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Merryn Somerset Webb ✓

@MerrynSW · joined 09 Aug 2010

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 185Followers
2 399Following
39 402Posts total
519.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

He was always there. 5.2K views · 47 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
John Swinney was education secretary between 2016 and 2021 Since 2015, Scotland's children's mathematics skills have collapsed while reading and science have at best stagnated. All the while, the gap with English students grows across all three. 18.3K views · 174 likes · 59 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →
The U.K. as a real time Laffer Curve case study. Rise in Scottish NHS staff living in England to avoid Scotland's silly tax regime. https://t.co/MMwes3CIXB
29.7K views · 615 likes · 108 reposts · 56 replies Open on X →
330 MILLION btw 19.8K views · 461 likes · 27 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →
Oh look. The Laffer Curve is real. £330k ish of annual tax revenue leaves the UK in one go. https://t.co/udaP91hO1H 122.6K views · 1.5K likes · 165 reposts · 161 replies Open on X →
The triple lock. It should go. Immediately. Its job is done (pensioner poverty is low) and the state pension is slowly being replaced by your auto-enrolment income anyway.... 148.4K views · 967 likes · 66 reposts · 232 replies Open on X →
@MerrynSW Wow, I thought I was unshockable 1.4K views · 31 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@MerrynSW Tell me this is AI fakery 1.1K views · 35 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@MerrynSW The line between "politics" & "entertainment" grows ever more blurred. 1.9K views · 36 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
New low. https://t.co/OMIQuuHAzk 131.6K views · 1.1K likes · 106 reposts · 168 replies Open on X →
@MerrynSW Super short-sighted. Also shows working class solopreneurs assumed not part of Labout base anymore 355 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@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 Open on X →
@MerrynSW This is all assuming there will be any capital gains left to tax. 386 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
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 Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

14 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views11 741this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %17.74%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.53%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post11 74192412.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)17.74%3.62%4.90×
Engagement rate1.53%1.52%1.01×

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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
131.6K5 Sep
1.9K
1.1K
1.4K
148.4K
122.6K7 Sep
19.8K
29.7K8 Sep
18.3K
5.2K

Last 14 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%
1.07%5 Sep
2.19%
3.14%
2.38%
0.87%
1.49%7 Sep
2.56%
2.65%8 Sep
1.39%
1.06%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes77.0%5 452 in total
Reposts8.5%601 in total
Replies9.5%676 in total
Quotes1.8%125 in total
Bookmarks3.2%229 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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