David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

Prof of Comms at Sacred Heart Uni, Tokyo. Ex-correspondent with The Economist, Independent, Irish Times etc. bsky: https://t.co/vOYL3eNbdz

7 466Followers

983Following

8 540Posts total

381.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views11 410this account5 065median for under 10K

Reach, %152.83%this account349.30%median for under 10K

Engagement, %3.52%this account1.10%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	11 410	5 065	2.25×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	152.83%	3.5× audience	0.44×
Engagement rate	3.52%	1.10%	3.20×

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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

357.3K1 Sep

5.7K

17.2K

1.8K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.09%1 Sep

2.25%

6.64%

4.79%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.10%.

What the audience does

Likes69.1%4 007 in total

Reposts17.4%1 007 in total

Replies2.8%161 in total

Quotes1.4%83 in total

Bookmarks9.3%540 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

@DavidMcNeill3 You're all going back, don't get comfy https://t.co/B41d1mVy4X 1.8K views · 83 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 @DavidMcNeill3 Not wanting to be overrun by insane leftists and Muslims = xenophobia. Good one. 17.2K views · 1.1K likes · 21 reposts · 19 replies 01 Sep 2026 @DavidMcNeill3 The person she hates most is herself. She probably flogs herself every night for her sin out of self-loathing. She hates herself for not being “pure” Japanese, whatever the hell that is. And takes all that frustration and hatred out on foreigners who dare to live i 5.7K views · 112 likes · 4 reposts · 9 replies 01 Sep 2026 Japan’s minister in charge of harmoniously coexisting with foreigners seems to embody an increasingly xenophobic national mood. My piece with Karyn Nishimura. https://t.co/463bs95ZEy https://t.co/tVXlIEKA9H 357.3K views · 2.7K likes · 981 reposts · 132 replies 01 Sep 2026