Al Pinkerton MP

@AlPinkerton · Surrey Heath · joined 13 Jul 2009

Liberal Democrat MP for Surrey Heath. Interests in geopolitics, international border & territorial disputes, U.K. Overseas Territories.

10 623Followers

5 558Following

23 195Posts total

73.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Al Pinkerton MP@AlPinkerton18 Sep

“The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.” What did America’s Founding Fathers understand in 1776 that Trump fails to grasp today? And he lectures Europe about “civilisational erasure”. 311 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Al Pinkerton MP@AlPinkerton18 Sep

BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has banned CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House. Our US correspondent @jamesmatthewsky says this is "a significant escalation" in terms of "restricting the freedom of the press". Latest: https://t.co/J6LAyBUZst 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

2:56

48.3K views · 380 likes · 130 reposts · 105 replies Open on X →

Al Pinkerton MP@AlPinkerton5 Sep

Ah yes, that great tradition of the Fourth Estate: fearlessly holding power to account. Unless, of course, you know the people involved, think they’re splendid chaps and would rather explain away their conduct instead. 10.9K views · 412 likes · 85 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Al Pinkerton MP@AlPinkerton3 Sep

Every single day, Britain is under attack. Not with missiles or tanks, but with lies, manipulation and disinformation. The battlefield is on our phones, in our politics and across social media. And all of us are part of the defence. https://t.co/fO5OSKatNk

1:19

1.9K views · 69 likes · 25 reposts · 29 replies Open on X →

Al Pinkerton MP@AlPinkerton29 Jul

The best account that I’ve read on the lottery that is adult social care in the UK. 1.5K views · 9 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Al Pinkerton MP@AlPinkerton30 Apr 2025

Published and promoted by the Surrey Heath Liberal Democrats, Station House, 1 Pembroke Broadway, Camberley, GU15 3XD. 10K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 889this account995median for 10K–100K

Reach, %17.78%this account3.92%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.57%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 889	995	1.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	17.78%	3.92%	4.54×
Engagement rate	2.57%	1.54%	1.67×

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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

10K30 Apr

1.5K29 Jul

1.9K3 Sep

10.9K5 Sep

48.3K18 Sep

311

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.12%30 Apr

0.78%29 Jul

6.56%3 Sep

4.63%5 Sep

1.31%18 Sep

2.57%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes65.9%883 in total

Reposts18.1%243 in total

Replies11.3%151 in total

Quotes1.5%20 in total

Bookmarks3.2%43 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.