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

130.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Michael Carpenter@mikercarpenter2 Sep

How long is this going to take? Just do it. 9.9K views · 73 likes · 14 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Carpenter@mikercarpenter2 Sep

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 Open on X →

Michael Carpenter@mikercarpenter18 Aug

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 Open on X →

Michael Carpenter@mikercarpenter17 Aug

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 Open on X →

Michael Carpenter@mikercarpenter17 Aug

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 Open on X →

Michael Carpenter@mikercarpenter6 Aug

Paragons of the Rule of Law 👀 1.5K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Michael Carpenter@mikercarpenter5 Aug

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 Open on X →

Michael Carpenter@mikercarpenter25 Jul

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 Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views9 887this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %22.29%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.53%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	9 887	924	10.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	22.29%	3.62%	6.16×
Engagement rate	1.53%	1.52%	1.01×

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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

3.8K25 Jul

32.4K5 Aug

1.5K6 Aug

5K17 Aug

58.4K

1.5K18 Aug

18.2K2 Sep

9.9K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.77%25 Jul

0.28%5 Aug

0.20%6 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 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes74.9%1 468 in total

Reposts20.4%400 in total

Replies2.2%44 in total

Quotes2.2%44 in total

Bookmarks0.3%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.