David Aldridge ✓

@davidaldridgedc · Washington, D.C. · joined 03 Aug 2009

I write & talk. Occasionally interview Presidents. @TheAthletic columnist. @AUEagles fan. 2016 Naismith HOF. 2016 Sam Lacy Award. Threads/IG: davidaldridgedc

615 569Followers

4 161Following

35 361Posts total

689.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views49 402this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %8.03%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.30%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	49 402	21 891	2.26×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.03%	6.81%	1.18×
Engagement rate	0.30%	1.14%	0.26×

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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

370.2K17 Nov

73K1 Sep

43.7K

94.5K

53.1K2 Sep

45.7K

8.9K3 Sep

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

0.26%17 Nov

0.21%1 Sep

0.32%

0.19%

0.28%2 Sep

1.43%

0.56%3 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes66.6%1 686 in total

Reposts17.1%433 in total

Replies4.9%123 in total

Quotes2.1%53 in total

Bookmarks9.3%236 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

Much of the NBA waited to see what Adam Silver would do if a probe into alleged cap circumvention by the Clippers bore fruit. A white-shoe law firm, on Wednesday, said the team broke the rules. Silver acted, decisively. Free to read, in @TheAthletic: https://t.co/UZsQXBL0Gj 8.9K views · 40 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Nothing much stuns me any more. I am stunned. Like Goldberg getting tased by Scott Hall at Starrcade in '98 stunned: https://t.co/iR4qAhxE0t 45.7K views · 558 likes · 53 reposts · 35 replies 02 Sep 2026 This is a really well-written piece on what I and others were feeling during the whole Jaylen Brown discourse. The narrative about on-off became the whole, or at least dominant, discussion point on his worth. Few said "hey, maybe they just don't want to pay him another $170M." 53.1K views · 128 likes · 9 reposts · 12 replies 02 Sep 2026 How a revolution became a heuristic, a heuristic became a slogan, and a slogan became a place to hide. https://t.co/6Xlhj0bcrx 94.5K views · 135 likes · 19 reposts · 14 replies 01 Sep 2026 There were discussions during the negotiations between the Commanders and the city last year about a potential "in-fill" station at Oklahoma Avenue that would ease the burden on the single Metro stop, Stadium-Armory, near RFK. That made a lot of sense to me. Still does. 43.7K views · 106 likes · 19 reposts · 13 replies 01 Sep 2026 There's no plans for a second Metro station to be built near the new Commanders stadium in D.C.; Metro officials say it's to expensive. But some city leaders say that's a shortsighted decision that should be revisited by @Janeese4DC. By @zaraleinorman: https://t.co/PZ8chIu1dB htt 73K views · 94 likes · 31 reposts · 14 replies 01 Sep 2026 So this is now, officially, real. It is a labor of love for hoops, edited w/ @johnhollinger. The great @ShotDrJr did the thing, combing through each of the 100 essays from our incredible NBA staff at @TheAthletic. Pre-orders available now; drops 11/26. Humbly, it's a good read. h 370.2K views · 625 likes · 295 reposts · 34 replies 17 Nov 2024