Richard W. Painter ✓

@RWPUSA · Minnesota, USA · joined 06 Nov 2014

Law Professor. Former chief White House ethics lawyer 2005-07. Independent. @RWPMinnesota

642 436Followers

672Following

56 938Posts total

100.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views5 702this account8 935median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.89%this account3.24%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.80%this account1.32%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	5 702	8 935	0.64×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.89%	3.24%	0.27×
Engagement rate	0.80%	1.32%	0.60×

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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

63.1K11 Nov

3.8K

26612 Nov

6.9K2 Sep

4.5K

8.1K

11.7K3 Sep

1.9K

119

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

0.74%11 Nov

2.07%

3.76%12 Nov

0.97%2 Sep

0.63%

1.53%

0.46%3 Sep

0.26%

1.68%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.32%.

What the audience does

Likes52.1%452 in total

Reposts37.9%329 in total

Replies5.9%51 in total

Quotes0.6%5 in total

Bookmarks3.6%31 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

@RWPUSA And nobody pursued a red flag notification that they all insisted would stop this sort of thing? 119 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Where were the famed Minneapolis "violence interrupters"? 1.9K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 This nut job should have been out of the building and probably in jail months ago. "On June 11, he "walked around the premises with a firearm openly displayed", entered the management office and openly displayed the firearm" to multiple management personnel. He also made 11.7K views · 41 likes · 10 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 “So my argument is a pretty simple one — that 16 is now what 18 was 50 years ago.” @BardCollege president Leon Botstein on the age of sexual maturity. Disgusting. No wonder Congress is investigating. https://t.co/eBHgb5JXxM 8.1K views · 88 likes · 30 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 A fully paid one year sabbatical. That's not a bad deal for the former guy of @BardCollege. But first, @RepRaskin is waiting for answers to his questions last June about Jeffrey Epstein and alleged sex trafficking through Bard programs in Russia. https://t.co/ijenMuzeLb via 4.5K views · 17 likes · 10 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 This interview with @BardCollege's acting president about the U.S. House investigation is misleading. Reports from Bard are that its former president Leon Botstein, forced out over Jeffrey Epstein ties, is still living in the president's house and trying to run the place. 6.9K views · 43 likes · 18 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 @RWPUSA @CambridgeUP Zero accountability Trump is an embarrassment 266 views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 12 Nov 2025 Summary: Lots of presidential power, not much responsible use of power, and almost no accountability. 3.8K views · 56 likes · 21 reposts · 2 replies 11 Nov 2025 Now available from @CambridgeUP My new book coauthored with E. Thomas Sullivan, The U.S. Presidency: Power, Responsibility and Accountability https://t.co/iKJuAGDTjM 63.1K views · 194 likes · 238 reposts · 35 replies 11 Nov 2025