Pico Iyer

@PicoIyer · The World · joined 21 Apr 2013

Born in Oxford, England in 1957, resident since 1992 in suburban Japan and a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California.

22 334Followers

0Following

4 676Posts total

6.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 095this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.90%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.56%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 095	2 896	0.38×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.90%	9.51%	0.52×
Engagement rate	2.56%	1.56%	1.64×

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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

91127 Aug

1.1K28 Aug

1.6K30 Aug

2.6K31 Aug

4732 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.09%27 Aug

2.56%28 Aug

4.11%30 Aug

4.05%31 Aug

2.54%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes79.2%190 in total

Reposts15.0%36 in total

Replies1.2%3 in total

Quotes0.8%2 in total

Bookmarks3.8%9 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

“It is so hard to forget what it is more than useless to remember." As ever Thoreau saw just what we would be facing in the digital age and in the face of 24/7 news-cycles and never-ending tweets. 473 views · 9 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 The most important fact of life, at least for me: everything looks better in the morning. 2.6K views · 86 likes · 18 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 Maybe the opposite of relaxation is not tension but attention. And maybe that's available to most of us. 1.6K views · 56 likes · 8 reposts · 2 replies 30 Aug 2026 Choice has never been so good a guide for me as either necessity or intuition. 1.1K views · 24 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 The mind is the litigious prosecutor in us, always eager to fashion arguments and score temporary victories. Heart and spirit are so often the defendants, unable to find the facile words to secure a peaceful future. 911 views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026