John Blaxland ✓

@JohnBlaxland1 · Washington DC / Canberra ACT · joined 26 Apr 2012

Director @ANUNorthAmerica, Prof. Intl. Sec. & Intel Studs, @ANU_SDSC @ANUBellSchool https://t.co/yjbvOX5NAO

21 077Followers

6 417Following

26 912Posts total

12.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland18 Sep

Sovereignty is not maximized by fewer partnerships; it is maximized by the capacity to act, and for a country of Australia's size and geography, that capacity has never been generated in isolation. 1.6K views · 21 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland16 Sep

As we hit the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I reflect on my personal full circle - having been in DC as an integrated @AustralianArmy exchange officer at the @DIA_76_ERA back then, and back in DC nowadays, working for The Australian National University at the Australian Embassy https

2K views · 31 likes · 13 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland15 Sep

"AUKUS: abandon case not made out" Thanks for the post,Australian Naval Institute https://t.co/1YrCTafQ68 2.5K views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland14 Sep

I'm grateful and chuffed that my arguments on "Undersea Power" resonates with Robbin Laird at @sldinfo 962 views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland13 Sep

"Undersea Power, Not Submarine Politics: What John Blaxland Gets Right About Australia’s Deepest Strategic Problem" 09/03/2026 Thanks, @rflsldinfo , for your take on my submission https://t.co/MCm8xBFplJ 1.5K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland112 Feb

@JohnBlaxland1 So was Herodotus - about the existence of Palestine 19 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland18 Feb

@JohnBlaxland1 Thucydides was right. US against lran. Security dilema. Fragile Regime theory. Iran a paper tiger?https://t.co/ggpSJ5OzBz 67 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland17 Feb

@JohnBlaxland1 Needed your old John Curtin style round glasses? 139 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Blaxland ✓@JohnBlaxland17 Feb

I had some fun with this https://t.co/wDjUzkYIUH

3.4K views · 31 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 622this account1 070median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.70%this account3.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.83%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 622	1 070	1.52×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.70%	3.77%	2.04×
Engagement rate	0.83%	1.65%	0.51×

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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

3.4K7 Feb

139

678 Feb

1912 Feb

1.5K3 Sep

9624 Sep

2.5K5 Sep

2K6 Sep

1.6K8 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

1.06%7 Feb

0.72%

4.48%8 Feb

0.00%12 Feb

0.33%3 Sep

0.83%4 Sep

0.45%5 Sep

2.43%6 Sep

1.73%8 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes67.9%106 in total

Reposts16.0%25 in total

Replies6.4%10 in total

Bookmarks9.6%15 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.