Jeff Stein ✓

@SpyTalker · Washington, DC · joined 02 Apr 2009

Longtime DC intel scribe--Newsweek, WaPo, CQ, UPI, magazines, books. Founding Editor, https://t.co/YO34WSHJrc. Podcast: https://t.co/D0oyIJgXc5

39 580Followers

8 621Following

62 734Posts total

17.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Jeff Stein ✓@SpyTalker5 Sep

If RFK Jr. had an ounce of integrity left, he would resign. Alas....#measles The behind-the-scenes effort to contain the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak https://t.co/CSGP89pMBn 1.1K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@SpyTalker3 Sep

Trump’s low attendance July 4th events wrecked the National Mall. Mile-long stretch of National Mall closed until 2027 for turf renovation https://t.co/FPBUAY1iCd 1K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@SpyTalker2 Sep

Hegseth’s creation of a secret influencers corps deserves far more attention. In the vicious attacks on @EvansRyan202, War on the Rocks & co. it reveals a nasty Gestapo-like underside. 2.6K views · 57 likes · 24 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@SpyTalker1 Sep

Tom Pauken, son of a formerly prominent Texas Republican and one time Army intelligence officer, got off easy. He eagerly spied for China. American Citizen who Worked as an Agent for the PRC Sentenced to Two Years in Prison https://t.co/H2mDsxyeU1 1.2K views · 12 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jeff Stein ✓@SpyTalker29 Aug

@SpyTalker Smart spies Vs Rogue intelligence officers lying, fooling, cheating, bullshitting, backstabbing, money lending, creating confusion, fooling politicians, accountable to none, writing false reports, eating money of fake informers, printing fake bills, pursuing personal v

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Jeff Stein ✓@SpyTalker18 Jun 2025

Why do we say SpyTalk is “Intelligence for Thinking People”?, by @SpyTalker https://t.co/yuwYUa5xUD 11.9K views · 24 likes · 4 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 090this account1 038median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.75%this account3.64%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.69%this account1.69%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 090	1 038	1.05×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.75%	3.64%	0.76×
Engagement rate	0.69%	1.69%	0.41×

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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

11.9K18 Jun

829 Aug

1.2K1 Sep

2.6K2 Sep

1K3 Sep

1.1K5 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.29%18 Jun

0.00%29 Aug

1.70%1 Sep

3.15%2 Sep

0.69%3 Sep

0.55%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.69%.

What the audience does

Likes62.3%104 in total

Reposts21.6%36 in total

Replies5.4%9 in total

Quotes0.6%1 in total

Bookmarks10.2%17 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.