Matthew Watkins ✓

@MWatkinsTrib

Editor-in-chief at @texastribune. Aggie. Winner of the 2011 Texas Christmas Tree Growers Award for business writing. Ask me about my kids.

6 685Followers

1 110Following

10 996Posts total

693.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Matthew Watkins ✓@MWatkinsTrib14 Sep

@MWatkinsTrib @carlosnogueras_ @Jon_RosenthalTX @bofrench I'd say "Beautiful Losers" but honestly, with Rove, it's just "Losers." 3.8K views · 439 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Matthew Watkins ✓@MWatkinsTrib14 Sep

@MWatkinsTrib @carlosnogueras_ @Jon_RosenthalTX @bofrench Karl Rove is coming out in favor of transgender child castration, in order to protect Indian and Mexican illegal mass migration into Texas. This is who the Republican party was, before Trump purged Jeb Bush and the Chamber

6.5K views · 554 likes · 51 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Matthew Watkins ✓@MWatkinsTrib14 Sep

@MWatkinsTrib @carlosnogueras_ @Jon_RosenthalTX @bofrench This is Bo French’s opponent. You can’t dislike Karl Rove enough. https://t.co/CWJYr7WG8X

3.9K views · 358 likes · 32 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Matthew Watkins ✓@MWatkinsTrib14 Sep

.@carlosnogueras_ scoops: Karl Rove said at a private luncheon today that, after Bo French's post yesterday, he'd be voting for Democrat for the first time in more than 30 years. He'll back @Jon_RosenthalTX over "bigot" @bofrench, he told crowd. https://t.co/gkcfIirpcF 590.4K views · 4.5K likes · 920 reposts · 561 replies Open on X →

Matthew Watkins ✓@MWatkinsTrib27 Jun 2024

@MWatkinsTrib @TexasTribune Congrats! 57 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Matthew Watkins ✓@MWatkinsTrib27 Jun 2024

I'm immensely grateful to @sewellchan, who is the next executive editor of @CJR, for his friendship and support. And to @SonalRShah for her confidence. And to Trib OGs @eramshaw, @evanasmith and Ross Ramsey (who appears to have left X??) for bringing me here 9 1/2 years ago. 11.2K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Matthew Watkins ✓@MWatkinsTrib27 Jun 2024

News about me: Starting Sept. 9, I'll be come editor-in-chief of @TexasTribune. It's a dream and an honor to lead this amazing newsroom and I can't wait to get to work. https://t.co/MTO1xEJUAq 77.4K views · 471 likes · 55 reposts · 62 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views5 188this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %77.60%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %9.97%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 188	4 175	1.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	77.60%	2.5× audience	0.31×
Engagement rate	9.97%	1.41%	7.08×

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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

77.4K27 Jun

11.2K

590.4K14 Sep

3.9K

6.5K

3.8K

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

0.79%27 Jun

0.26%

3.51%

1.05%14 Sep

10.35%

9.59%

11.83%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes73.0%6 330 in total

Reposts12.3%1 069 in total

Replies7.5%653 in total

Quotes2.9%248 in total

Bookmarks4.3%374 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

18 Sep

Daily snapshots since 18 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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