Laura Cumming

@LauraCummingArt · London · joined 25 Aug 2013

@ObserverUK art critic. Thunderclap - out July 5; On Chapel Sands, Sunday Times bestseller; The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks @simonschuster Rep: @pew_literary

13 495Followers

1 332Following

29 642Posts total

235.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views2 397this account949median for 10K–100K

Reach, %17.76%this account3.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.51%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 397	949	2.53×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	17.76%	3.23%	5.50×
Engagement rate	2.51%	2.00%	1.25×

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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

56.9K30 Jun

61816 Oct

59025 Nov

6123 Jan

11.5K27 Aug

22K31 Aug

133.1K

1.8K

2.4K

797

3K1 Sep

1.8K

Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.40%30 Jun

1.29%16 Oct

1.36%25 Nov

3.28%23 Jan

1.42%27 Aug

7.25%31 Aug

2.75%

2.51%

1.50%

2.66%

3.64%

0.67%1 Sep

1.51%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes73.0%4 357 in total

Reposts21.3%1 269 in total

Replies2.7%162 in total

Quotes0.9%54 in total

Bookmarks2.1%125 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Brilliant piece by @vanessathorpe 1.8K views · 23 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

‘They were stitching for their lives’: why the Bayeux tapestry is a testament to terror As the embroidery arrives in the UK for the first time in 950 years, experts say the women who created it were playing a strategic game of survival ✍️ @vanessathorpe https://t.co/WmdJidhmJ2 3K views · 9 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@LauraCummingArt @britishmuseum @George_Osborne Ah, that's any easy one - Thiel is very, very, very, very rich and in the same Epstein Class club as George Osborne, and you're not. 797 views · 27 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@LauraCummingArt @britishmuseum @George_Osborne Money talks, has anyone found out the size of the backhander to George Osborne who happens to be the Chair of the Board of Trustees at the British Museum. 1K views · 23 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Nolan Principles?? 2.4K views · 29 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@LauraCummingArt @britishmuseum @George_Osborne Hard to see how this was justified. 80,000 people queued for hours to see the tapestry, and scarce conservation light hours went to a private viewing for someone who isn't even a donor. 1.8K views · 37 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I could not get access to @britishmuseum despite MANY REQUESTS to write a feature for my paper as it was a condition of the deal with the French Govt that nobody could see it until officially open What is the explanation for this @George_Osborne??? ⬇️ https://t.co/SksNCmtNSY 133.1K views · 2.7K likes · 818 reposts · 75 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The British Museum is part financed by us, the taxpayer. Why do its bosses think that American oligarchs are more important than us, the public? @britishmuseum https://t.co/Gm6BccwCZl 22K views · 1.2K likes · 383 reposts · 34 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Anita Brookner smoked Sovereign cigs, took Prozac and never missed The Bill - the many revelations in Hermione Lee’s tremendous new biography 11.5K views · 135 likes · 19 reposts · 9 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@LauraCummingArt I'm loving " Thunderclap" but I was very surprised to read the error on page 89 where you write that Dunfermline is in the East Neuk of Fife! 61 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 23 Jan 2024 · Open on X →

@LauraCummingArt Thank you 4 the talk you gave @lborouniversity about your fabulous book #OnChapelSands & Thanks so much 4 giving me your copy signed As a #dyslexic I was so grateful to listen to your great narration of OCS on @audible_com where I have just purchased you new 590 views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 25 Nov 2023 · Open on X →

@LauraCummingArt @LauraCummingArt hard to believe that you could better The Vanishing Man but this is brilliant - eye opening, educational, emotional and wonderfully written. Chocolate cake for the brain. Thank you. 618 views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 16 Oct 2023 · Open on X →

https://t.co/kluYxas7eO 56.9K views · 164 likes · 17 reposts · 35 replies 30 Jun 2023 · Open on X →