jonn elledge is mainly on bluesky

@JonnElledge · east end innit · joined 25 Feb 2009

author, columnist, bestselling author (seriously). @newstatesman @theneweuropean @ohgodwhatnowpod. barely here these days, fewer nazis on bluesky.

51 248Followers

6 465Following

211 565Posts total

21.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 697this account1 637median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.21%this account5.01%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.36%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 697	1 637	2.26×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.21%	5.01%	1.44×
Engagement rate	0.36%	1.81%	0.20×

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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

2K15 Jul

8.3K3 Sep

5K4 Sep

3.7K

2.3K5 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.36%15 Jul

0.57%3 Sep

2.40%4 Sep

0.27%

0.26%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.

What the audience does

Likes78.4%171 in total

Reposts5.5%12 in total

Replies3.7%8 in total

Bookmarks12.4%27 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

"I was expecting to have fun. What I was not expecting was that there’d be a moment that felt akin to how I imagine religious people experience faith, in which I stood looking at the magnitude of creation and felt genuinely overcome by emotion." https://t.co/Rlocuw6s1A 2.3K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 'I am, as I write, on the GWR equivalent of the last helicopter out of Saigon. People are sitting on luggage. Toddlers are sitting on people. A woman is explaining to friends exactly why she broke it off with someone referred to only as “pizza boy”...' https://t.co/K1SOOLHEzn 3.7K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 Feels like Farage's outriders are in a similar place psychologically to Johnson's in 2022: they've got so used to stuff not cutting through, they've convinced themselves it's a law of nature. Maybe this won't cut through either. But it *could*. 5K views · 108 likes · 10 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 extremely funny response to a situation in which the *best* case scenario is "the boss gets away with it and you're thrown under the boss" 8.3K views · 45 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Swinging back into this mostly dead account to note that my new book 31 Inventions That Built Our World is published in SIX WEEKS' TIME. It's a history of the places where we live, taking in sewers, streetcars and skyscrapers, please buy! https://t.co/UhWLSf8hQY 2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 15 Jul 2026