Jonathan Chait ✓

@jonathanchait · Washington, D.C. · joined 24 Jun 2009

Atlantic staff writer. Liberal (not leftist, not centrist). Tweets with links are prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments.

193 869Followers

832Following

70 193Posts total

1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views4 810this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.48%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.40%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 810	21 891	0.22×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.48%	6.81%	0.36×
Engagement rate	0.40%	1.14%	0.35×

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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

984.1K11 Nov

5.2K2 Sep

4.6K

2.4K3 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

0.19%11 Nov

0.42%2 Sep

0.38%

0.09%

0.88%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes64.2%1 274 in total

Reposts4.8%96 in total

Replies16.8%334 in total

Quotes10.0%199 in total

Bookmarks4.1%81 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

The Venezuelan oil heist combines Trump's hatred for democracy with his love for criminals https://t.co/OYQnfWHpgR 2.4K views · 15 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 I don't know enough about the subject matter to judge how insightful this @lionel_trolling essay is, but it's a fun read https://t.co/BH2w1quNrL 4.6K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Good @WeisbergNate profile of @neeratanden https://t.co/HTGxw3jWsF 5K views · 16 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 Trump chose kleptocracy over democracy in Venezuela because of course he did https://t.co/OYQnfWHpgR 5.2K views · 18 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Some personal news. Sad to say goodbye to ⁦@NYMag⁩ but thrilled to be joining ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ https://t.co/ZwfE2ZwDHA 984.1K views · 1.2K likes · 90 reposts · 329 replies 11 Nov 2024