Radley Balko ✓

@radleybalko · Nashville, TN · joined 12 Aug 2008

Investigative journalist. Journalism fellow: Quattrone Center. Books: Rise of the Warrior Cop, Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Honorary Duckmaster.

104 233Followers

2 907Following

59 909Posts total

82.3KViews 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

23.3K24 Sep

22.8K27 Sep

12.5K28 Oct

23.6K28 Aug

12029 Aug

5112 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.55%24 Sep

0.59%27 Sep

1.70%28 Oct

0.76%28 Aug

2.50%29 Aug

3.92%12 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes84.3%976 in total

Reposts8.5%99 in total

Replies4.1%47 in total

Quotes0.3%4 in total

Bookmarks2.8%32 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

@radleybalko The man you are swooning over for a mention ordered the extrajudicial murder of an American citizen. What the fuck happened to you? 51 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 12 Sep 2025 @radleybalko Agree Obama is an ass. 120 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2025 !! 23.6K views · 150 likes · 19 reposts · 11 replies 28 Aug 2025 If any of you 200K are looking for a place to spend your journalism-supporting budget, I know of a pretty swell, hard-hitting newsletter. https://t.co/MTWY63p2u0 12.5K views · 173 likes · 32 reposts · 6 replies 28 Oct 2024 New from me: Less than 5 percent of DA's offices have a unit tasked with seeking out wrongful convictions. I spoke with Marissa Bluestine of the Quattrone Center about what these units do well, what they could do better, and the obstacles they face. (Link follows) https://t.co/I 22.8K views · 90 likes · 39 reposts · 4 replies 27 Sep 2024 We say goodbye to this handsome gentleman today. My wife @LilianaSegura adopted Wally 15 years ago. I don't know that any dog and human could be more perfectly suited for one another. Wally was nearly feral when Liliana got him. She spent the next several years . . . https://t. 23.3K views · 558 likes · 9 reposts · 26 replies 24 Sep 2024 My first big report for the new Substack is now live. It's a two-year investigation into the horrific wrongful conviction of an intellectually disabled man in Arkansas. No paywall, so I hope you'll check it out. https://t.co/VsFDPMOwtI 0 views · 1.9K likes · 792 reposts · 63 replies 05 Oct 2022

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