Merryn Somerset Webb ✓

@MerrynSW

UK Wealth, Editor at large, Bloomberg. Ex Ed in C @Moneyweek. Ex Columnist/Contrib Editor @FT Opinions personal. NED: THRG and Schroder https://t.co/ojIBNzZwBO #SharePower

66 057Followers

2 398Following

39 287Posts total

39.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views370this account1 540median for 10K–100K

Reach, %0.56%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.53%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	370	1 540	0.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.56%	4.74%	0.12×
Engagement rate	1.53%	1.87%	0.82×

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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

38.3K2 Sep

386

203

355

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.58%2 Sep

2.33%

1.48%

0.85%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes85.4%539 in total

Reposts9.5%60 in total

Replies3.0%19 in total

Quotes0.2%1 in total

Bookmarks1.9%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.

Latest posts

@MerrynSW Super short-sighted. Also shows working class solopreneurs assumed not part of Labout base anymore 355 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @MerrynSW On a decade-old holding most of the nominal gain is inflation. Taxing it at income-tax rates can push the effective rate on real returns above 100%. 203 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @MerrynSW This is all assuming there will be any capital gains left to tax. 386 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Reminder. Unindexed capital gains tax is a wealth tax. It is already a very bad tax. Making it even higher than it is already is moronic. 38.3K views · 524 likes · 60 reposts · 19 replies 02 Sep 2026