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David Ignatius

@IgnatiusPost · Washington DC · joined 28 Nov 2011

I am a columnist for the Washington Post, a former Harvard Kennedy School fellow and author of twelve espionage thrillers.

126 014Followers
1 752Following
2 804Posts total
216.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Bravo to all three AI leaders for saying: Slow down. https://t.co/sWeYIteTW6 4.1K views · 39 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
I'm very pleased to join the selection committee for Aurora Prize, a humanitarian award that embodies its motto, "gratitude in action." The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative announced today that David Ignatius, an award-winning foreign affairs columnist for The 4K views · 40 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Jim Woolsey, a complicated, curious and creative person and always a generous friend. 71.5K views · 104 likes · 16 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →
Playing from 01:02 https://t.co/NKkhD2uWDs 4.4K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →
@IgnatiusPost “Dirty war” huh? You fuck It’s called survival. Dirty war is castrating prisoners or war and using rape of men and women as a tool of war, which Russia does gleefully. Ass 205 views · 28 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@IgnatiusPost .@IgnatiusPost Just royally FUCK YOU for calling 🇺🇦 defending itself ‘dirty war’! Just FUCK YOU ruSSia started this genocidal war and 🇺🇦 targets the archers that kill 🇺🇦 citizens! ruSSia targets civilians, every FUCKING day! Idiot! Fucking MORON 230 views · 43 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@IgnatiusPost Fuck you. Russian agent. 100 views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
David Ignatius calls innovative precision strikes on the Russian military "Ukraine's dirty war." https://t.co/btAA7cTC2B
26.9K views · 256 likes · 37 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →
Over the moon (so to speak) that "Publishers Weekly" has just given my new novel "Phantom Orbit" about space warfare a starred review and called it "contemporary cloak-and-dagger intrigue at its finest." https://t.co/PdVAiKtEEW 104.8K views · 227 likes · 35 reposts · 139 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 223this account5 986median for 100K–1M
Reach, %3.35%this account1.60%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.75%this account1.06%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post4 2235 9860.71×
Reach (views ÷ followers)3.35%1.60%2.09×
Engagement rate0.75%1.06%0.71×

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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

104.8K2 Apr
26.9K6 Jun
100
230
205
4.4K4 Jul
71.5K26 Jul
4K17 Aug
4.1K13 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.38%2 Apr
1.15%6 Jun
19.00%
20.00%
14.15%
0.34%4 Jul
0.18%26 Jul
1.16%17 Aug
1.18%13 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.06%.

What the audience does

Likes69.3%761 in total
Reposts9.4%103 in total
Replies16.0%176 in total
Bookmarks5.3%58 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.

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