John Simpson ✓

@JohnSimpsonNews

Broadcaster & author, trying to make sense of a mad world. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on @BBCTwo, BBC World etc. Instagram @johnsimpsonnews.

230 382Followers

1 254Following

19 854Posts total

1.6MViews on collected posts

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

1.5M19 Mar

22.7K

69.9K

38.4K

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

1.50%19 Mar

6.02%

5.06%

6.42%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes74.0%23 064 in total

Reposts15.8%4 925 in total

Replies5.6%1 738 in total

Quotes1.2%372 in total

Bookmarks3.5%1 085 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

@JohnSimpsonNews @NasserIbnHamad You actually do get it. But you’re pretending not because you don’t want to lose your job or get a phone call telling you to delete another tweet. 38.4K views · 2.3K likes · 168 reposts · 12 replies 19 Mar 2026 · Open on X →

@JohnSimpsonNews Is this your first day as a journalist, John? 69.9K views · 3.3K likes · 168 reposts · 30 replies 19 Mar 2026 · Open on X →

@JohnSimpsonNews Because it’s about ethnic cleansing and taking land John. You numbnut 22.7K views · 1.3K likes · 15 reposts · 8 replies 19 Mar 2026 · Open on X →

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with 1.5M views · 16.1K likes · 4.6K reposts · 1.7K replies 19 Mar 2026 · Open on X →

Growth & engagement

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