AndrewSparrow ✓

@AndrewSparrow · London · joined 08 Aug 2008

I write the Guardian's Politics Live blog - news from Westminster as it happens, with analysis, all the best quotes and key links to relevant blogs/sources

71 464Followers

1 576Following

33 284Posts total

258.8KViews on collected posts

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AndrewSparrow ✓@AndrewSparrow14 Jul

Great read - well worth your time 15.1K views · 2 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

AndrewSparrow ✓@AndrewSparrow14 Jul

NEW: My big cover story on ‘No 10’ North • Aim to get it up and running “as quickly as possible” • Plans to restructure No 10 more broadly • FDA’s Dave Penman warns Burnham splitting his time could “cause restrictions” (“Him looking people in the eye is how things will 62.7K views · 69 likes · 20 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

AndrewSparrow ✓@AndrewSparrow6 Jun

This is excellent - well worth your time 4.9K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

AndrewSparrow ✓@AndrewSparrow22 May

This is excellent - well worth reading in full 4.7K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

AndrewSparrow ✓@AndrewSparrow3 Dec 2025

Do read this - it’s excellent 13.4K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

AndrewSparrow ✓@AndrewSparrow3 Dec 2025

New post just out: Six lessons from the 2024 election. And what they mean for the next one. Covering: Labour's fatal misunderstanding about why they won; effects of a more fragmented system; changes in media/polling. (£/free trial) https://t.co/3rj1q8n0vz 112.3K views · 43 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

AndrewSparrow ✓@AndrewSparrow2 Oct 2025

This is excellent 2.6K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

AndrewSparrow ✓@AndrewSparrow1 Oct 2025

It’s a perfect script, the prime minister under pressure pulls off a conference speech to silence his critics, his rival slinks away chastened. But is it true? Not really. Our read tonight, on the conference Cassandras With @PippaCrerar @syalrajeev https://t.co/WHx64w9xi6 43.1K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 6 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

43.1K1 Oct

2.6K2 Oct

112.3K3 Dec

13.4K

4.7K22 May

4.9K6 Jun

62.7K14 Jul

15.1K

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

0.07%1 Oct

0.12%2 Oct

0.05%3 Dec

0.05%

0.06%22 May

0.10%6 Jun

0.17%14 Jul

0.05%

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

What the audience does

Likes65.2%150 in total

Reposts16.1%37 in total

Replies10.4%24 in total

Quotes5.2%12 in total

Bookmarks3.0%7 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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