Robert Barnes

@robert_a_barnes · Washington, DC · joined 08 Mar 2011

Robert Barnes formerly covered the Supreme Court for The Washington Post.

51 805Followers

696Following

6 472Posts total

10.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Robert Barnes@robert_a_barnes21 Nov 2025

An extraordinary piece puts everything together https://t.co/bEyH8uWw1n 1.7K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Robert Barnes@robert_a_barnes11 Jul 2025

@peterbakernyt says it better than I could—naturally—but I’ll just add that I’ve never respected a reporter more than @danbalz 657 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Robert Barnes@robert_a_barnes27 Jun 2025

Live updates: Supreme Court to rule on birthright citizenship and other major cases - The Washington Post via ⁦@amarimow⁩ https://t.co/dO76RD2XN9 2.2K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Robert Barnes@robert_a_barnes5 Jan 2025

Details emerge in plan to kill Kavanaugh: ‘Break in, shoot him and then shoot myself’ https://t.co/EgRB6m7utJ 3.3K views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Robert Barnes@robert_a_barnes13 Nov 2024

https://t.co/52zIYV8iaY 2.9K views · 9 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

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

2.9K13 Nov

3.3K5 Jan

2.2K27 Jun

65711 Jul

1.7K21 Nov

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.63%13 Nov

0.55%5 Jan

0.27%27 Jun

0.30%11 Jul

0.42%21 Nov

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

What the audience does

Likes50.9%27 in total

Reposts18.9%10 in total

Replies22.6%12 in total

Quotes3.8%2 in total

Bookmarks3.8%2 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.

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