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Edward Luce ✓

@EdwardGLuce · Washington DC · joined 25 Oct 2011

Associate Ed at the FT, US-based writer/columnist. Author of Zbig, America's Cold War Prophet. On the Economist, Foreign Affairs, FT & Wapo's best books of 2025

137 996Followers
2 140Following
19 259Posts total
537.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Just to make it clear, Wapo still does great reporting and still has David Ignatius and a handful of other great writers on its oped page. But its Bezos-pleasing editorial line is beyond parody. 24.7K views · 535 likes · 29 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →
@EdwardGLuce @prairiecentrist This is such a tone deaf take on where we are at with the U.S. Clearly Trump came into his second term with a belief he is king of the world and Canada is his vassal state. 6.7K views · 395 likes · 2 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? https://t.co/2ZjNrZejv6 423.3K views · 3.2K likes · 413 reposts · 488 replies Open on X →
Late summer in England https://t.co/eCYfGRGPjj 4.5K views · 83 likes · 4 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
Excellent piece. 29.7K views · 107 likes · 15 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
"Every AI figure has at one time or another speculated about immortality or multiplied life expectancy. I, for one, do not relish the idea of having to listen to them after I turn 150." Gift link: https://t.co/lJCCHOAskG 5K views · 32 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
“Our species still has scope to shape its own future but that window is closing fast.” My column on why the American public’s Luddite turn on AI is entirely rational. https://t.co/Dy8rkqjHzc 19.3K views · 58 likes · 12 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
Inescapably stupid 24.7K views · 509 likes · 40 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views22 028this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %15.96%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.52%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post22 0285 9833.68×
Reach (views ÷ followers)15.96%1.49%10.7×
Engagement rate1.52%0.93%1.63×

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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

24.7K11 Aug
19.3K18 Aug
5K
29.7K22 Aug
4.5K1 Sep
423.3K17 Sep
6.7K
24.7K

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

2.27%11 Aug
0.41%18 Aug
0.83%
0.43%22 Aug
2.05%1 Sep
0.98%17 Sep
6.04%
2.34%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes77.3%4 880 in total
Reposts8.3%522 in total
Replies8.5%534 in total
Quotes1.8%113 in total
Bookmarks4.2%265 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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