EJ Dionne

@EJDionne · Bethesda, MD · joined 02 Jan 2012

New York Times opinion writer, Georgetown prof, Brookings senior fellow. Author of “Code Red” and Co-Author of “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting.”

161 878Followers

3 084Following

29 687Posts total

9.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views2 396this account6 178median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.48%this account2.63%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.37%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	2 396	6 178	0.39×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.48%	2.63%	0.56×
Engagement rate	1.37%	1.40%	0.98×

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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

3K3 Sep

1.9K

2.8K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.66%3 Sep

0.37%

2.53%

2.07%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes67.1%98 in total

Reposts26.0%38 in total

Replies2.1%3 in total

Bookmarks4.8%7 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

This fine piece by @LeahLitman about SCOTUS’s latest outlandish decision, allowing Trump to go ahead with his ballroom, makes the essential point: Court conservatives make little or no distinction between federal & presidential power. Creeping monarchism! https://t.co/BXBEFS 2K views · 22 likes · 20 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Pope Leo XIV is changing the public voice of American Catholicism—and not only because he’s from Chicago and is a baseball fan. On AI, social justice & immigration, he speaks for a strong but often forgotten U.S. church tradition. My @commonwealmag essay https://t.co/kDOd53q 2.8K views · 54 likes · 13 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 Those tariffs are doing a heck of a job closing that trade deficit….oh wait! https://t.co/XTJOyTRAV6 1.9K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 For anyone who is wondering why there is a lot of economic discontent. 3K views · 17 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Publication day for our new book! “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting.” Deep gratitude to my co-author & friend @MilesRapoport, the great @hmcghee for her wonderful foreword & @thenewpress. Orders, retweets, reviews, critiques welcomed! Thanks! https://t.co/0u1 0 views · 215 likes · 87 reposts · 52 replies 22 Mar 2022