Gustav C. Gressel

@GresselGustav · Berlin, Deutschland · joined 18 Mar 2014

Security and defense expert | PhD in Strategic Studies | NATO, EU, Eastern Europe, and global security affairs

47 351Followers

1 700Following

16 999Posts total

149.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Gustav C. Gressel@GresselGustav21 Sep

In an election where competition was banned and the debate curtailed, the regime party gets 35%. 10.5K views · 164 likes · 36 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Gustav C. Gressel@GresselGustav19 Sep

Brillant. Should be replayed every day. 40.3K views · 476 likes · 164 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Gustav C. Gressel@GresselGustav11 Sep

Yours truly, why 🇪🇺 is bad at deterring 🇷🇺 "hybrid" attacks and how to increase our leverage. https://t.co/TQ6KkIYeNB 28.5K views · 247 likes · 73 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Gustav C. Gressel@GresselGustav10 Sep

Vielen Dank für Deine unermüdliche Arbeit @HS_Akechi ! 4.5K views · 59 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gustav C. Gressel@GresselGustav9 Sep

@RKiesewetter Bis die neuen Videos fertig sind, vielleicht nochmal zBsp diesen herausragenden Vortrag von @GresselGustav hören? https://t.co/dRI0UtJDXZ 6.6K views · 19 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Gustav C. Gressel@GresselGustav9 Aug 2025

I declined interviews on the Trump-Putin nonsense. I don't want to speculate on rumours and I don't think it will deliver substance. However I created my first #substack text on what challenges lie ahead for 🇪🇺 supporting 🇺🇦 alone: https://t.co/b6kF3hn3pR 59K views · 527 likes · 114 reposts · 27 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views10 518this account1 015median for 10K–100K

Reach, %22.21%this account3.95%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.50%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	10 518	1 015	10.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	22.21%	3.95%	5.62×
Engagement rate	1.50%	1.54%	0.97×

Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →

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

59K9 Aug

6.6K9 Sep

4.5K10 Sep

28.5K11 Sep

40.3K19 Sep

10.5K21 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.15%9 Aug

0.39%9 Sep

1.50%10 Sep

1.17%11 Sep

1.64%19 Sep

1.94%21 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes66.0%1 492 in total

Reposts17.8%401 in total

Replies2.3%53 in total

Quotes1.0%23 in total

Bookmarks12.8%290 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.