Jonathan Swan ✓

@jonathanvswan · joined 02 Jul 2011

New York Times reporter. Co-author of "REGIME CHANGE: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" — https://t.co/rONvZoFWKA

1 022 120Followers

6 231Following

11 829Posts total

1.4MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views45 401this account24 048median for 1M–10M

Reach, %4.44%this account1.04%median for 1M–10M

Engagement, %0.61%this account1.58%median for 1M–10M

Metric	This account	Median for 1M–10M	Ratio
Median views per post	45 401	24 048	1.89×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.44%	1.04%	4.27×
Engagement rate	0.61%	1.58%	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

113.7K8 Jul

45.4K

40.9K10 Jul

522.7K4 Aug

563.5K

3.9K5 Aug

7.2K

4.7K

55.1K16 Aug

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.02%8 Jul

0.26%

0.41%10 Jul

0.74%4 Aug

0.56%

0.61%5 Aug

0.64%

1.12%

1.03%16 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 1.58%.

What the audience does

Likes85.4%7 314 in total

Reposts6.7%573 in total

Replies1.7%148 in total

Quotes0.2%20 in total

Bookmarks6.0%511 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

It was brought to my attention that someone is pretending to be me on Bluesky. I don’t have an account on Bluesky and have never been on Bluesky. I don’t have an account on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok either. For now, at least, Twitter/X is my one stop shop for brain rot h 55.1K views · 486 likes · 57 reposts · 23 replies 16 Aug 2026 @jonathanvswan Abusers never think they’re abusers. That’s why these interviews are revealing. Just let them talk, and they hang themselves. 4.7K views · 49 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 05 Aug 2026 @jonathanvswan Nah, I got 8 minutes in and I'm fully convinced the guy should be executed, he has to end his campaign and I don't ever want to hear another word out of his mouth again. 7.2K views · 45 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 05 Aug 2026 @jonathanvswan This is literally Trump every time he has been interviewed over the last decade. How is this “astonishing” in any way? 3.9K views · 24 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Aug 2026 one of the most astonishing interviews I've ever seen with a politician. hard to watch but worth watching in full. power of preparation. 563.5K views · 2.9K likes · 231 reposts · 42 replies 04 Aug 2026 I've never seen anything like it. 522.7K views · 3.6K likes · 254 reposts · 46 replies 04 Aug 2026 The reprints are finally in and "REGIME CHANGE" can finally be bought again on Amazon - in good old fashioned physical book form - with a two-day free delivery. And local book stores should be resupplied soon. Thank you for your patience 🙏 https://t.co/fxgGUfLlWo 40.9K views · 128 likes · 17 reposts · 18 replies 10 Jul 2026 More physical copies are coming soon, I am told. Thank you to everyone for reading. 🙏 45.4K views · 95 likes · 9 reposts · 16 replies 08 Jul 2026 Now TWO weeks atop the bestseller list for REGIME CHANGE. Here's why that's remarkable achievement in nonfiction. We ran out of copies on publication day - 15 days ago. Books are still weeks away from being fully back in stock on Amazon and elsewhere. And somehow, with only a 113.7K views · 16 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 08 Jul 2026