Frances Robles

@FrancesRobles · Florida, USA · joined 24 Mar 2009

New York Times Latin America correspondent. Proud Guild leader, helping ensure NYT is a fair and equitable place to work. tips? https://t.co/iUO7tbomUR

23 060Followers

4 559Following

16 016Posts total

6.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views436this account1 089median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.89%this account3.50%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.84%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	436	1 089	0.40×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.89%	3.50%	0.54×
Engagement rate	0.84%	2.00%	0.42×

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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

1.8K29 Jan

2.5K27 Aug

159

432

707

6128 Aug

4403 Sep

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

0.27%29 Jan

1.25%27 Aug

1.26%

0.00%

0.99%

0.00%28 Aug

0.68%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes51.7%30 in total

Reposts25.9%15 in total

Replies5.2%3 in total

Quotes1.7%1 in total

Bookmarks15.5%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.

Followers by day

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

The recent massacre in Kenscoff, Haiti raises the question: Is it even possible to hold elections this year? With @andrepaultre. https://t.co/OX7xoZJzhN 440 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@FrancesRobles @Sandra_1B With long-standing dictatorships, you never know: they infiltrate their people into the opposition and the prisons, and later plant them in the exile community. 61 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

That former Venezuelan military office who turned to acting in telenovelas was deported. https://t.co/RjsLh3Mhti 707 views · 3 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The US is stepping up its deportations to Haiti, where more than 3,000 people were killed in the first six months of this year. https://t.co/lChHnKGq5C 432 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@FrancesRobles I'm blanking on the name, but wasn't there a prominent Afro-Cuban defector in the 1990's who did the exile circuit and ended up returning to Cuba 159 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

There's been a lot of coverage of Cuban former political prisoner Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara. Less has been noted of the %$&8storm of controversy that he confronted in Miami. Our profile: https://t.co/rL8L0SjAOd 2.5K views · 18 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Guidance for NGOs, political parties, Substack writers and public relations folks everywhere: please don't take the fact that I share my email address publicly to mean that I'd like to be on your listserve. I don't. I won't read it, and my inbox is out of control. Thanks 1.8K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Jan 2026 · Open on X →