Anita Kumar

@anitakumar01 · Washington, D.C. · joined 19 Jun 2009

Head of Standards & Practices @POLITICO Ex-managing editor & White House correspondent Prior: @McClatchyDC @WashingtonPost @TB_Times @NewsandRecord @newsadvance

28 328Followers

3 199Following

32 888Posts total

19.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Anita Kumar@anitakumar0116 Aug

POLITICO launches in Australia. Read the first Canberra Playbook. https://t.co/VCGociexrf via @politicoryan @FinnianMchugh @miriamlwebber 1.2K views · 4 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Anita Kumar@anitakumar014 Aug

Key personnel move for NY Senate Dems https://t.co/sglASgfguP via @politico 822 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Anita Kumar@anitakumar0112 Jul

McConnell says he intends to return to the Senate — but not yet https://t.co/W1FhlDZ7m1 via @politico 529 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Anita Kumar@anitakumar019 Jul

Graham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign https://t.co/0kGrRGH8rW via @politico 463 views · 1 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Anita Kumar@anitakumar013 Jun

@anitakumar01 @politico Exact same thing happen to me, only I was going to get rich marrying Nigerian Prince or something. I don't remember it all, I blacked out. The point is, please be careful and assume everyone on line is either fake or unhinged lunatic. 451 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Anita Kumar@anitakumar013 Jun

@anitakumar01 @politico oh no, reporter doing sleazy slimy reporter things then reporting such horror, what should we every do about that? 436 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Anita Kumar@anitakumar012 Jun

‘I thought I had my future wife’: The Florida woman catfishing America’s political class https://t.co/nvG3TEKAJJ via @politico 15.3K views · 9 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views676this account1 033median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.38%this account3.60%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.56%this account1.69%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	676	1 033	0.65×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.38%	3.60%	0.66×
Engagement rate	0.56%	1.69%	0.33×

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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

15.3K2 Jun

4363 Jun

451

4639 Jul

52912 Jul

8224 Aug

1.2K16 Aug

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

0.10%2 Jun

0.23%3 Jun

0.00%

0.86%9 Jul

0.38%12 Jul

0.36%4 Aug

0.73%16 Aug

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

What the audience does

Likes35.6%16 in total

Reposts26.7%12 in total

Replies11.1%5 in total

Quotes2.2%1 in total

Bookmarks24.4%11 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.