Paul Sonne

@PaulSonne · Berlin · joined 17 Aug 2009

@nytimes correspondent focusing on Russia & Ukraine. Formerly @WashingtonPost @WSJ in Washington, Moscow, London. RT ≠ endorsement. Paul.Sonne@nytimes.com

49 338Followers

4 507Following

257Posts total

36.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

1 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views5 799this account2 968median for 10K–100K

Reach, %11.75%this account9.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.38%this account1.42%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 799	2 968	1.95×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	11.75%	9.18%	1.28×
Engagement rate	0.38%	1.42%	0.27×

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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

98219 Dec

1.3K31 Dec

3.9K

24.4K9 Feb

5.8K2 Jul

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.10%19 Dec

0.38%31 Dec

0.70%

0.67%9 Feb

0.38%2 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes55.6%133 in total

Reposts30.5%73 in total

Replies4.6%11 in total

Quotes0.4%1 in total

Bookmarks8.8%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

Join our China team! https://t.co/8MoPU5tUSO 5.8K views · 14 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies 02 Jul 2026 Job Alert: Come join us on @nytimes's award-winning Russia team. https://t.co/fJqJyqKUe4 24.4K views · 100 likes · 57 reposts · 6 replies 09 Feb 2026 IN THEIR OWN VOICES. Russian soldiers and their loved ones on abuse within the Russian military: "They were handcuffed undressed to a tree in January and held for several hours, some of them until the morning." https://t.co/3IprbSuLKQ 3.9K views · 17 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 31 Dec 2025 The New York Times reviewed thousands of confidential complaints that Russian soldiers and their loved ones submitted to Russia's human rights commissioner. What we found is a pattern of Moscow abusing its own troops to keep up the attack in Ukraine. 1/7 https://t.co/3IprbSuLKQ 1.3K views · 1 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 31 Dec 2025 Putin warns if the Europeans are willing to steal Russian frozen assets now over the war, next they could seize the sovereign assets of Muslim oil-producing countries over their anti-LGBT policies. 982 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 19 Dec 2025