Michael Carpenter

@mikercarpenter · Washington, DC · joined 22 Jan 2017

Former Ambassador to OSCE, NSC Senior Director for Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia. Retweets ≠ endorsements.

44 357Followers

1 700Following

861Posts total

2.9MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views14 043this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %31.66%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.21%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	14 043	3 383	4.15×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	31.66%	10.96%	2.89×
Engagement rate	1.21%	1.40%	0.86×

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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

188.5K23 Jul

3.8K25 Jul

32.4K5 Aug

1.5K6 Aug

2.6M16 Aug

5K17 Aug

58.4K

1.5K18 Aug

18.2K2 Sep

9.9K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

7.81%23 Jul

1.77%25 Jul

0.28%5 Aug

0.20%6 Aug

0.34%16 Aug

1.53%17 Aug

1.94%

0.27%18 Aug

2.71%2 Sep

0.89%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes73.7%18 741 in total

Reposts18.5%4 696 in total

Replies4.3%1 084 in total

Quotes3.6%905 in total

Bookmarks0.0%5 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

How long is this going to take? Just do it. 9.9K views · 73 likes · 14 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 BREAKING!! Rubio tells "Kilmeade Show" that the United States is negotiating a license with Ukraine to produce Patriot air‑defense missiles. 18.2K views · 389 likes · 80 reposts · 14 replies 02 Sep 2026 I guess the question for me is whether this pattern of behavior is born of unfamiliarity with policy details or rather a deliberate across-the-board policy of currying favor with adversaries and consistently undercutting allies. 1.5K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 18 Aug 2026 It also confirms Trump's susceptibility to manipulation by self-interested actors to prey on his ignorance and sell him their narratives. Putin persuaded him that Ukraine started the war, Zelenskyy is a dictator, and Russia has legitimate territorial claims; Netanyahu persuaded 58.4K views · 846 likes · 240 reposts · 27 replies 17 Aug 2026 The pattern is by now well established. Curry favor with adversaries and downgrade relations with allies. When policy intellectuals in the administration denigrate “values” (democracy, freedom) and talk up their own “interests-based” approach, the question is: whose interests? 5K views · 57 likes · 17 reposts · 0 replies 17 Aug 2026 U.S. President Donald J. Trump has announced that he has instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to substantially reduce any future joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea, calling them “totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, who he claims 2.6M views · 6.3K likes · 937 reposts · 749 replies 16 Aug 2026 Paragons of the Rule of Law 👀 1.5K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 06 Aug 2026 EXCLUSIVE: Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia | Reuters https://t.co/eLaAVTscq1 32.4K views · 45 likes · 32 reposts · 3 replies 05 Aug 2026 This is not a post I can “like.” But it’s a story that too many Americans don’t hear. Or if they do they think it’s a tragic but isolated case. Sadly there are thousands like Stepan, tortured in the Russian filtration camps or elsewhere. 3.8K views · 53 likes · 15 reposts · 0 replies 25 Jul 2026 🇺🇦 Stepan Chubenko. A pro-Ukraine Donbas native. 16-year-old. A goalie & poet. Fearless. Son to a Ukrainian dad & Russian mom. On this day 12 years ago, he took a train in the occupied Donbas. They arrested him. Tortured for days. Executed him mafia-style. Months late 188.5K views · 10.9K likes · 3.4K reposts · 291 replies 23 Jul 2026