Cole Bunzel

@colebunzel · Austin, TX · joined 13 Jan 2010

Asst Professor @ClementsCenter @UTAustin | Visiting Fellow @HooverInst | History of Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Islamism | Author of Wahhabism @PrincetonUPress

12 377Followers

959Following

5 419Posts total

205.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel12 Aug

Come work with us @ClementsCenter @UTAustin! 2.6K views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel12 Aug

Texas is the leader in national security education. Interested in joining our effort to revitalize the study of strategy & statecraft at UT-Austin? @ClementsCenter invites applications for faculty positions at all ranks and professional track. Apply here: https://t.co/hyXs96sSOQ 8.7K views · 25 likes · 10 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel4 Aug

"Beginning this fall, UT will welcome more than 20 new faculty members and national security leaders whose expertise spans history, strategy, diplomacy, intelligence, military affairs and international relations" Myself included https://t.co/cRXNA5B13q 10.7K views · 48 likes · 4 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel23 Jul

🤔 1.2K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel23 Jul

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump wants Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords before a proposed U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear energy deal moves forward, confirming the agreement is contingent on that condition. Saudi Arabia has not yet responded htt

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157.6K views · 301 likes · 60 reposts · 83 replies Open on X →

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel1 Jul

“The U.S. is now considering reducing its presence in Saudi Arabia and focusing its forces in countries that were more supportive during the war” Bad news for the US-Saudi relationship https://t.co/t2L5IT9y4r

1.2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel2 Dec 2025

@colebunzel It will fail longer term its a top dowm program that has significant youth support but most oppose it 74 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel2 Apr 2025

Also available here: https://t.co/OAfAmOnRXv 888 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Cole Bunzel@colebunzel2 Apr 2025

"Refounding the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia from Islamism and Wahhabism to ‘Moderate’ Islam" | New article by me on MBS's repudiation of the Sahwa & distancing the kingdom from the legacy of Wahhabism, including by forging an alternate historical narrative https://t.co/J5vBXgJFLt 22.8K views · 64 likes · 21 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views8 677this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %70.11%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.43%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	8 677	924	9.39×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	70.11%	3.62%	19.4×
Engagement rate	0.43%	1.52%	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

22.8K2 Apr

888

742 Dec

1.2K1 Jul

157.6K23 Jul

1.2K

10.7K4 Aug

8.7K12 Aug

2.6K

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

0.40%2 Apr

0.68%

0.00%2 Dec

0.60%1 Jul

0.29%23 Jul

0.25%

0.57%4 Aug

0.43%12 Aug

0.60%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes58.0%464 in total

Reposts12.2%98 in total

Replies12.0%96 in total

Quotes2.6%21 in total

Bookmarks15.1%121 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.