Richard Hanania ✓

@RichardHanania · United States · joined 15 Sep 2018

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225 154Followers

707Following

87 801Posts total

93.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views12 747this account22 159median for 100K–1M

Reach, %5.66%this account6.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.77%this account1.18%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	12 747	22 159	0.58×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.66%	6.71%	0.84×
Engagement rate	1.77%	1.18%	1.51×

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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

46.5K1 Sep

4.2K2 Sep

20.2K

12.7K

9.5K3 Sep

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

0.52%1 Sep

1.15%2 Sep

2.45%

1.77%

6.63%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.18%.

What the audience does

Likes77.8%1 430 in total

Reposts3.9%71 in total

Replies6.5%119 in total

Quotes1.2%22 in total

Bookmarks10.7%196 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

Nature is still defending Arday! Academia is in really bad shape. https://t.co/E3NuyOwn9x 9.5K views · 594 likes · 28 reposts · 7 replies 03 Sep 2026 Miss Grand Vietnam. This is what Ho Chin Minh fought for. https://t.co/68o18pX5kW 12.7K views · 203 likes · 6 reposts · 16 replies 02 Sep 2026 America is a land of interracial love and harmony. Don’t let the racists convince you otherwise. Nobody is more American than anyone else. https://t.co/GtXUMZ428s 20.2K views · 451 likes · 13 reposts · 28 replies 02 Sep 2026 "It’s probably not a coincidence that race and IQ is the ultimate taboo in our society, that it is a taboo everywhere else, and the people who have been enthusiastic about discussing it have generally been those we mostly agree are awful." https://t.co/FPKobSoobw 4.2K views · 35 likes · 1 reposts · 12 replies 02 Sep 2026 The UFO discourse drives me crazy. The idea of aliens has gone mainstream like never before. People are convinced that things have been hidden from us, and there's good reason to think we've been visited by aliens. Don't buy any of it. Our ability to monitor the sky, from camera 46.5K views · 147 likes · 23 reposts · 56 replies 01 Sep 2026