Kenny Farquharson

@KennyFarq · Edinburgh · joined 20 Feb 2009

Columnist with @thetimes in Scotland. Editor of The Jaggy Thistle substack. Orwell Fellow. I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king.

43 175Followers

13 092Following

92 455Posts total

51.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Kenny Farquharson@KennyFarq14 Sep

Important to note that today’s summit in Cardiff was of nationalist party leaders, not nationalist first ministers. As I keep pointing out, NI FM cannot decide anything without DFM approval. And DFM is from DUP, which last time I checked was kinda fond of the Union. 3.9K views · 40 likes · 8 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Kenny Farquharson@KennyFarq13 Sep

Just reading these names makes me happy. 12.7K views · 30 likes · 5 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Kenny Farquharson@KennyFarq10 Sep

Amid all the hoo-ha about indyref triggers, a word in praise of @ChrisLawSNP who, unprompted and unbidden, took the initiative to press the case for the Irish border model for Scotland, even though it was not SNP party policy. 3.4K views · 26 likes · 3 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Kenny Farquharson@KennyFarq10 Sep

Me reading every single Twitter notification. https://t.co/4OAr768vNR

1.2K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Kenny Farquharson@KennyFarq28 Mar

@KennyFarq Nope. We don't. You don't believe in Scotland AS a fully enabled country, so I'll park any chatter from you around Scottish culture etc. - given you're happy to abandon it on the alter of a deeply ill Anglo-state. 44 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kenny Farquharson@KennyFarq22 Oct 2025

To visit The Jaggy Thistle just click this link: https://t.co/KZcXdQrFOW 600 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kenny Farquharson@KennyFarq22 Oct 2025

If you enjoy my work on Twitter you might like a project I have called The Jaggy Thistle. It's a deep dive into Scottish politics and Scottish culture. There's a link in my Twitter bio. I explain more in this short video. https://t.co/X1NeyfbyZy

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29.3K views · 17 likes · 2 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views3 626this account988median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.40%this account3.86%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.13%this account1.53%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 626	988	3.67×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.40%	3.86%	2.18×
Engagement rate	1.13%	1.53%	0.74×

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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

29.3K22 Oct

600

4428 Mar

1.2K10 Sep

3.4K

12.7K13 Sep

3.9K14 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.09%22 Oct

0.17%

6.82%28 Mar

1.16%10 Sep

1.10%

0.31%13 Sep

1.59%14 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.53%.

What the audience does

Likes66.5%129 in total

Reposts9.8%19 in total

Replies17.5%34 in total

Bookmarks6.2%12 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.