Douglas Alexander

@D_G_Alexander · Scottish, British, European. · joined 19 Feb 2010

Member of Parliament for the Lothian East Constituency. personal account.

42 944Followers

2 155Following

6 883Posts total

604.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views15 983this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %37.22%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.43%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	15 983	2 896	5.52×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	37.22%	9.51%	3.91×
Engagement rate	0.43%	1.56%	0.28×

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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

8.7K29 Aug

39.1K

16K31 Aug

334.4K

11.8K

159.9K2 Sep

32.4K

1.5K3 Sep

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

0.40%29 Aug

0.29%

0.44%31 Aug

0.23%

2.73%

0.43%2 Sep

0.65%

0.39%3 Sep

0.68%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes61.0%1 408 in total

Reposts11.2%259 in total

Replies14.2%327 in total

Quotes10.4%241 in total

Bookmarks3.2%73 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

Great to be at West Lothian College this morning to release these allocations of £52m of UK Government funds to support local economic development here in Scotland. 1K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 📢 The UK Government releases the first £52m from the £140m Scottish Local Growth Fund to Edinburgh & South East Scotland, Glasgow, Tay Cities, Ayrshire & Forth Valley. @D_G_Alexander announced the Fund in January and now it's putting decisions in the hands of local leade 1.5K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 There’s consistency….and then there’s being consistently wrong. That CCHQ think it’s helpful to the Shadow Chancellor that in 1997 he was peddling ‘demon eyes’, ‘reds under the bed’ nonsense about New Labour is simply laughable. Wrong then. Wrong with Liz Truss. Wrong now. 32.4K views · 172 likes · 35 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Experience counts. So does consistency. Our new Shadow Chancellor, @griffitha, has both. He has more business experience than Labour’s entire front bench. And he’s been calling Labour out for decades. Here he is taking Tony Blair to task almost 30 years ago 👇 https://t.co/3FpIQ 159.9K views · 477 likes · 90 reposts · 89 replies 02 Sep 2026 There are some endorsements you REALLY don’t want if your job is to try to reestablish the shattered economic credibility of your party. 👇 11.8K views · 251 likes · 50 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 Congratulations to Andrew Griffith on becoming Shadow Chancellor. The economic establishment of the last three decades has failed Britain. They must be taken on. 334.4K views · 426 likes · 55 reposts · 208 replies 31 Aug 2026 As the UK Parliament returns from recess tomorrow there are Scots at every level of our Labour Government working hard to deliver change. https://t.co/5WoogbZpwK 16K views · 24 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 There’s a nation beyond Holyrood: It’s called Scotland. Andy’s agenda for decentralising power and strengthening the economic prosperity of communities is resonant & relevant in every part of the U.K. 39.1K views · 46 likes · 16 reposts · 1 replies 29 Aug 2026 Empowering local communities across Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Lothian East MP Douglas Alexander is calling for Scottish councils and local communities to be given the resources, financial tools, and freedoms they need to deliver directly for their areas, backing wider UK devolutio 8.7K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 26 replies 29 Aug 2026