Michael Brendan Dougherty ✓

@michaelbd · joined 01 Nov 2007

author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Senior Writer @NRO.

82 757Followers

3 217Following

84 428Posts total

38.1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views16 774this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %20.27%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.59%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	16 774	2 896	5.79×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	20.27%	9.51%	2.13×
Engagement rate	0.59%	1.56%	0.38×

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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

1.3M13 Feb

395.3K25 Feb

35.6M31 Aug

703.3K2 Sep

16.7K

16.8K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.14%13 Feb

0.06%25 Feb

0.43%31 Aug

0.88%2 Sep

0.59%

0.46%

1.00%

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

What the audience does

Likes90.0%145 315 in total

Reposts6.6%10 644 in total

Replies0.8%1 301 in total

Quotes1.8%2 897 in total

Bookmarks0.8%1 309 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

Just an astonishing profession, filled with normal, public-spirited geniuses correcting the ignorant masses. 16.8K views · 146 likes · 12 reposts · 9 replies 02 Sep 2026 This is more my normal speed. The Maine Supreme Court futilely tries to regulate the religious influence of a mother. https://t.co/xlsbPozgXQ 5K views · 19 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Wrote something that will really jeopardize my conservative card this time. Coming soon. 16.7K views · 79 likes · 0 reposts · 17 replies 02 Sep 2026 Six months ago when she said she wanted to pull this off she said she’d have to alter the vowels. Singing a true long e be tough. She very slight changes “be” to “bae” on the high ones. The truly nuts part is she manages to replicate the “original” vocal compression effect on the 703.3K views · 6K likes · 172 reposts · 25 replies 02 Sep 2026 Kelly Clarkson proving that she is the ONLY mainstream singer who can sing Golden on the original key live 😭 https://t.co/Kzo12Uh9u5 35.6M views · 138K likes · 10.1K reposts · 905 replies 31 Aug 2026 Me: Hey kid! Back up, you're going to get bit by that crocodile if you're not careful. Them: Crocodile lover. Big Croc shill. Why do you hate innocent kids? 395.3K views · 204 likes · 19 reposts · 21 replies 25 Feb 2025 A Yale economics professor has some ideas for how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. The “only solution,” he said, is mass suicide of the elderly, including ritual disembowelment. https://t.co/mPT7XgK19y 1.3M views · 884 likes · 304 reposts · 323 replies 13 Feb 2023