Michael D. Shear

@shearm · joined 26 Apr 2008

White House Correspondent for The New York Times and co-author of “BORDER WARS: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration”

96 161Followers

1 802Following

6 310Posts total

338.9KViews 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

15.8K

80028 Mar

21.7K10 Nov

283

4325 Nov

278.4K21 Dec

3.3K

4.7K

2.4K

7.1K

1.7K22 Dec

2.6K10 Feb

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

1.66%

0.12%28 Mar

0.31%10 Nov

1.06%

0.00%25 Nov

0.33%21 Dec

2.88%

1.86%

3.57%

1.93%

4.77%22 Dec

0.31%10 Feb

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

What the audience does

Likes67.1%1 270 in total

Reposts21.9%415 in total

Replies2.4%45 in total

Quotes1.3%24 in total

Bookmarks7.3%138 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

NEW: The man at the center of the scandal that threatens to bring down British PM Keir Starmer. What the files say about his ties to Epstein, and how that differs from what he told the UK. w/ @jane__bradley https://t.co/oe5QYjamcw 2.6K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 10 Feb 2026 @shearm You use a lot of crappy language. “Extremist Jewish settlers & Palestinians farmers are the foot soldiers” no dude - the Extremists are terrorists engaged in war crimes & the Palestinians are victims jst trying to exist & make it thru the israelis constant ter 1.7K views · 68 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 22 Dec 2025 I spent a week visiting about a dozen villages. My colleagues went back over more than 2 months. We studied mapping data and court orders. The land grab really escalated after Oct. 7. 7.1K views · 111 likes · 23 reposts · 3 replies 21 Dec 2025 Rezek Abu Naim, a Bedouin farmer known to everyone in his village as Abu Hamam, has been attacked by the settlers may times. He told us he does not want to leave his land despite the attacks. 2.4K views · 74 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies 21 Dec 2025 The settlers wouldn’t talk to us. But we did get responses from the Israeli military, which generally said their actions were designed to reduce tensions and increase security. The Palestinians we talked to don’t see it that way. 4.7K views · 72 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies 21 Dec 2025 I hope our efforts help to provide a real understanding of what has been going on in the West Bank while the world’s attention was (rightly) focused on Gaza. 3.3K views · 75 likes · 16 reposts · 3 replies 21 Dec 2025 Our months long investigation on the increasingly violent tactics of Israeli settlers, supported by the IDF, to seize land from Palestinians in the West Bank. https://t.co/7A4MrwQIEy 278.4K views · 613 likes · 276 reposts · 19 replies 21 Dec 2025 @shearm Insightful reporting & analysis on what appears to have been a successful European effort to bring Trump's Ukraine initiative -- less U.S. "peace plan" than Russian wish list -- back to reality. 43 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 25 Nov 2025 @shearm We're now at the stage where repeating Trump's own comments gets you sued. Banana Repubic Dictatorship has arrived faster than we thought. 283 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 10 Nov 2025 Scoop: President Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion for what his lawyer calls "false, defamatory, malicious, disparaging, and inflammatory statements" in a documentary that included comments Trump made on Jan 6, 2021. https://t.co/g7fwLDtwB7 21.7K views · 38 likes · 23 reposts · 5 replies 10 Nov 2025 @NotionMail is there a reason why my drafts in Notion Mail would not be synced back to Gmail. I created a draft reply in NM, but when I go back to Gmail on the web, it's not there. And a draft I created in Gmail on the web doesn't show up in Notion Mail. Thoughts? 800 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 28 Mar 2025 15.8K views · 211 likes · 43 reposts · 8 replies

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