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
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If any of you are in Los Angeles tomorrow night, I'll be with the legendary Todd Purdum👇
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Thursday, September 24: NYT White House Reporter @jonathanvswan and No. 1 NYT bestselling coauthor of "Regime Change" (w/ @maggienyt) in conversation with Todd Purdum.
Part of the 'Writers Bloc Presents' series in Los Angeles.
Event info: https://t.co/w4LZF1N8ap https://t.co/0J
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Our latest from y'day - behind the scenes on POTUS's deliberations: After intense lobbying from MBS, Trump wavered back and forth but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia -- for now -- in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. The U.S. military was all set to go. But
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Shelton is improving. If he stays on this trajectory he may one day be close to as good as Pat Rafter.
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POINT OF THE TOURNAMENT https://t.co/KinG016xug
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@jonathanvswan It would be wonderful if you wrote about the fact that the president regularly barfs out delusional crackpot nonsense. Saving it for the next book? Regards one disgusted veteran
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@jonathanvswan Sorry, it is not a gift if you have to register to read it.
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the most wonderful story. https://t.co/SnlZeFLga2
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@jonathanvswan It’s telling that Hegseth is focused on finding leaks even though there were reports prior to the start of the war that advisers were warning that a war could risk depleting our munitions.
He is focused on whom to blame for telling the American people the truth, w
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@jonathanvswan @yashar Think tanks (CSIS) and defense experts already stated before 28 February that war with Iran at a certain intensity and period would cause shortages in air defense interceptors and PGMs…did the leaks give numbers remaining or divulge classified information?
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@jonathanvswan It's worth noting that there is no documented instance of polygraph screening ever solving a federal leak investigation.
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Our story from earlier tonight: U.S. government investigators have taken the extraordinary step of subjecting roughly 50 members of the U.S. military’s Joint Staff to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists, including about how the Iran war has created a shortage of crucial
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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
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@jonathanvswan Abusers never think they’re abusers. That’s why these interviews are revealing. Just let them talk, and they hang themselves.
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@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.
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@jonathanvswan This is literally Trump every time he has been interviewed over the last decade. How is this “astonishing” in any way?
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one of the most astonishing interviews I've ever seen with a politician. hard to watch but worth watching in full. power of preparation.
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A candid assessment of GOP Rep Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper just now, from a GOP strategist:
"I mean what the absolute fuck was that"
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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
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More physical copies are coming soon, I am told. Thank you to everyone for reading. 🙏
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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
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Against accounts of the same size
22 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views41 620this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %4.05%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.54%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 41 620 | 14 648 | 2.84× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.05% | 0.74% | 5.47× |
| Engagement rate | 0.54% | 0.70% | 0.78× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
6295 Sep
748
922
60.1K9 Sep
2.1K
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734
624.9K
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33.7K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.91%5 Sep
1.74%
3.69%
0.44%9 Sep
0.29%
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1.42%
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0.07%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes81.0%22 771 in total
Reposts9.7%2 737 in total
Replies1.5%431 in total
Quotes0.7%202 in total
Bookmarks7.1%1 985 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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