Heather Knight

@hknightsf · San Francisco · joined 18 Mar 2009

San Francisco bureau chief for the New York Times; former columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and co-host of #TotalSF podcast; proud to call SF home

54 591Followers

1 814Following

32 220Posts total

2.1MViews 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

2.5K28 Jan

2.3K

1M4 Feb

19.1K

456.1K19 Mar

620.7K25 Mar

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

0.12%28 Jan

0.88%

0.70%4 Feb

1.18%

0.37%19 Mar

0.38%25 Mar

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

What the audience does

Likes60.8%7 047 in total

Reposts6.3%724 in total

Replies27.5%3 190 in total

Quotes3.5%411 in total

Bookmarks1.8%209 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

NEW: A viral video showed ICE agents detaining a woman at SFO on Sunday night. Documents obtained by the @nytimes show TSA officials scanning passenger lists tipped off ICE she was planning to fly to Miami. The woman has no criminal history. Always great to team with @Haleaziz. 620.7K views · 1.1K likes · 282 reposts · 933 replies 25 Mar 2026 Nobody disputes that Mary Lau was driving 75 miles per hour on San Francisco streets when she struck and killed an entire family. On Friday, a judge is expected to give her probation. After that, she could get her license back. The case raises the question, what is justice? 456.1K views · 1.5K likes · 89 reposts · 76 replies 19 Mar 2026 Facts 19.1K views · 195 likes · 8 reposts · 21 replies 04 Feb 2026 for the love of God, literally no one calls it San Fran. It’s SF, San Francisco, or the city. 1M views · 4.2K likes · 343 reposts · 2.2K replies 04 Feb 2026 Who knew covering San Francisco would include so many animal stories. From sea lions to coyotes, Kit Kat to Claude, and now the Pacific Heights mountain lion, it’s a zoo out there! 2.3K views · 16 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 28 Jan 2026 @hknightsf And you were just recovering from your first alligator funeral. Is there no end to the madness??? You're becoming the Marlin Perkins of SF. https://t.co/SquDbHsp4d 2.5K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 28 Jan 2026 My latest: In May, Laurie Steves ripped up her life outside Seattle and moved to San Francisco to try to save her daughter, Jessica, who's homeless in the Tenderloin and addicted to fentanyl. @gabriellelurie and I have followed their story ever since. https://t.co/3mOHrwnYwk 0 views · 978 likes · 193 reposts · 163 replies 02 Dec 2021

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