Tom Wright ✓

@thomaswright08

Senior Fellow @BrookingsFP. Contributing writer @TheAtlantic, Formerly Biden NSC, Author of All Measures Short of War, co-author of Aftershocks. Views my own.

35 902Followers

1 861Following

23 314Posts total

236.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views6 004this account942median for 10K–100K

Reach, %16.72%this account3.24%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.43%this account1.99%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 004	942	6.37×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	16.72%	3.24%	5.16×
Engagement rate	0.43%	1.99%	0.22×

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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

223.8K26 Aug

9.2K

2.8K

76127 Aug

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

0.40%26 Aug

0.24%

0.47%

1.71%27 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.99%.

What the audience does

Likes70.0%774 in total

Reposts12.0%133 in total

Replies2.6%29 in total

Quotes1.1%12 in total

Bookmarks14.3%158 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

@thomaswright08 "Insider leaks" is a very special form of Russian propaganda that respectable Western media keep falling for 761 views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@thomaswright08 And if US officials had such information, they would probably fly the director of the CIA to Moscow to warn them against it. Oh, wait... 😬 https://t.co/mm9NNihEKG 2.8K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@thomaswright08 I am not sure I follow your scepticism. Doesn't your experience show that yes, Putin has considered doing this? And if so, why would he not again? 9.2K views · 19 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 26 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I am very skeptical of this. I was deeply involved in dealing with and responding to the risk of Russian nuclear use in 2022. In that case we had specific intelligence that gave us cause for concern for approximately 5 months. If US officials have similar information now that 223.8K views · 731 likes · 131 reposts · 27 replies 26 Aug 2026 · Open on X →