Alex Burns ✓

@alexanderburns · Washington · joined 04 Oct 2009

@POLITICO Senior Executive Editor, North America

191 637Followers

3 987Following

1 665Posts total

236.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns20 Sep

Such a rich, deep narrative on the most urgent policy issue facing the US govt: "each side came to recognize its fearsome adversary — a government with a maximalist approach to exercising any authority it could claim, and a company on which the U.S. economy had come to rely" 8.8K views · 13 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns20 Sep

Over the course of 85 days this spring and summer, the course of AI policy under Trump was completed altered. We set out to understand the thinking behind those events, beginning with the arrival of Anthropic’s Mythos, through the June executive order and subsequent export http

24.7K views · 58 likes · 26 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns19 Sep

"As we said yesterday, we will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights" 26.3K views · 120 likes · 48 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns19 Sep

Playbook says Politico reporter Cheyenne Haslett has been denied entry to the White House: https://t.co/esVhbPcqjA

38.2K views · 42 likes · 29 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns17 Sep

@alexanderburns https://t.co/GKifREOIEj 8 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns17 Sep

Celebrities are criticizing Democrats for their promotion of gender transition https://t.co/FbiN80zpQB

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61.2K views · 100 likes · 67 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns6 Aug

You have to read this story 40K views · 37 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns19 Jul

POLITICO's Playbook drives the news with the sharpest, most essential reporting on the power dynamics of Washington + national politics. Our commitment is to give you the most valuable, urgent, nonpartisan reporting on politics + power. I can't imagine a better team to do it. h

15.5K views · 33 likes · 14 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Alex Burns ✓@alexanderburns22 Jun

The newly relaunched @POLITICOMag is just so, so good – smart, absorbing, completely authoritative reporting on power across all of POLITICO's geographies Congratulations to @tcberenson @sissenberg and the whole great team inventing the magazine's future https://t.co/zHPewTeMnA

22.2K views · 91 likes · 22 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views25 491this account6 360median for 100K–1M

Reach, %13.30%this account1.64%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.27%this account0.97%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	25 491	6 360	4.01×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.30%	1.64%	8.11×
Engagement rate	0.27%	0.97%	0.28×

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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

22.2K22 Jun

15.5K19 Jul

40K6 Aug

61.2K17 Sep

38.2K19 Sep

26.3K

24.7K20 Sep

8.8K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.55%22 Jun

0.32%19 Jul

0.12%6 Aug

0.28%17 Sep

0.00%

0.20%19 Sep

0.66%

0.38%20 Sep

0.26%

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

What the audience does

Likes55.3%494 in total

Reposts25.1%224 in total

Replies3.1%28 in total

Quotes1.2%11 in total

Bookmarks15.2%136 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.