Simon Shuster

@shustry

Staff writer @TheAtlantic covering armed conflict and national security. Author of The Showman: https://t.co/DJ9mn0Ps5N

54 600Followers

1 139Following

3 951Posts total

47.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 551this account2 259median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.84%this account6.80%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.93%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 551	2 259	0.69×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.84%	6.80%	0.42×
Engagement rate	0.93%	1.52%	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

43.5K2 Sep

2.1K

967

925

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

0.76%2 Sep

0.89%

1.34%

0.97%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes61.9%268 in total

Reposts18.7%81 in total

Replies3.5%15 in total

Quotes1.4%6 in total

Bookmarks14.5%63 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

@shustry @ZelenskyyUa @TheAtlantic Nazixl rat zelensky should be shown NO mercy 😤 I am lost why putin is not being harsh on ukraine leadership. No negotiations with nazi terrorist in Kiev! 925 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 @shustry @ZelenskyyUa @TheAtlantic Terror will be met with terror. Against Ukrainians. Do you support the victims and suffering of Ukrainians? 967 views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @shustry @ZelenskyyUa @TheAtlantic In your article, which is excellent, you might have mentioned that Russia had its airports in Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh and other big cities permanently closed since the start of the war. It's that the Russian elite care 2.1K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 President @ZelenskyyUa has officially announced the start of the operation known as M&Ms, which we reported on last month @TheAtlantic. One of the sources who initially told me about the plan confirmed to me this morning that this is it. https://t.co/409NHirH1H 43.5K views · 233 likes · 81 reposts · 9 replies 02 Sep 2026