David D. Kirkpatrick ✓

@ddk_nyc · New York, NY · joined 17 Jan 2009

Journalist at The New Yorker. Ex-NYT. Author of “Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East.” daviddkirkpatrick@gmail.com

55 076Followers

2 749Following

21 048Posts total

11.3MViews on collected posts

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

5.6K3 Sep

6.6K31 Jan

18K9 Feb

297.5K30 Mar

11M15 May

2.7K16 May

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.16%3 Sep

0.86%31 Jan

0.90%9 Feb

0.66%30 Mar

2.15%15 May

0.45%16 May

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes76.7%184 332 in total

Reposts17.2%41 442 in total

Replies4.6%11 020 in total

Quotes0.7%1 787 in total

Bookmarks0.7%1 699 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

The mayor of New York is observing Nakba Day. 2.7K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies 16 May 2026 Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us 11M views · 182.6K likes · 41K reposts · 11K replies 15 May 2026 This ex-spy helped stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon. And this article was among the most intense that I have ever reported: https://t.co/CZVlv5INvK 297.5K views · 1.5K likes · 357 reposts · 29 replies 30 Mar 2026 After the WSJ's blockbuster scoop about the UAE's $187 million pre-inauguration payment to Trump, let me re-post this article I wrote for the NYT about the UAE, its ruler, and his influence in DC: https://t.co/S4JHTeY8c0 18K views · 109 likes · 49 reposts · 4 replies 09 Feb 2026 We updated The New Yorker's tally of Trump's presidential profits: https://t.co/ZbCAsfPYTG 6.6K views · 36 likes · 13 reposts · 5 replies 31 Jan 2026 Trying this again to find me on Bluesky: https://t.co/yrep5JOOYO 5.6K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2025

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