Milan Vaishnav

@MilanV · Washington, DC · joined 30 Sep 2011

@CarnegieEndow Sr. Fellow + Director, @CarnegieSAsia. Host of #GrandTamasha podcast. Tweeting my views on political economy + India. RTs & likes ≠ endorsements

45 305Followers

1 201Following

50 045Posts total

9.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views352this account980median for 10K–100K

Reach, %0.78%this account3.27%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.66%this account2.01%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	352	980	0.36×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.78%	3.27%	0.24×
Engagement rate	1.66%	2.01%	0.83×

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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

1.8K2 Sep

5.1K4 Sep

1565 Sep

187

1.1K

4346 Sep

271

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.48%2 Sep

0.87%4 Sep

5.13%5 Sep

12.30%

7.35%

1.10%

1.84%6 Sep

0.37%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.01%.

What the audience does

Likes64.4%96 in total

Reposts12.8%19 in total

Replies6.7%10 in total

Quotes2.0%3 in total

Bookmarks14.1%21 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

.@ShekharGupta: "A lot of the vehicle-owning class, mostly the Hindu middle class, is a committed Modi-Shah BJP vote bank. They’re furious...Their gripe: How the hell can they force ethanol-blended petrol (EBP) down my throat?" https://t.co/YWaNyxbc4N 271 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Cranky @Roshanjnu is the best Roshan: "Our public discourse today works on what is best described by paraphrasing Keynes: in the short run, we are all trolls, even inadvertently, and in the long run, we are all dead." https://t.co/BpEkua50Ay 434 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

We kicked off our new season of #GrandTamasha this week with a conversation with economist @mahambare_vidya. We discussed the economic drivers of the Gen Z protests, the link between unemployment & education, and the manufacturing vs. services debate https://t.co/8ic5Tiyxoq h 1.1K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@MilanV @arvindsubraman Not Nuance, Nonsense! 68 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@MilanV @arvindsubraman It must go hard if you're a diasporoid sucking up to the Left 187 views · 22 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@MilanV @arvindsubraman Ideologically tainted nuance, sure. 156 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Nuanced take on the GDP brouhaha from @arvindsubraman & colleagues. 5.1K views · 29 likes · 6 reposts · 7 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

We kick off Season 16 of #GrandTamasha with a conversation w/ economist Vidya Mahambare (@mahambare_vidya) on the economic drivers of this summer's Gen Z protests. https://t.co/pwqQdBKewU https://t.co/5lZedJDEJL 1.8K views · 15 likes · 10 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →