Pjotr Sauer

@PjotrSauer · joined 16 Jul 2008

Reporter @Guardian covering Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. Write to me: pjotr.sauer@theguardian.com Insta & BlueSky @PjotrSauer

43 436Followers

4 758Following

12 734Posts total

150.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Pjotr Sauer@PjotrSauer17 Aug

@PjotrSauer Funny how you never report any bad news about Ukraine. Is that forbidden in the Guardian? 528 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Pjotr Sauer@PjotrSauer17 Aug

@PjotrSauer @McFaul At least he didn’t fall out of a window 👍 806 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Pjotr Sauer@PjotrSauer17 Aug

@PjotrSauer He was wrong. He was also a bad economist building economic models for the bank based on that wrong scenario. He got fired. That's exactly how things should work in free market capitalism. 223 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Pjotr Sauer@PjotrSauer17 Aug

The chief economist at Russia’s second-largest bank has been fired after a series of critical comments about the state of the economy, including warnings that Moscow would not win a prolonged economic war with Ukraine https://t.co/HbHdPw1Dpa 84.6K views · 485 likes · 193 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Pjotr Sauer@PjotrSauer30 Jul

Two Russian anti-war activists detained in Kazakhstan are at imminent risk of being extradited to Russia https://t.co/jT6pwnIZkZ 5K views · 21 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Pjotr Sauer@PjotrSauer15 Jul

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to remove defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the 35-year-old architect of Ukraine’s wartime defence technology drive https://t.co/4Vgv7ZtkU7 5.1K views · 13 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Pjotr Sauer@PjotrSauer14 Jul

Agree with @olliecarroll. The whole premise that Putin would face domestic unrest because he "lost" the war is flawed. Barring a truly catastrophic defeat (unlikely), he will be able to manufacture almost any outcome as a victory. Most Russians will gladly accept that narrative 54.4K views · 148 likes · 31 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

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5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views806this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.86%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.83%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	806	924	0.87×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.86%	3.62%	0.51×
Engagement rate	0.83%	1.52%	0.55×

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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

54.4K14 Jul

5.1K15 Jul

5K30 Jul

84.6K17 Aug

223

806

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Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.37%14 Jul

0.41%15 Jul

0.58%30 Jul

0.83%17 Aug

1.79%

0.74%

2.08%

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

What the audience does

Likes63.7%678 in total

Reposts22.2%236 in total

Replies4.4%47 in total

Quotes1.7%18 in total

Bookmarks8.1%86 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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