David D. Kirkpatrick ✓

@ddk_nyc · New York, NY · joined 17 Jan 2009

Journalist at The New Yorker. Ex-NYT. Author of “Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East.” daviddkirkpatrick@gmail.com

55 076Followers

2 751Following

21 048Posts total

352.4KViews on collected posts

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David D. Kirkpatrick ✓@ddk_nyc16 May

The mayor of New York is observing Nakba Day. 2.7K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

David D. Kirkpatrick ✓@ddk_nyc30 Mar

@ddk_nyc Unexplained detail: where did he pick up Mandarin? Japanese is both explained in your story and explainable as a casual hobby, but Mandarin is not. This requires extended focus. 1.6K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

David D. Kirkpatrick ✓@ddk_nyc30 Mar

@ddk_nyc Amazing report. Was there any information that you got about whether or not Iran head advanced at all in terms of its weaponization program i.e. developing an implosion device, or miniaturization, or was the Intel that he gathered exclusively related to enrichment and 18.8K views · 25 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

David D. Kirkpatrick ✓@ddk_nyc30 Mar

@ddk_nyc @Bing_Chris Why shouldn’t Iran have a bomb when Israel has a bomb? 1.6K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

David D. Kirkpatrick ✓@ddk_nyc30 Mar

This ex-spy helped stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon. And this article was among the most intense that I have ever reported: https://t.co/CZVlv5INvK 297.5K views · 1.5K likes · 357 reposts · 29 replies Open on X →

David D. Kirkpatrick ✓@ddk_nyc9 Feb

After the WSJ's blockbuster scoop about the UAE's $187 million pre-inauguration payment to Trump, let me re-post this article I wrote for the NYT about the UAE, its ruler, and his influence in DC: https://t.co/S4JHTeY8c0 18K views · 109 likes · 49 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

David D. Kirkpatrick ✓@ddk_nyc31 Jan

We updated The New Yorker's tally of Trump's presidential profits: https://t.co/ZbCAsfPYTG 6.6K views · 36 likes · 13 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

David D. Kirkpatrick ✓@ddk_nyc3 Sep 2025

Trying this again to find me on Bluesky: https://t.co/yrep5JOOYO 5.6K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

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

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18K9 Feb

297.5K30 Mar

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2.7K16 May

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

0.16%3 Sep

0.86%31 Jan

0.90%9 Feb

0.66%30 Mar

0.81%

0.14%

1.07%

0.45%16 May

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes44.1%1 744 in total

Reposts10.6%419 in total

Replies1.3%51 in total

Quotes0.8%33 in total

Bookmarks43.1%1 704 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.

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