Lamar Alexander ✓

@SenAlexander · Maryville, TN · joined 23 Sep 2009

THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR is available now. Updates from former United States Senator Lamar Alexander. 7th generation Tennessean born and raised in Maryville.

115 655Followers

524Following

8 803Posts total

6.7KViews on collected posts

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Lamar Alexander ✓@SenAlexander11 Sep

On Tuesday morning, September 11, I was teaching at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School in Cambridge. As the fall semester was getting underway, I watched in horror as the television showed the second terrorist plane crashing into the Twin Towers. In Chapter 34 of my new memoir, ht

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Lamar Alexander ✓@SenAlexander10 Sep

Reagan’s experienced “team of rivals” helped to save his presidency. In 1987, when Reagan fell into trouble over the Iran-Contra scandal, he telephoned Howard Baker, who was in Miami on a family vacation. Joy Baker answered the president’s call. “Where’s Howard?” Reagan asked. ht

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Lamar Alexander ✓@SenAlexander9 Sep

“If you want to feel like the butler, try being vice president,” Joe Biden told me in 2012. I began working in the Nixon White House in 1969 at a desk in Bryce Harlow’s West Wing office fifty feet from the Oval Office. After six months, Harlow carved space from his secretary’s ht

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Lamar Alexander ✓@SenAlexander8 Sep

“On Wednesday, January 17, 1979, Democrat leaders swore me, a Republican, into office three days early to stop Gov. Ray Blanton from pardoning prisoners who had paid cash for their release. As I talk to reporters after taking the oath, Honey holds the family Bible while Leslee, h

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Lamar Alexander ✓@SenAlexander4 Sep

“Obviously you’ve never been a university president, or you wouldn’t ask a stupid question like that," is my answer when someone asks, “What was your hardest job? Senator, Governor, Education Secretary, or university president?” I told that to the current University of Tennessee

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Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 278this account5 713median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.11%this account1.50%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.59%this account0.97%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	1 278	5 713	0.22×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.11%	1.50%	0.74×
Engagement rate	0.59%	0.97%	0.61×

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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

1.8K4 Sep

1.3K8 Sep

2K9 Sep

92510 Sep

67511 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

0.11%4 Sep

0.39%8 Sep

0.59%9 Sep

0.65%10 Sep

1.78%11 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.97%.

What the audience does

Likes92.1%35 in total

Reposts5.3%2 in total

Bookmarks2.6%1 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.