Nicholas Fandos

@npfandos · New York, NY · joined 26 Aug 2012

NY political correspondent for @nytmetro. Former congressional reporter. Tips and other emails to nicholas.fandos@nytimes.com

31 390Followers

1 675Following

19 142Posts total

651KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views6 812this account1 456median for 10K–100K

Reach, %21.70%this account4.50%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.61%this account1.88%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 812	1 456	4.68×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	21.70%	4.50%	4.82×
Engagement rate	1.61%	1.88%	0.85×

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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

251.9K24 Jun

7.3K

4.6K

1.3K

30.6K25 Jun

18.7K10 Jul

6.3K

273K29 Jul

1.6K

2.4K

1.4K30 Jul

51.9K4 Aug

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.21%24 Jun

2.68%

2.72%

6.16%

0.18%25 Jun

0.54%10 Jul

0.14%

0.07%29 Jul

2.95%

6.79%

3.37%30 Jul

0.19%4 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.88%.

What the audience does

Likes62.8%1 223 in total

Reposts6.7%130 in total

Replies9.2%180 in total

Quotes5.4%106 in total

Bookmarks15.8%308 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

“Can anyone replace him in New York financially? The simple answer is no.” Inside the retrenchment of one of New York's best known billionaires, and what it might mean for the Republican causes he's championed here >> https://t.co/GR4UKz46ld 51.9K views · 50 likes · 25 reposts · 21 replies 04 Aug 2026 @npfandos @elizashapiro Chris Rufo is *still* defending the shameless lie that Haitians were eating cats in Springfield Ohio. 1.4K views · 46 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 30 Jul 2026 @npfandos @elizashapiro a racist idiot like this, perhaps? https://t.co/bRn0SM9oVA 2.4K views · 163 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Jul 2026 @npfandos @elizashapiro Having that quote included where the ending accusation is Mamdani is an idiot tells us all we need to know about the Times. I would probably describe myself as right to Mamdani on a number of items but seeing elites lose their shit and pump out lies, gasli 1.6K views · 45 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 29 Jul 2026 NEW w/@elizashapiro: They are wonky, conservative and obsessed with New York City. Can they stop the Mamdani agenda? “I vehemently believe that we are defenders of the beautiful mosaic. But it means that you need to not be an idiot.” https://t.co/7ojkyoPfDE 273K views · 75 likes · 21 reposts · 69 replies 29 Jul 2026 "Since the fall of the Soviet Union, govt files have been declassified, grand-jury testimony unsealed; key players have made confessions. Robby & Michael, the old men who were once such young boys, have had to make sense of these revelations. Not all have been easy to accept. 6.3K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 10 Jul 2026 When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two young sons, ages 6 and 10, @AmyWeissMeyer writes. Seventy-three years later, they’re still trying to make sense of what happened. https://t.co/l0HcRNLfig 18.7K views · 69 likes · 20 reposts · 10 replies 10 Jul 2026 “The lesson of 2025 is not going to be learned until you lose and you lose and you lose,” Steve Cohen, who led an anti-Mamdani super PAC last year “I’d like to believe that this will wake people up, but I fear it will be dismissed again as an aberration” https://t.co/v5S5AO4UWJ 30.6K views · 33 likes · 15 reposts · 3 replies 25 Jun 2026 @npfandos What about the Black socialists who came out in record numbers? Do we matter? 1.3K views · 80 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 24 Jun 2026 @npfandos The understanding is that black machine politicians will have to call themselves socialists now. The gap between the factions isn’t actually that big 4.6K views · 121 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 24 Jun 2026 @npfandos Correction here: The number of socialists in Congress will be five with Chris Rabb. https://t.co/0zg6uicjcY 7.3K views · 187 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies 24 Jun 2026 “This is a wake-up call,” Letitia James told me. “Obviously, there’s some hurt feelings tonight, particular in communities of color,” she said. “What we have to do is sit down ... and see if we can come to some sort of understanding” https://t.co/skK5Jbdm0v 251.9K views · 348 likes · 39 reposts · 67 replies 24 Jun 2026