Michael S. Schmidt ✓

@nytmike · Washington D.C. · joined 17 Nov 2008

reporter @nytimes book: “Donald Trump v the United States” https://t.co/3fF07VHSZ0

218 285Followers

1 910Following

4 341Posts total

1.8MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views62 412this account6 178median for 100K–1M

Reach, %28.59%this account2.63%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.86%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	62 412	6 178	10.1×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	28.59%	2.63%	10.9×
Engagement rate	0.86%	1.40%	0.61×

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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

448.7K11 Jul

54.1K21 Jul

529.4K2 Aug

26.6K

3.6K

123.8K4 Aug

531.1K10 Aug

9.3K

4.9K11 Aug

70.7K

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

0.87%11 Jul

0.34%21 Jul

0.22%2 Aug

0.85%

2.13%

0.34%4 Aug

0.49%10 Aug

4.25%

7.92%11 Aug

7.41%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes71.7%11 025 in total

Reposts17.0%2 608 in total

Replies5.5%853 in total

Quotes0.9%143 in total

Bookmarks4.9%753 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

@nytmike I know it must be tremendously embarrassing to be known as someone who helped spread the lie that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia, but have some dignity, man. 70.7K views · 4.8K likes · 427 reposts · 47 replies 11 Aug 2026 @nytmike Was this stuck in drafts and got published a decade later? Or are you honestly retarded.. 4.9K views · 368 likes · 11 reposts · 5 replies 11 Aug 2026 @nytmike Dems should call for a Special Counsel to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. 9.3K views · 361 likes · 5 reposts · 26 replies 10 Aug 2026 NEW: The trove of documents released by the White House last week about the Russia investigation shed new light on a longstanding question: Whatever happened to the counterintelligence investigation the FBI wanted done into Trump's ties to Russia? Short answer: It was sidetracked 531.1K views · 1.4K likes · 645 reposts · 525 replies 10 Aug 2026 .@TinaBrownLM weighs in on Paul Weiss: “It turns out that the only reason Karp et al. stood up to Trump in the first term was because there were no consequences for defiance. Moral courage was really moral vanity. The Trump reckoning moment exposed how costly the real work of 123.8K views · 319 likes · 92 reposts · 9 replies 04 Aug 2026 @nytmike This article is supposedly about why Brad Karp capitulated, but it doesn't answer: why? Also, why did you leave out the awful Epstein emails? Sure it's relevant to Karp's rapid capitulation to Trump that he had gotten himself deeply enmeshed with Trump's best friend Eps 3.6K views · 65 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies 02 Aug 2026 Among the more remarkable things we found out was that Paul Weiss paid for associates to work on the Manhattan DA’s criminal investigation of Trump. In 20 years covering criminal investigations, I had never heard of such an arrangement in a criminal matter. 26.6K views · 171 likes · 48 reposts · 5 replies 02 Aug 2026 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Paul Weiss led the legal resistance during Trump’s 1st term. Dating back to Civil Rights era it stood up to the govt no matter who was in power. But it became one of the 1st institutions to bend knee to Trump. Here’s the inside story of how that happened 529.4K views · 827 likes · 300 reposts · 33 replies 02 Aug 2026 NEW: Top Cong Dems said in interviews that investigating Trump's law firm deals will be one way they use their power if they win back control of one or both houses. Dems made statements as they sent new letter to Skadden demanding info on deal with Trump. https://t.co/83UuGTC4OI 54.1K views · 95 likes · 49 reposts · 35 replies 21 Jul 2026 NYT top newsroom lawyer David McCraw: “This brazen act should be seen as nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs.” https://t.co/mmQ2mvSR7V 448.7K views · 2.7K likes · 1K reposts · 166 replies 11 Jul 2026