Meryl Kornfield

@MerylKornfield · here · joined 22 Aug 2011

Staff writer for @washingtonpost. Reach me at meryl.kornfield@washpost.com, DM or Signal. Forever proud of my @thealligator/@ufjschool roots 🐊

14 717Followers

6 512Following

25 592Posts total

50.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views738this account949median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.02%this account3.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.92%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	738	949	0.78×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.02%	3.23%	1.55×
Engagement rate	1.92%	2.00%	0.96×

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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

6.1K14 Jul

1.5K25 Aug

1.2K

8181 Sep

38.4K

537

2042 Sep

659

6194 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.29%14 Jul

2.72%25 Aug

1.69%

0.00%

1.59%1 Sep

2.14%

0.74%

2.45%2 Sep

2.28%

0.97%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes62.4%787 in total

Reposts28.1%355 in total

Replies1.6%20 in total

Quotes2.3%29 in total

Bookmarks5.6%71 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

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Former labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer once took her security detail to a strip club, handed one of them money from her purse and told him to drop the bills one at a time onto a partially nude woman. More details here: https://t.co/WDCAugGN8B 619 views · 1 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@MerylKornfield @dawso007 Unsurprising, unfortunately. 659 views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@MerylKornfield They want children to get pregnant. What can we conclude from this? 204 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@MerylKornfield @daveweigel So this would meet definition of "conspiracy to defraud US". Judge needs to start collecting Bar memberships and handing out contempt. 537 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

HHS cited nonexistent scientific evidence that may have been hallucinated by AI to support cutting federal teen pregnancy prevention grants https://t.co/1kMzd2vPTF 38.4K views · 504 likes · 282 reposts · 10 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

The amount of money the IRS collected from audits dropped dramatically last year after staffing cuts at the agency, per IG report. https://t.co/6iPEEsXm6M 818 views · 4 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@MerylKornfield A wonderful eulogy here Meryl. And you captured it beautifully especially in your first paragraph. It wasn’t her incredible voice, or her larger than life persona on the screen. Rather it was Dolly’s genuine warmth and generosity that defined her. 🙏 36 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Dolly in 2016 https://t.co/ZKrxD0Ddum https://t.co/rrDmpYnlhK 1.2K views · 17 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

https://t.co/lJpzVIZbqN https://t.co/HEb8TMFrsj 1.5K views · 29 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Oh you must mean when MAHA used AI to generate fake and invented references to support their ideology. It’s truly gold standard pseudoscience. https://t.co/XpGOpkNZrc 6.1K views · 211 likes · 43 reposts · 6 replies 14 Jul 2026 · Open on X →