Martin Austermuhle

@maustermuhle · Washington, DC · joined 27 May 2010

D.C. reporter with @NOTUSreports. Former: @51stnews, @wamu885 and @dcist. You can find me at the same username over at 🦋. Signal username: maustermuhle.09

62 625Followers

5 473Following

118 166Posts total

18.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 727this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.95%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.89%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 727	2 896	1.29×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.95%	9.51%	0.63×
Engagement rate	0.89%	1.56%	0.57×

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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

2.7K2 Sep

1.7K

3.7K

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

0.89%2 Sep

0.50%

0.66%

3.18%

1.48%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes68.6%140 in total

Reposts17.2%35 in total

Replies4.9%10 in total

Quotes2.5%5 in total

Bookmarks6.9%14 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

Probably 200+ people at @Janeese4DC’s town hall at All Souls Unitarian Church in Ward 1, part of her citywide listening tour. “You don’t have to feel hopeless… because this is where we resist, legislate, and we actually build,” she tells the crowd. “I’m here to listen.” https:// 3.7K views · 41 likes · 9 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 Very cool sky over the Capitol right now. https://t.co/H57pJ4lekX 1.7K views · 49 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Interesting: Anti-Flock activists in D.C. want @Janeese4DC, if and when she's elected mayor, to end the use of license plate readers and other surveillance devices. As I reported with @jennygathright recently, there's not much known about Flock's use here: https://t.co/RMpu5jfJxN 5K views · 20 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 Interesting: Yesterday @trayonwhite addressed his upcoming federal bribery trial (starting Sept. 14) on Instagram, making some of the first public comments in a while. "I feel really good and encouraged about my trial. I’m in good spirits… I trust my legal team," he said. https 5K views · 15 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 D.C.'s restrictive gun laws are facing a bevy of legal challenges, raising the prospect that at some point bans on high-powered rifles, high-capacity magazines, and felons possessing guns could be knocked down. In @NOTUSreports: https://t.co/uadhhdyhCN 2.7K views · 15 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026