Emily Badger

@emilymbadger · joined 16 Feb 2011

New York Times writer covering urban policy for @UpshotNYT. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal.

33 711Followers

1 758Following

6 928Posts total

11.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views726this account942median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.16%this account3.24%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.77%this account1.99%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	726	942	0.77×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.16%	3.24%	0.67×
Engagement rate	0.77%	1.99%	0.39×

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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

6.8K27 Jul

547

115

1.1K12 Aug

1.3K19 Aug

432

7814 Sep

672

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

0.82%27 Jul

0.73%

0.87%

1.26%12 Aug

0.60%19 Aug

0.46%

0.51%4 Sep

1.49%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.99%.

What the audience does

Likes52.9%54 in total

Reposts30.4%31 in total

Replies8.8%9 in total

Quotes4.9%5 in total

Bookmarks2.9%3 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

Satellite imagery shows the Trump administration has been constructing new border patrol roads in Big Bend National Park in Texas, where officials have claimed they're doing no such activity: https://t.co/2wBebxb7hL 672 views · 5 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

So much good stuff in this @bterris piece on the president's obsession with his ballroom: https://t.co/5i7C5xW2s3 https://t.co/Y0l69VO6Ej 781 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@ceciliakang https://t.co/8M5oKSUxXu 432 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

From @ceciliakang's story today explaining how Loudoun County has profited big from data centers: https://t.co/9lUVVsuTT2 1.3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 19 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The White House Executive Residence maintenance account normally has a few million dollars in it. The Trump administration has moved $875M in other taxpayer funds into it for the president's construction projects. Great @jocwapo @Blaskey_S story: https://t.co/PnOR71aaQi 1.1K views · 6 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies 12 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@emilymbadger Most of these would likely be in blue cities. They are squeezing them. 115 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

The program illustrates a subtler tactic in how the Trump administration is managing federal funds: not just terminating grants, as it did in droves last year, but quietly declining to give out new ones. https://t.co/cZmiMFc6yf 547 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

The Trump administration is sitting on more than $7 billion meant for big transit construction projects in communities around the country and has yet to sign a single grant for the program, Capital Investment Grants. https://t.co/wu4VIHd7LY 6.8K views · 29 likes · 20 reposts · 3 replies 27 Jul 2026 · Open on X →