Brian Beutler

@brianbeutler · Washington, DC · joined 23 Feb 2009

Off Message; cohost: https://t.co/CvwKx1K9rd; Formerly: @crookedmedia @newrepublic. BlueSky: @brianbeutler.bsky.social

161 790Followers

1 062Following

187 516Posts total

325.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views7 211this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %4.46%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.96%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	7 211	21 891	0.33×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.46%	6.81%	0.65×
Engagement rate	0.96%	1.14%	0.84×

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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

169.5K6 Nov

44.1K2 Sep

59.2K3 Sep

7.2K

34.4K

6.8K

3.2K

1.4K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.08%6 Nov

1.86%2 Sep

0.80%3 Sep

1.84%

0.65%

1.08%

0.47%

0.96%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes75.3%1 444 in total

Reposts16.5%317 in total

Replies5.6%107 in total

Quotes1.3%25 in total

Bookmarks1.3%24 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.

Latest posts

Apologies if I missed it, but did @GayleKing ever explain how this claim ended up in her rundown notes? Given what ex-CBS reporters have said about Weiss and other execs inserting false claims into scripts, seems transparency should be in order here. https://t.co/WtFj83ckUe 1.4K views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Correct. 3.2K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 The man using his vast fortune to bail out GOP candidates across the country says many white-skinned Jews don’t look super Jewy, and thus may not have Jew blood in them, freeing them to be white if they could just get over themselves. Some subtle antisemitic undertones there. 6.8K views · 48 likes · 19 reposts · 6 replies 03 Sep 2026 What is the GOP's top donor-savior media surrogate on about here? https://t.co/iizAHnJm60 34.4K views · 175 likes · 10 reposts · 34 replies 03 Sep 2026 I’m horribly throttled on here, ironically by the below-screengrabbed Republican surrogate. If anyone could get this thread in front of the people who decide when something is a disavowal-level controversy, I’d appreciate it. 7.2K views · 100 likes · 26 reposts · 7 replies 03 Sep 2026 Will Republicans risk a troubling antisemitic association by accepting campaign donations (direct or in kind) from this Twitter user? https://t.co/Qt8EJCTMkj 59.2K views · 341 likes · 101 reposts · 22 replies 03 Sep 2026 Trump and his allies like Bannon have been telegraphing their intention to undermine the midterms since at least January. People have generally responded to those concerns by pointing out that there are laws, a Constitution even, preventing them from doing this or that. But 44.1K views · 651 likes · 150 reposts · 14 replies 02 Sep 2026 My plan when the dust settles is to spend my time on other, more defensible platforms. Substack has social media tools, and makes it easy to support independent journalism. https://t.co/DJQVIO7GXZ Bluesky offers a similar interface to Twitter https://t.co/FHxJADHyN3 169.5K views · 104 likes · 8 reposts · 24 replies 06 Nov 2024