Bruce Hoffman ✓

@hoffman_bruce · Washington, DC · joined 18 May 2011

I have been studying terrorism & insurgency for 50 years. Senior fellow at @CFR_org. My own opinions. Retweets not endorsements.

23 911Followers

417Following

8 437Posts total

26.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 269this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.31%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.86%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 269	2 578	0.49×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.31%	7.77%	0.68×
Engagement rate	1.86%	1.47%	1.26×

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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

1.3K31 Aug

7821 Sep

2.1K

20.8K3 Sep

1.2K4 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.44%31 Aug

1.79%1 Sep

1.86%

0.68%3 Sep

2.85%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes53.4%174 in total

Reposts21.2%69 in total

Replies2.5%8 in total

Quotes2.5%8 in total

Bookmarks20.6%67 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

“Hamas should have no role in Gaza’s future but, appallingly, so many in the West who consider themselves allies of the Palestinian people still see the group as honorable resistance fighters.” https://t.co/hkKtrcuGCn 1.2K views · 21 likes · 10 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 My assessment of the war on terror's outcome & the terrorist threat today is now live. Thanks to @ManhattanInst for inviting me to contribute this special edition of City Journal. https://t.co/cN1G8oFj7X 20.8K views · 97 likes · 38 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 A candidate for UN S-G who conveniently forgets historical facts: “We must cast our minds back to 1948 because it was in that year that Israel first violently rejected the two-state solution.” https://t.co/KyumxttEa2 2.1K views · 25 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 WSJ to Schumer: "Why not publicly say Mr. Piker’s brand of antisemitism has no place in the Democratic Party and stand with some honor?" https://t.co/gko2ctFVdk 782 views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 “I am ashamed of what our people are doing here,” Assaf Agmon, retired Israeli Air Force general on settler terrorism in the West Bank. https://t.co/T3ZOj2eLs2 1.3K views · 19 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026