John Simpson ✓
@JohnSimpsonNews · Live in UK, travel anywhere · joined 10 Feb 2016
Broadcaster & author, trying to make sense of a mad world. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on @BBCTwo, BBC World etc. Instagram @johnsimpsonnews.
230 949Followers
1 264Following
19 998Posts total
2.4MViews on collected posts
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@JohnSimpsonNews https://t.co/lQOMrfqHCt
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@JohnSimpsonNews This is what a patriot looks like. https://t.co/qas1WFvsby
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@JohnSimpsonNews People really need to read more books and less GB and Fox News.
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Anti-immigrant protesters have been directing abuse at Britain’s leading blindness charity, the RNIB, accusing it of helping small boat migrants. They mixed it up with the RNLI. Reminiscent of the time in 2000 when a mob daubed ‘paedo’ on the office of a paediatrician in Wales.
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@JohnSimpsonNews I have found that any one of Anthony Trollope's books is amazingly engrossing. You wouldn't think the problems of bishops and dukes in 1860 would be so interesting, but the characters act like people, not caricatures. We are the same people now, just with differ
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@JohnSimpsonNews My husband reads every day and always has. He has recently been diagnosed with a rare dementia -behavioural variant FrontoTemporal Dementia. There is nothing he could have done to prevent it. Please don't spread nonsense about how and why dementia affects certa
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@JohnSimpsonNews Of course closing public libraries is no help at all. I relied on borrowing books as a child as we didn't have any in our home.
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From today’s Times: ‘Researchers at the University of Cambridge said that regardless of “what or how we read”, sitting down with a book is linked to improved health and problem solving. Benefits include lowering stress and reducing the risk of dementia, and span all types of
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Oh dear. I would so like to think that Jared Kushner was a wise, balanced, well-informed intermediary who could be relied on to deal evenhandedly with Israel and Hamas, and with Russia and Ukraine. I’m afraid his response here doesn’t give me much hope about US approaches to
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Delightful ‘Times’ piece about the English Sunday league goalkeeper who could be the next monarch in a Ugandan kingdom. Long live the Shotstopper!
https://t.co/OBEWlyD5YH
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During the siege of Sarajevo I came to knew and often interviewed Gen. Ratko Mladic, whose coffin people have been kissing in Belgrade. He was a brutal man with no apparent spark of humanity. His trial at The Hague, which I reported, was an important moment in modern history.
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US special envoy Jared Kushner said on Sunday that Gaza was “built by NGOs and terrorists”.
He added that Gaza's Board of Peace was working on a plan to demilitarise the strip but faced “political issues in Israel” where a “crazy election” made leaders “a little irrational”. htt
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Springboks vs All Blacks was a magnificent watch. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time in a packed Irish bar in Nice. Boks not perfect but deserved the win. An absolute master-class for N hemisphere teams…
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Are the Falklands under threat from Argentina? Verbally, yes: Pres Milei is facing strong opposition from even further right in Argentine politics. The real concern for the UK is Pres Trump’s willingness to go along with it.
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@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.
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@JohnSimpsonNews Is this your first day as a journalist, John?
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@JohnSimpsonNews Because it’s about ethnic cleansing and taking land John.
You numbnut
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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
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Against accounts of the same size
14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views19 534this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %8.46%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %3.67%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 19 534 | 5 983 | 3.26× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 8.46% | 1.49% | 5.68× |
| Engagement rate | 3.67% | 0.93% | 3.95× |
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
31.7K5 Sep
42.2K
183.7K7 Sep
122.8K
7.3K
151.8K
73.2K15 Sep
216
1K
382
161.6K16 Sep
3.4K
3.4K
2.9K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
3.64%5 Sep
2.74%
0.11%7 Sep
4.20%
0.64%
1.22%
4.27%15 Sep
3.70%
2.01%
2.88%
4.68%16 Sep
6.59%
6.16%
7.72%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes75.6%39 790 in total
Reposts15.3%8 063 in total
Replies5.0%2 604 in total
Quotes1.2%607 in total
Bookmarks2.9%1 539 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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