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Zach Dorfman

@zachsdorfman · joined 08 Dec 2013

NOW: Washington Post. Past words in Foreign Policy, Politico, Axios, Yahoo News, the Atlantic, Rolling Stone and more. Email: dorfman.zach@proton.me

19 208Followers
4 394Following
72Posts total
1.1MViews 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 views39 025this account3 598median for 10K–100K
Reach, %203.17%this account11.59%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.46%this account1.38%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post39 0253 59810.8×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.0× audience11.59%17.5×
Engagement rate0.46%1.38%0.33×

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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

4K17 Aug
2.8K
671.1K19 Aug
324.5K20 Aug
39K
51K26 Aug
29.7K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.55%17 Aug
0.36%
0.46%19 Aug
0.13%20 Aug
1.11%
0.25%26 Aug
0.96%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.38%.

What the audience does

Likes43.7%3 576 in total
Reposts7.6%621 in total
Replies1.2%97 in total
Quotes1.0%84 in total
Bookmarks46.4%3 796 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

I’m thrilled to be joining the @washingtonpost’s national security team, whose work awes me on a regular basis. Can’t wait to get started. If you want to get in touch, I’m on Signal at “zsd.19”. 29.7K views · 229 likes · 29 reposts · 23 replies 26 Aug 2026 💪Excited to announce @zachsdorfman will be joining @washingtonpost's all-star National Security team to report on the intelligence community. He's written some of my favorite (and most jaw-droppingly sourced) stories and we're lucky to have him. Stay tuned for great things. http 51K views · 96 likes · 16 reposts · 7 replies 26 Aug 2026 Big exodus at Langley, per @wstrobel. The post-9/11 generation of intelligence officers is now exiting the stage. https://t.co/RhvO3cMOL3 39K views · 331 likes · 76 reposts · 17 replies 20 Aug 2026 This is such a wild story. 324.5K views · 414 likes · 19 reposts · 4 replies 20 Aug 2026 Ten years a former senior Pentagon official told me what I thought was an apocryphal story: American spies had saved Steve Jobs, and by extension, Apple. Tracking it down became a personal obsession and the starting point for my new book, Valley of Death. I'm thrilled to share 671.1K views · 2.5K likes · 477 reposts · 46 replies 19 Aug 2026 Also, very enjoyably, the cast of characters sits somewhere between Dr. Strangelove and the Star Wars cantina scene. 2.8K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 17 Aug 2026 There’s so much extraordinary and vivid reporting in @weinbergersa new book on the evolving nexus of Silicon Valley and the defense-industrial complex. https://t.co/TvPLzpYR2t 4K views · 18 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 17 Aug 2026

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