Sadanand Dhume ✓

@dhume · Washington, DC · joined 16 Jun 2009

CFR Senior Fellow, WSJ Columnist. Author of My Friend the Fanatic and Tinderbox.

172 901Followers

2 198Following

66 464Posts total

372.7KViews on collected posts

Ultimi post

Sadanand Dhume ✓@dhume3 Sep

Nobody told me that recording an audiobook was so much work—or so much fun. https://t.co/9Mg1WYHXYM 3.8K views · 26 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Sadanand Dhume ✓@dhume31 Aug

Dignity is one of those strange things that are hard to define, but that people instinctively recognize when they encounter it. In the cacophony of Indian TV news, Naghma Sahar stood out for her calm professionalism and quiet dignity. She will be missed. 39.4K views · 151 likes · 7 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Sadanand Dhume ✓@dhume31 Aug

@RichardHanania: “It’s not news that stupid people are stupid. But one feature of populist movements is that the attitudes, beliefs, and aesthetics of more excitable and less thoughtful members of the public end up in control.” [On the failure of the tech right.] 4.5K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sadanand Dhume ✓@dhume28 Aug

Fine to make this point, @ConstantinoX. But India’s image problem is not confined to America. In 2011, 71% of Australians had a favorable view of India. It’s now down to 44%. A lot of folks have responded to my piece with some version of “we don’t care” or “public opinion 74.9K views · 68 likes · 13 reposts · 49 replies Open on X →

Sadanand Dhume ✓@dhume28 Aug

Much discussion about this piece by @dhume, whose writings always provoke thought. Worth considering an alternative: America has a global perspective problem. 38K views · 82 likes · 4 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Sadanand Dhume ✓@dhume27 Aug

Mounds of rotting garbage, trains overflowing with commuters, half-drowned school buses on flooded roads. The age of social media has been brutal for India’s global image. [My take] https://t.co/kLeYWD6xGy https://t.co/q8hvlJlM61 160.4K views · 1K likes · 264 reposts · 41 replies Open on X →

Sadanand Dhume ✓@dhume26 Aug

Vivek @wadhwa is a well known voice in Silicon Valley. Worth paying attention to his views on how years of unscrupulous gaming of the H-1B program contributed to a wider backlash against Indian immigrants in America. 51.7K views · 151 likes · 11 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

7 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 100K–1M follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.

Visualizzazioni mediane39 388questo account5 983mediana per 100K–1M

Copertura, %22.78%questo account1.49%mediana per 100K–1M

Interazione, %0.36%questo account0.93%mediana per 100K–1M

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 100K–1M	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	39 388	5 983	6.58×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	22.78%	1.49%	15.3×
Tasso di interazione	0.36%	0.93%	0.39×

Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →

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

51.7K26 Aug

160.4K27 Aug

38K28 Aug

74.9K

4.5K31 Aug

39.4K

3.8K3 Sep

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

0.36%26 Aug

0.89%27 Aug

0.25%28 Aug

0.20%

0.22%31 Aug

0.44%

0.85%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes63.9%1 508 in total

Reposts12.8%302 in total

Replies5.8%137 in total

Quotes5.2%122 in total

Bookmarks12.4%292 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.