Phil Gordon ✓

@PhilGordonDC · joined 14 Jan 2025

Sydney Stein, Jr., Scholar, Brookings. White House, NSC, and State Dept in Biden, Obama and Clinton admins. Author, Losing the Long Game.

10 217Followers

684Following

945Posts total

1.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views28 577this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %279.70%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.77%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	28 577	3 383	8.45×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.8× audience	10.96%	25.5×
Engagement rate	0.77%	1.40%	0.55×

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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

467.8K25 Aug

1.9K

28.6K28 Aug

136.4K

1.4K

11.3K

3.3K29 Aug

417.9K30 Aug

160.3K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.77%25 Aug

0.74%

0.97%28 Aug

0.35%

0.51%

0.79%

1.65%29 Aug

0.85%30 Aug

0.23%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes67.8%5 796 in total

Reposts22.7%1 936 in total

Replies5.3%451 in total

Quotes3.3%281 in total

Bookmarks0.9%81 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

It's not sustainable, and the reality is that even a change in Israeli government in October will not fundamentally alter the trend. Concerted action by the United States--along with Europeans and others--could. 160.3K views · 195 likes · 60 reposts · 89 replies 30 Aug 2026 Palestinians now control just eight per cent of the land in the West Bank. “92 per cent of the land for 50 per cent of the people—how is that sustainable?” a policy fellow who has been mapping Israeli settlements said. https://t.co/SRit8ZoZrB 417.9K views · 2.2K likes · 1K reposts · 223 replies 30 Aug 2026 As Russia escalates hybrid attacks on Europe, rains missiles down on civilians in Ukraine, and reportedly considers direct attacks on NATO territory (see latest alarms from Poland), extraordinary to ignore all that and focus only on goal of reducing US role. 3.3K views · 39 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies 29 Aug 2026 The clear and strong theme that came through is that NATO has decisively moved beyond *whether* to shift to a Europe-led defense of the Continent to focusing on *how* best to do so. This is enormous progress, thanks to the leadership of President Trump, Secretary General Rutte, 11.3K views · 56 likes · 20 reposts · 6 replies 28 Aug 2026 If true that would be a welcome development, but also an indictment of the administration's prior contention that Ukraine had no "cards." That was the flawed basis for cutting aid and trying to bully Kyiv to sue for peace, which led it to put pressure on the wrong side. 1.4K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 Declaring that NATO is no longer a priority and threatening to redeploy U.S. forces from Europe does not seem ideal way of reinforcing Ratcliffe's alleged warnings to Moscow only three days ago. https://t.co/M70jG5llTa 136.4K views · 349 likes · 93 reposts · 19 replies 28 Aug 2026 During his secretive trip to Moscow this week, CIA's Ratcliffe shared his bleak assessment of the state of Russia's war against Ukraine and urged the Russians to cut a deal before their military and economic situation gets worse. @Adamentous @julianbarnes https://t.co/MMlHZGHGCF 28.6K views · 201 likes · 60 reposts · 13 replies 28 Aug 2026 Numbers are even worse for Trump himself, in whom only 22% of South Koreans have confidence compared with 77% who do not (worse numbers than for Xi). South Korea had been rare case among Asian countries of enduring support for US but that is now collapsing. 1.9K views · 8 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 25 Aug 2026 "For the first time in over 20 years, a majority of South Koreans have an unfavorable opinion of the U.S." - Pew Research Center https://t.co/e61hD4eEGN 467.8K views · 2.7K likes · 640 reposts · 97 replies 25 Aug 2026