would Troy Jackson be a tougher opponent than Graham Platner? Sen. Susan Collins argued the two have “different vulnerabilities” but took aim at Jackson’s record on electric rates and his family ties. Watch her full interview with our @jmart: https://t.co/omt4o33sdt https://t.c 456.8K views · 280 likes · 23 reposts · 37 replies 02 Sep 2026 🧵THREAD: What I learned about the state of U.S. trade talks with Canada from my interview with @USTradeRep Jamieson Greer ⬇️ Greer tells me “there are no negotiations happening on trade right now” with Canada, and says that it is “more their emergency than ours.” https://t.co/VF 15.1K views · 20 likes · 13 reposts · 10 replies 01 Sep 2026 SCOOP: @KenPaxtonTX’s super PAC will launch a $15 million ad campaign for two weeks starting on Tuesday, the first major ad buy on behalf of Paxton in his battleground matchup with James Talarico. The two new ads from Lone Star Liberty PAC will highlight Paxton’s record taking h 21.2K views · 54 likes · 32 reposts · 11 replies 31 Aug 2026 SPOTTED: Treasury Secretary @SecScottBessent and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh flying together from JBA to Asheville for the G20 finance meeting. It’s notable given that tension between Treasury and the Fed have grown more visible. Bessent has pushed Treasury into territory that can ht 2.9K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 Back from vacation and back in action with @adamwren and @wsteaks ! 4.5K views · 24 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 Our @DashaBurns, @wsteaks and @adamwren have taken the reins of Playbook as co-authors — and they’ve already set the agenda through a wild ride of midterm primaries. Get ready for more must-read reporting in our revamped @playbookdc, starting Monday👇 https://t.co/0RmwEMc96T htt 50.6K views · 18 likes · 7 reposts · 4 replies 31 Aug 2026