Walter Russell Mead ✓

@wrmead · Washington, DC · joined 06 Nov 2009

Scholar @HudsonInstitute, professor @UF and columnist @WSJ. Latest book The Arc of a Covenant available for purchase using the link below.

52 393Followers

1 111Following

21 430Posts total

78.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views4 193this account1 540median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.00%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.92%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 193	1 540	2.72×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.00%	4.74%	1.69×
Engagement rate	0.92%	1.87%	0.49×

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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

5.4K21 Aug

12K24 Aug

19.4K25 Aug

32.9K31 Aug

4.2K

4361 Sep

258

430

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.05%21 Aug

1.03%24 Aug

0.42%25 Aug

0.40%

1.01%31 Aug

1.81%

0.92%1 Sep

0.78%

0.70%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes68.5%534 in total

Reposts11.0%86 in total

Replies5.8%45 in total

Quotes3.6%28 in total

Bookmarks11.0%86 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

@wrmead Walter, Your Nevil Chamberlain Impersonation is Spot On. He too wanted us to ignore the Obvious. Especially Given Iran openly advocating that it will use Nuclear Weapons to bring about the Islamic Messianic Version of the End times and bring about the return of the 12th 430 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 @wrmead Every war is ugly, tricky and messy. 258 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 @wrmead @mirandadevine We wanted to break apart OPEC, make Venezuela export more oil and get more oil from western hemisphere countries. That goal is being achieved. 436 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 Congratulations to my @HudsonInstitute colleague @TomTugendhat on being named shadow foreign secretary in the UK. Tom will add depth and insight as well as wit to the British foreign policy debate. And he knows a thing or two about China, which will be useful. 4.2K views · 68 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 Trump thinks he has the upper hand in the Iran War. It’s an ugly, tricky and messy war and the endgame is anything but clear. Even so, Trump just might have a point. https://t.co/7PVroA6JRb 32.9K views · 263 likes · 43 reposts · 22 replies 31 Aug 2026 Vox populi vox Dei at least in this case. Hands off Pluto!! 3K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 Yesterday marked 20 years since Pluto was downgraded to a "dwarf planet" - however, when asked last year, 50% of Britons still held on to Pluto's former full-planet status, with only 21% considering it a dwarf planet https://t.co/5zh5j2MgkW 19.4K views · 48 likes · 6 reposts · 9 replies 25 Aug 2026 Kyiv in flames. Bond markets seething. This is what happens when the chickens come home to roost. Unsustainable entitlements, inadequate defense spending… eventually it starts to matter. https://t.co/Qx1knvdO2N 12K views · 94 likes · 22 reposts · 5 replies 24 Aug 2026 The chief remaining functions of the royal family appear to be a) attracting tourists and b) putting money into the hands of the tabloids either by losing money in lawsuits or selling papers. 5.4K views · 44 likes · 8 reposts · 5 replies 21 Aug 2026