Ben Goldsmith ✓

@BenGoldsmith · Bruton, England · joined 28 Apr 2010

“The idea of wilderness needs no defense, only defenders.” ~ Edward Abbey (Views are my own)

155 245Followers

7 090Following

40 292Posts total

1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views4 008this account12 273median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.58%this account3.89%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.85%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 008	12 273	0.33×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.58%	3.89%	0.66×
Engagement rate	0.85%	1.25%	0.68×

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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

386.3K29 Aug

5.4K

608.9K30 Aug

23.4K31 Aug

4K2 Sep

2.7K3 Sep

592

252

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.32%29 Aug

0.85%

0.38%30 Aug

0.67%31 Aug

2.45%2 Sep

0.74%3 Sep

2.70%

1.14%

0.40%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes73.3%5 690 in total

Reposts18.6%1 443 in total

Replies6.5%508 in total

Quotes1.4%108 in total

Bookmarks0.1%11 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.

Latest posts

The return of wolves to California is wonderful news. California will be a much safer place for them than the western states above. 252 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Rural campaigners fighting against new nature-based income sources for farmers are doing upland farming communities a huge disservice. The idea that sheep, sheep and nothing but sheep can keep the upland rural economy afloat is disastrously shortsighted. 2K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 NEW: A gray wolf has been confirmed in Lake County, bringing California's wolf comeback to the Coast Range (and not far from the Bay Area) https://t.co/gIKWFq2QQ7 592 views · 12 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Tim Bonner's latest piece for the Critic examines how the Johnson years’ embrace of animal rights did lasting damage to the Conservatives’ relationship with the countryside... https://t.co/u2Mz1Mr49N 2.7K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 “The are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places” Rip Wendell Berry https://t.co/hlaloJuHhR 4K views · 80 likes · 18 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Latest in the war on nature - a precious striped hyaena stoned to death by Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank. For what? This kind of thing happens to wildlife in every corner of the world, every day. What is wrong with humans? 23.4K views · 116 likes · 17 reposts · 21 replies 31 Aug 2026 🇪🇭🇱🇧🇮🇱 Despite the fact that this Lebanese striped hyena looks like it walked straight off the set of Constantine during a nightmare sequence, it didn’t appear to be harming anyone. In fact, it looked like it needed medical aid… but instead, it was STONED TO DEATH by residents 608.9K views · 1.5K likes · 282 reposts · 415 replies 30 Aug 2026 The evil of the Iranian theocratic regime (and its proxies Hamas and Hezbollah) cannot be overstated. It’s profoundly illuminating and really very troubling quite how many degenerates in the West have failed this moral litmus test. 5.4K views · 35 likes · 2 reposts · 9 replies 29 Aug 2026 As if killing tens of thousands in cold blood and executing innocent protestors at the rate of 4 or 5 a day was not enough, a 43 year old mother of two has been sentenced to death by hanging for simply filming a retail store on fire during the January anti-regime protests. 386.3K views · 3.9K likes · 1.1K reposts · 61 replies 29 Aug 2026