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Fred Kaplan

@fmkaplan · joined 22 Jul 2009

Slate's War Stories columnist; jazz critic; author of A Capital Calamity (a novel), The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, The Wizards of Armageddon

15 184Followers
732Following
16 056Posts total
8.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

A leak of a recent report tells us the top generals and admirals are worried about how deeply the Iran war is degrading our military—and about the turmoil set off by Hegseth’s chaotic reign. https://t.co/YjzqL47LES 593 views · 15 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Trump's America struts and frets on the world stage alone (cases in point: the Canada trade fiasco and the toothless economic D-Day against Iran). https://t.co/0OTAZziO7i 535 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
It's a high bar, but this is the stupidest, most dangerous thing Hegseth has done. Abolishing the Army's drone unit and restoring it to the "core mission" of airborne infantry is just nuts. Drone warfre is the new "core mission." https://t.co/889J9GOh6J 514 views · 9 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@fmkaplan Exactly. I see no reports of Biden doi g anyrhing with military. You all blame Trump for our shitty government. Time to seek out others and not just him. The guy can't control everything. The military is ran by manu presidents and as a voter I dont see the reason to 68 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Trump says he wouldn’t have allowed N Korea to build nukes if he’d been president. But he did allow it, or did nothing - and continues doing nothing - to stop it. 572 views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@fmkaplan I remember in the Nineties when the entire Navy was stood down, to address a rash of lapses. 12 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Why the Navy is in shambles. (Trump and the Iran war are partly to blame but not entirely.) https://t.co/cm2RtvApDz 6K views · 30 likes · 10 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views535this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.52%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.47%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post5359240.58×
Reach (views ÷ followers)3.52%3.62%0.97×
Engagement rate1.47%1.52%0.97×

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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

6K19 Aug
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51420 Aug
53526 Aug
59331 Aug

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

0.71%19 Aug
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2.80%
1.47%
2.72%20 Aug
0.56%26 Aug
2.70%31 Aug

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

What the audience does

Likes73.0%73 in total
Reposts16.0%16 in total
Replies4.0%4 in total
Bookmarks7.0%7 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.

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