Missy Ryan ✓

@missy_ryan · Washington DC · joined 14 Apr 2009

Staff writer at The Atlantic, covering national security, foreign policy and defense. Get in touch on Signal: mryan.86

20 882Followers

4 251Following

16 452Posts total

1.3MViews on collected posts

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

9233 Dec

91.8K29 Jan

6.4K1 Feb

1.1M4 Feb

158K

957

1.9K

1.6K5 Feb

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

0.87%3 Dec

0.58%29 Jan

0.67%1 Feb

1.80%4 Feb

1.38%

0.42%

0.97%

0.42%5 Feb

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes87.5%19 112 in total

Reposts8.2%1 784 in total

Replies3.1%681 in total

Quotes1.2%262 in total

Bookmarks0.0%2 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

100 pct --> 1.6K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 05 Feb 2026 As my colleague @AshleyRParker wrote today, the executives who are gutting the Post fail to understand that "the paper’s coverage of Washington will be neither as vivid nor as authoritative without the contributions of journalists in bureaus around the world." The same is true 1.9K views · 11 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 04 Feb 2026 Standing with Siobhan and all the other courageous and outstanding Post journalists whose work has been so valuable in helping us understand our world. 957 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Feb 2026 If you're canceling your Washington Post subscription but still have an Amazon Prime membership, you're doing it wrong. 158K views · 1.7K likes · 317 reposts · 24 replies 04 Feb 2026 It’s been the honor of my life to serve as Washington Post bureau chief in Ukraine. ❤️‍🩹 1.1M views · 16.9K likes · 1.4K reposts · 628 replies 04 Feb 2026 I couldn't be prouder to have spent a decade working alongside the @washingtonpost's foreign correspondents, a brave, talented and enterprising team of best-in-class journalists. Their presence around the world is crucial to keeping Americans informed about the events that impact 6.4K views · 31 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies 01 Feb 2026 Getting to follow in the footsteps of so many Washington Post correspondents — who have been at the front lines of some of the world’s biggest moments — has been an honor. We are still here, still writing history. I hope that doesn’t change. https://t.co/t92c5JrBeu 91.8K views · 409 likes · 91 reposts · 20 replies 29 Jan 2026 BREAKING: Hegseth risked endangering troops with his Signal messages about planned air strikes in Yemen, the Pentagon's Inspector General has concluded. Reporting via @shaneharris @nancyayoussef @vmsalama @S_Fitzpatrick and me https://t.co/MxLJ2A5mEU 923 views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 03 Dec 2025

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