Nick Penzenstadler

@npenzenstadler · Milwaukee, WI · joined 23 Jan 2009

Reporter at @USATODAY's investigative team, from Oshkosh, Badger. npenz@usatoday.com. Signal: 720-507-5273 PGP: https://t.co/6MGP0KvlrL

12 795Followers

12 707Following

39 936Posts total

399.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views934this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.30%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.55%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	934	3 383	0.28×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.30%	10.96%	0.67×
Engagement rate	0.55%	1.40%	0.39×

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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

50.8K2 Sep

345.9K

934

1.4K

285

3623 Sep

137

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

10.84%2 Sep

0.94%

0.54%

0.73%

0.35%

0.55%3 Sep

0.00%

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

What the audience does

Likes75.5%6 907 in total

Reposts15.8%1 448 in total

Replies3.9%353 in total

Quotes0.6%56 in total

Bookmarks4.2%385 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

Lutnick apologizes for saying no Americans have died in the Iran war https://t.co/sQFE3un8Oa via @usatoday 137 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 The Athletic’s review of Dianna Russini’s work concludes she was ‘noncompliant’ with standards https://t.co/hVr33EPS8r 362 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 I remember the driveway moment listening to Pablo explain this… what crazy impact from an investigative series (that rightly was given our industry’s top prize- but this much taste sweeter) 285 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 The news of this crackdown on leaks was naturally... leaked. 1.4K views · 5 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Can a tax expert here help me understand how cutting taxes puts more money into a taxpayer-funded system? 934 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon has pulled decades of classified documents from a secret computer system commonly used by defense officials and U.S. troops, after The Washington Post published a story detailing senior military officers’ concerns about the Iran war. 345.9K views · 2.4K likes · 644 reposts · 174 replies 02 Sep 2026 This is HUGE ⬇️ Thanks to @POTUS’ push to modernize our skies, @USDOT is using $12.5 BILLION from the Working Families Tax Cuts to build a brand new air traffic control system ✈️ And SOON…. We’ll announce a MAJOR STEP that will take AIR TRAVEL to new heights like we’ve never h 50.8K views · 4.5K likes · 798 reposts · 177 replies 02 Sep 2026