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Michael McFaul Twitter (X) Account Stats

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Stanford, CaliforniaAccount age: 14 years (joined January 2012)x.com

Michael McFaul is on Twitter (X) as @McFaul, with 888,394 followers and 144,428 posts. A typical post draws 216 interactions, an engagement rate of 0.024% per follower. It has been on X since January 2012, an account age of 14 years.

Followers
888K
Growth (7d)
-
Following
2.5K
Influence
1.9K
Posts
144K~26.7/day
Likes given
46K
Media posts
5.3K
Follower ratio
350:1

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.024%
of 888K followers
Per impression
0.89%
24K views on a typical post
Reach
2.73%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
216
interactions (median)
Saved
0.021%
5 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.4/day
active 33% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 216 interactions against 888K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 64 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 20,182 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 24K times each, and 0.89% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.73% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline.

Measured over 64 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #china, #freeminzin, #us.

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Follower growth

2026-06-23+0 over 2 days2026-06-24

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Bio

Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.

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