Sadanand Dhume ✓

@dhume · Washington, DC · joined 16 Jun 2009

CFR Senior Fellow, WSJ Columnist. Author of My Friend the Fanatic and Tinderbox.

172 896Followers

2 198Following

66 461Posts total

1.5MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views74 714this account22 159median for 100K–1M

Reach, %43.21%this account6.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.36%this account1.18%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	74 714	22 159	3.37×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	43.21%	6.71%	6.44×
Engagement rate	0.36%	1.18%	0.31×

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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

274.3K26 Aug

51.7K

160K27 Aug

38K28 Aug

74.7K

872.6K31 Aug

4.4K

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

0.38%26 Aug

0.36%

0.89%27 Aug

0.25%28 Aug

0.20%

1.28%31 Aug

0.23%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.18%.

What the audience does

Likes76.7%10 986 in total

Reposts9.0%1 296 in total

Replies10.4%1 490 in total

Quotes1.9%272 in total

Bookmarks2.0%283 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

@RichardHanania: “It’s not news that stupid people are stupid. But one feature of populist movements is that the attitudes, beliefs, and aesthetics of more excitable and less thoughtful members of the public end up in control.” [On the failure of the tech right.] 4.4K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 It’s finally goodbye to NDTV. I spent 23 years with the NDTV I knew, and somehow the last three with the “new” NDTV. But there comes a moment when you realise that a chapter has simply run its course. No grand conclusions. Just the quiet relief of knowing it is time to move on. 872.6K views · 8.9K likes · 848 reposts · 1.2K replies 31 Aug 2026 Fine to make this point, @ConstantinoX. But India’s image problem is not confined to America. In 2011, 71% of Australians had a favorable view of India. It’s now down to 44%. A lot of folks have responded to my piece with some version of “we don’t care” or “public opinion 74.7K views · 68 likes · 13 reposts · 49 replies 28 Aug 2026 Much discussion about this piece by @dhume, whose writings always provoke thought. Worth considering an alternative: America has a global perspective problem. 38K views · 82 likes · 4 reposts · 7 replies 28 Aug 2026 Mounds of rotting garbage, trains overflowing with commuters, half-drowned school buses on flooded roads. The age of social media has been brutal for India’s global image. [My take] https://t.co/kLeYWD6xGy https://t.co/q8hvlJlM61 160K views · 1K likes · 264 reposts · 41 replies 27 Aug 2026 Vivek @wadhwa is a well known voice in Silicon Valley. Worth paying attention to his views on how years of unscrupulous gaming of the H-1B program contributed to a wider backlash against Indian immigrants in America. 51.7K views · 151 likes · 11 reposts · 24 replies 26 Aug 2026 H-1B’s death should cheer Indians and Americans. This is about an article I wrote telling India why it should support America terminating the H-1B visa program: H-1B was created to fill genuine shortages of highly skilled workers. It was supposed to allow American companies to 274.3K views · 727 likes · 154 reposts · 119 replies 26 Aug 2026