Tom Nichols ✓

@RadioFreeTom · Newport, RI · joined 10 Jan 2012

Staff writer at @TheAtlantic. Cat pics and bad music takes are at Bluesky. Speaker info: https://t.co/qSETcC0Rt2

677 205Followers

1 616Following

16 318Posts total

564.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views6 623this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.98%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %2.80%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	6 623	21 891	0.30×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.98%	6.81%	0.14×
Engagement rate	2.80%	1.14%	2.45×

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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

79.9K1 Sep

447.8K2 Sep

20.5K3 Sep

5.6K

7.6K

1.3K

1.5K

472

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

5.41%1 Sep

9.63%2 Sep

8.34%3 Sep

1.56%

4.04%

0.08%

0.97%

1.48%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes89.2%44 408 in total

Reposts9.4%4 676 in total

Replies0.8%374 in total

Quotes0.2%122 in total

Bookmarks0.4%186 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

https://t.co/VdKNJ6eua9 472 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Sir, this is a Wendy's 1.5K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @RadioFreeTom The EMPIRE was greedy and all about being a CONSUMER. You are a writer that supports that. You are not a builder you are a money protector. Good luck with that you are gonna need it https://t.co/omMscpmQaJ 1.3K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 You know, at war colleges they explain why the Spartans won against Athens and then were crushed and overthrown and then vanished from world history but that's just boring history about navies and armies and whatnot 7.6K views · 252 likes · 45 reposts · 10 replies 03 Sep 2026 https://t.co/6r9WeKpVFc 5.6K views · 71 likes · 7 reposts · 10 replies 03 Sep 2026 America is the last hope for Western Civilization. It is all that stands in the way of 1,000 years of darkness. Understand how precious she is. And how she must be preserved. There is no retreat from this place. Victory or death. 20.5K views · 1.4K likes · 200 reposts · 118 replies 03 Sep 2026 Pete Hegseth: We need our military to be more like the Spartans! *immediately loses fight with Persia over an important chokepoint* 447.8K views · 39.5K likes · 3.4K reposts · 124 replies 02 Sep 2026 "Hegseth has banished another enemy, Driscoll, from the Pentagon. But as the saying goes: play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Hegseth, more than ever, now owns every aspect of the Pentagon’s dysfunction." https://t.co/xGlcD3mUNi 79.9K views · 3.2K likes · 1K reposts · 112 replies 01 Sep 2026