Simon Kuper

@KuperSimon · Paris · joined 20 Nov 2011

@FT writer. Now increasingly at @simonkuper.bsky.social. Latest books: World Cup Fever, and my memoir of modern Paris, Impossible City

84 857Followers

335Following

14 839Posts total

256.9KViews on collected posts

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Simon Kuper@KuperSimon14 Sep

Just one thing on the law of genocide. There's a widespread false belief (see tweet below) that it has to entail an attempt to kill the *whole* population. It doesn't. Bit below is from me in @FT last year https://t.co/zjqrR4ldE8

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Simon Kuper@KuperSimon14 Sep

@KuperSimon It could if there were an attempt to kill the entire population. That’s so far from the truth re Gaza that all such talk can be laughed at. Day 1 Netanyahu narrowed the terms of response to a war on Hamas (not Gaza as a whole population) and that’s the terms they’ve 15.9K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Simon Kuper@KuperSimon14 Sep

I am really surprised at this argument. I doubt that a person of your sophistication would use it about any country other than Israel. A "counterattack in a war" can absolutely be a genocide 51.3K views · 468 likes · 42 reposts · 40 replies Open on X →

Simon Kuper@KuperSimon8 Sep

They looked everywhere, but only white people write stuff in France 680 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Simon Kuper@KuperSimon8 Sep

Les plus grandes signatures libérales-conservatrices, réunies dans une seule revue. Offre de lancement dès 3,70 €/mois. 68.8K views · 74 likes · 17 reposts · 31 replies Open on X →

Simon Kuper@KuperSimon3 Sep

New Book Alert. Congratulations on publication day to Mark Dunham and Stephen Twigge for The MI5 Archive: Official Secrets. It calls itself "the definitive visual record" of MI5's clandestine work throughout its history. Some stunning documents. Buy here: https://t.co/K1EetArfNE 3K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Simon Kuper@KuperSimon27 Aug 2025

@KuperSimon @footballandwar congrats! 699 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Simon Kuper@KuperSimon26 Aug 2025

@KuperSimon When is your pod coming back Simon? 279 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Simon Kuper@KuperSimon26 Aug 2025

@KuperSimon Looking forward to adding it to the collection. Greetings from Mexico. https://t.co/HWTKKw9dE7

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Simon Kuper@KuperSimon26 Aug 2025

Very chuffed to get my hands on a copy of my book World Cup Fever - a story of the tournament told through my own nine World Cups. It's out in English and Dutch in early October, but you can already preorder it, e.g. here https://t.co/hWnRozMV20 https://t.co/BYUDiwG6qb

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

Median views14 900this account955median for 10K–100K

Reach, %17.56%this account3.50%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.60%this account1.57%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	14 900	955	15.6×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	17.56%	3.50%	5.02×
Engagement rate	0.60%	1.57%	0.38×

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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.

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102K26 Aug

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69927 Aug

3K3 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

0.33%26 Aug

1.07%

0.72%

0.29%27 Aug

0.17%3 Sep

0.18%8 Sep

1.03%

1.07%14 Sep

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1.30%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.57%.

What the audience does

Likes73.5%973 in total

Reposts10.1%134 in total

Replies8.2%108 in total

Bookmarks8.2%109 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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