Michael McFaul ✓

@McFaul

Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.

887 276Followers

2 525Following

142 759Posts total

31.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views122this account12 273median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.01%this account3.89%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %5.10%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	122	12 273	0.01×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.01%	3.89%	0.00×
Engagement rate	5.10%	1.25%	4.08×

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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

31.5K3 Sep

113

130

101

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.82%3 Sep

4.42%

5.38%

5.94%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes67.4%1 058 in total

Reposts21.0%330 in total

Replies7.3%114 in total

Quotes2.0%32 in total

Bookmarks2.2%35 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.

Latest posts

@McFaul We are not "Imperialist", so what do you call holding Puerto Rico hostage as a colony since 1898? 101 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @McFaul It'll take years for Venezuela to produce any oil in this deal, and another 5 or more to create the infrastructure to process the oily glue. Trump will be gone, and hopefully buried before we see this happening in real time. What's in it for Trump is what we should be 130 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @McFaul Michael: It was always about Trump gaining control over Venezuela's oil. In January 2019, the U.S. cut off the regime's primary source of foreign currency by halting oil exports to the United States. That didn't do it. So they took it over. Next up: Greenland, who also 113 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 This is called imperialism. We are profiting from the use of force in another country. American are not imperialists. We fought against empire to obtain our independence. The US should support a democratic transition in Venezuela first, and oil deals with the 31.5K views · 1K likes · 330 reposts · 112 replies 03 Sep 2026