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Zach Despart

@zachdespart · Texas · joined 18 Feb 2015

Investigative reporter @propublica @texastribune. Alum @houstonchron & @uvmvermont. NY native. Dalmatian dad.

15 530Followers
1 793Following
18 404Posts total
3.1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views31 613this account2 392median for 10K–100K
Reach, %203.56%this account7.18%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.84%this account1.50%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post31 6132 39213.2×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.0× audience7.18%28.4×
Engagement rate0.84%1.50%0.56×

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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

1.9M24 Jul
17.4K5 Aug
69.3K7 Aug
10.3K
1.1M12 Aug
31.6K
39.7K25 Aug
3.2K26 Aug

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.27%24 Jul
0.85%5 Aug
6.53%7 Aug
1.42%
0.30%12 Aug
0.65%
0.09%25 Aug
0.84%26 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.50%.

What the audience does

Likes74.4%26 253 in total
Reposts13.1%4 638 in total
Replies3.9%1 367 in total
Quotes1.1%400 in total
Bookmarks7.5%2 638 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

This story gets written by the @HoustonChron once a decade or so because this system is so dyfunctional. Sad to see so little change. 3.2K views · 22 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 26 Aug 2026 New = Some Harris County court-appointed lawyers handle hundreds of felony cases while earning millions https://t.co/LDA6QS3JgJ via @houstonchron @DegroodMatt @Thelastlomax 39.7K views · 27 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 25 Aug 2026 You're forgetting Houston in August 31.6K views · 193 likes · 5 reposts · 8 replies 12 Aug 2026 The best US cities to be in by month January: Vegas February: San Diego March: Kansas City April: New York May: DC June: Nashville July: Chicago August: SF September: LA October: Austin November: Scottsdale December: Miami 1.1M views · 2.3K likes · 106 reposts · 605 replies 12 Aug 2026 Paxton is right that Talarico has dodged questions about his voter registration & history. But Paxton has been dodging our questions since June about our finding that he has voted 6x using an address where his wife said he no longer lives. 10.3K views · 125 likes · 14 reposts · 8 replies 07 Aug 2026 Talarico’s been spoon-fed softballs by the media. While I'm taking questions around the state this week, he's refusing to because he’d have to answer for his election fraud. https://t.co/xqB2WY7ceP 69.3K views · 3K likes · 913 reposts · 552 replies 07 Aug 2026 Texas state Rep. James Talarico voted in five elections using his parents’ address after purchasing a home for himself nearby, a practice that may have violated state voting laws, @kaylaguo_ and I found. https://t.co/FbfeBctdL9 17.4K views · 75 likes · 26 reposts · 40 replies 05 Aug 2026 A few months ago I noticed something unusual: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is increasingly outsourcing big cases to private lawyers — even though his office has 700+ attorneys in-house, with several specialized divisions. So we dug in... 1.9M views · 20.5K likes · 3.6K reposts · 152 replies 24 Jul 2025

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