West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) ✓

@WestWingReport · Washington · joined 05 Feb 2009

Journalist/Author/Historian - reporting from the White House press room since 2008. Bio below. Subscribe to my newsletter on Disinformation - also below

312 153Followers

1 430Following

135 779Posts total

80.3KViews on collected posts

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West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) ✓@WestWingReport11 Sep

Rather than tell "where I was" 25 years ago, I'd rather ask: ...If those who perished, those who came together to help strangers regardless of who they were, would approve of the way Americans now seem to be at each other's throats. I'll bet they'd think we can all do better 4.1K views · 20 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) ✓@WestWingReport11 Sep

The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - the sixth-worst day in American history by my count - sparked a tidal wave of disinformation and related rubbish. Allow me to debunk the most common claims. https://t.co/Wl2MLXz7zq https://t.co/YjXITzEOuX

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West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) ✓@WestWingReport10 Sep

Wholesale inflation has jumped to 5.4% (annualized) - was 4.8% in August (annualized) 4.6K views · 5 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) ✓@WestWingReport10 Sep

Uncle Sam's not the only one living beyond his means https://t.co/nlWa4khdPZ

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West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) ✓@WestWingReport8 Jul 2025

@WestWingReport Hello Corgi, do you know where the Disinformation podcast went? 65 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) ✓@WestWingReport2 May 2023

@WestWingReport In the middle of your new book and loving it! 52 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) ✓@WestWingReport16 Dec 2022

Bio: 5-time author, speaker 7 presidential libraries. Dow Jones / MarketWatch columnist. Worked in Moscow for 5 years, New York 11. Also London & L.A. Network TV, Capitol Hill, White House. Been to 67 countries but only 43 states. Longtime venture capital investor. Meet my Corgi:

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Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views3 556this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.14%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.44%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 556	5 983	0.59×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.14%	1.49%	0.76×
Engagement rate	0.44%	0.93%	0.48×

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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

66K16 Dec

522 May

658 Jul

3K10 Sep

4.6K

2.4K11 Sep

4.1K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.25%16 Dec

1.92%2 May

1.54%8 Jul

0.70%10 Sep

0.17%

0.21%11 Sep

0.68%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes75.4%181 in total

Reposts11.2%27 in total

Replies9.6%23 in total

Bookmarks3.8%9 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.