John Culver

@JohnCulver689 · Washington, DC · joined 28 Oct 2012

Fmr National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Views solely my own. Like/retweets are not an endorsement.

14 255Followers

472Following

6 111Posts total

118.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

John Culver@JohnCulver68924 Aug

Notice nobody's talking about the Epstein files anymore. 2.1K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Culver@JohnCulver68921 Aug

The Ford deployment included nine port calls across Europe and the Mediterranean and regular resupply from navy support bases. Iran's destruction of the Bahrain suppor base meant the closest resupply point for Lincoln is Diego Garcia. Lincoln had no port calls. 1/2 8.8K views · 39 likes · 7 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

John Culver@JohnCulver68921 Aug

US sailors are well aware of the sacrifices they are asked to make and I salute them. The longest post-Vietnam and modern deployment belongs to the USS Gerald R. Ford, which spent 326 days at sea from June 2025 to May 2026. 11.2K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Culver@JohnCulver68918 Aug

@MarkCMontgomery great comments and insights on PBS News Hour right now. 562 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Culver@JohnCulver68918 Aug

This is a nothing burger. Xi Jinping has attended the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in person only once, traveling to New York in September 2015 for the 70th anniversary of the UN. The Premier usually represents China at the UNGA. 6.2K views · 31 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Culver@JohnCulver68917 Aug

If I think this is crazy and dangerous, is that TDS? Or is Trump's derangment the real TDS? The crisis on USS Lincoln forced the deployment of USS George Washington, leaving the Western Pacific without a carrier headed into 2027, a year predicted by many at DOD to be a war risk. 3K views · 17 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

John Culver@JohnCulver68917 Aug

Yes this is nuts, but frankly, I don’t understand how anyone could be surprised at this point. Trump clearly wants a new round of summitry with North Korea’s Kim and has labeled annual US-South Korea military drills “war games” in the past, parroting the regime. It’s just sad. ht

86.1K views · 225 likes · 37 reposts · 27 replies Open on X →

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 views6 244this account1 021median for 10K–100K

Reach, %43.80%this account4.02%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.47%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 244	1 021	6.12×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	43.80%	4.02%	10.9×
Engagement rate	0.47%	1.55%	0.30×

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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

86.1K17 Aug

6.2K18 Aug

562

11.2K21 Aug

8.8K

2.1K24 Aug

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

0.34%17 Aug

0.70%

0.61%18 Aug

0.36%

0.06%21 Aug

0.57%

0.47%24 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes76.0%330 in total

Reposts12.4%54 in total

Replies7.6%33 in total

Bookmarks3.9%17 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.