Heidi Blake

@HeidilBlake · UK · joined 30 Jul 2008

Investigative reporter @NewYorker. Host of Blood Relatives and The Runaway Princesses with @InTheDarkTNY. Author of From Russia With Blood and The Ugly Game.

22 544Followers

1 612Following

3 881Posts total

1.6MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake19 Jul

Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami on new charges of rape, trafficking, and child pornography. Here's my @NewYorker investigation into how they built a vast empire of sexual exploitation in plain sight. https://t.co/pLE92i8F4Q 26.3K views · 444 likes · 195 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake8 Jun

@HeidilBlake @Dixie202021 Anyone who defends this guy is just as bad. He’s a monster. https://t.co/ICsMLGrpSm

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33.7K views · 481 likes · 80 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake8 Jun

@JamieTahsin @Matt_A_Shea @_mirceabarbu Also to @lobsterlooker for sharing the War Room chat logs; an extraordinary window into the heart of the Tates' world. 39K views · 476 likes · 39 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake8 Jun

And a big shout-out to @JamieTahsin, @Matt_A_Shea, @_mirceabarbu, Victor Ilie and Luiza Vasiliu, and others who have reported trenchantly on the Tates for years. 44.3K views · 559 likes · 48 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake8 Jun

Enormous thanks to The New Yorker's extraordinary fact checkers for meticulously verifying every word of this complex story. 63.2K views · 912 likes · 57 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake8 Jun

For the past 9 months, I've been investigating Andrew Tate's empire of sexual exploitation — drawing on thousands of private messages and sealed court files, as well as interviews with the Tates, their associates & more than a dozen alleged victims. Here's what I found: 1.3M views · 7K likes · 2.8K reposts · 221 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake22 May

Since we released Blood Relatives, revealing huge flaws in the evidence used to imprison Jeremy Bamber for four decades, Wakefield Prison have barred him from speaking to journalists—and now I'm told he's been banned from talking to his campaign team too. This is an outrage and h

5.6K views · 50 likes · 22 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake28 Oct 2025

It's been an honour to work with @InTheDarkTNY to investigate the murders at Whitehouse Farm. Our new series, Blood Relatives, reveals shocking truths about the evidence used to imprison Jeremy Bamber and raises urgent questions for the UK justice system. https://t.co/cygZh60VHZ

30.6K views · 57 likes · 16 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake21 Jul 2025

@HeidilBlake @NewYorker I read the second part of this story, only now. If they were been men, all the world world asked for Justice. But they were only women, like Latifa and Shamsa, and nobody cared, nobody cares. 33 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake11 Oct 2024

@HeidilBlake @NewYorker This isnt uncommon in Saudi Arabia, but they pretend to be our allies so we pretend we don't see... 354 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Heidi Blake@HeidilBlake10 Oct 2024

My latest for @NewYorker. Four Saudi princesses were kept drugged and imprisoned for almost two decades after challenging the regime. A Texan doctor who tried to free them speaks out about the life-threatening brutality they faced. https://t.co/zBxBYAr6gl 82.3K views · 322 likes · 146 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

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1 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views26 267this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %116.51%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.55%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	26 267	924	28.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	116.51%	3.62%	32.2×
Engagement rate	2.55%	1.52%	1.67×

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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

82.3K10 Oct

35411 Oct

3321 Jul

30.6K28 Oct

5.6K22 May

1.3M8 Jun

63.2K

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39K

33.7K

26.3K19 Jul

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Engagement rate per post

0.61%10 Oct

0.85%11 Oct

0.00%21 Jul

0.28%28 Oct

1.49%22 May

0.80%8 Jun

1.55%

1.38%

1.34%

1.71%

2.55%19 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes58.3%10 293 in total

Reposts19.2%3 392 in total

Replies1.7%298 in total

Quotes1.3%230 in total

Bookmarks19.5%3 449 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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