Rick Noack

@rick_n

Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief at @Reuters. Former @washingtonpost Kabul bureau chief and Paris correspondent.

6 666Followers

2 336Following

1 608Posts total

135.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views3 822this account4 686median for under 10K

Reach, %57.34%this account307.95%median for under 10K

Engagement, %3.55%this account1.14%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 822	4 686	0.82×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	57.34%	3.1× audience	0.19×
Engagement rate	3.55%	1.14%	3.13×

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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

127.2K1 Jul

938

1.8K

5.9K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.17%1 Jul

3.09%

4.42%

4.01%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes73.9%1 494 in total

Reposts6.5%131 in total

Replies9.2%185 in total

Quotes0.9%19 in total

Bookmarks9.5%192 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

@rick_n @Reuters Good, get Reuters to finally tell the truth about Hamza bin Laden 5.9K views · 222 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies 01 Jul 2026 @rick_n @Reuters Good luck Rick. Looking forward to reading follow ups on billions of dollars of alleged aircraft sales by Pakistan Reuters has been reporting over the past year. 1.8K views · 69 likes · 10 reposts · 0 replies 01 Jul 2026 @rick_n @Reuters Welcome Rick, hope Reuters would restore it's credibility. Don't rely on stringers and sectarian bigots to file stories. Best of luck! 938 views · 29 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Jul 2026 Today is my first day as @Reuters bureau chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, the two countries I most recently covered for The Washington Post. You can reach me at rick.noack@thomsonreuters.com 127.2K views · 1.2K likes · 109 reposts · 184 replies 01 Jul 2026