Will Doran

@will_doran · Canteloupe Island · joined 07 Apr 2010

North Carolina politics reporter for @WRAL covering all things #ncpol. Formerly @newsobserver @sanfordherald @dailytarheel

13 928Followers

2 156Following

47 187Posts total

884.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views6 794this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %48.78%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.03%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 794	2 751	2.47×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	48.78%	9.00%	5.42×
Engagement rate	1.03%	1.65%	0.62×

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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

74.8K30 Jan

97728 Aug

782.3K2 Sep

5.1K

6.8K

14.6K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.67%30 Jan

0.51%28 Aug

1.23%2 Sep

1.03%

2.38%

0.60%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes66.1%6 888 in total

Reposts29.4%3 061 in total

Replies1.8%185 in total

Quotes2.5%265 in total

Bookmarks0.2%21 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

The #ncpol elections board delayed a vote today on new mail-in voting rules What are those new rules? No idea. The board tells me it's not public record. The vote? Rescheduled to 9am Friday (3 hrs before mail-in voting starts) We might learn more at a press conference tomorrow 14.6K views · 50 likes · 30 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 Older people wonder why my generation isn’t having kids, and then they turn around and try to throw parents in prison for letting their kids play outside 6.8K views · 150 likes · 9 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 This company is based in Johnston County and has also received special treatment at the state level, @carolineyaffatv reported Monday. #ncpol 5.1K views · 39 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House. https://t.co/bp9HDvuNOZ 782.3K views · 6.2K likes · 3K reposts · 124 replies 02 Sep 2026 In Raleigh for a speech on immigration by#ncpol US Senate candidate Michael Whatley, joined by the union leader for the Border Patrol https://t.co/4tDDmKqCLk 977 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 28 Aug 2026 Today I start a new chapter of my journalism career at @WRAL and @NCCapitol and am very excited for what’s next. I’ll still be covering all things #ncpol/#ncga, so keep the tips coming! 74.8K views · 435 likes · 9 reposts · 51 replies 30 Jan 2023