Ailbhe Rea ✓

@PronouncedAlva · London via Belfast · joined 04 Jun 2012

Political Editor, New Statesman. Get two months for £2: https://t.co/tjaqLhmYmY

31 192Followers

3 084Following

8 393Posts total

540.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views69 034this account3 808median for 10K–100K

Reach, %221.32%this account12.23%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.44%this account1.37%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	69 034	3 808	18.1×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.2× audience	12.23%	18.1×
Engagement rate	0.44%	1.37%	0.32×

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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

169.7K29 Sep

9.9K20 Jul

37.7K21 Jul

222.9K27 Jul

100.4K18 Aug

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

0.47%29 Sep

0.52%20 Jul

1.24%21 Jul

0.26%27 Jul

0.36%18 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.37%.

What the audience does

Likes69.0%1 736 in total

Reposts7.6%192 in total

Replies10.4%262 in total

Quotes3.3%84 in total

Bookmarks9.7%243 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

"One news bulletin described him as “the Black professor accused of plagiarism”: as if the most important thing was not the plagiarism, but the temerity to be simultaneously Black." Devastating and brilliant column from @stephenkb on Jason Arday and what the coverage of him got 100.4K views · 230 likes · 51 reposts · 67 replies 18 Aug 2026 Excl: John Healey has appointed Will Straw as his Chief of Staff in the Treasury. Straw, who held a leading role in the Remain campaign as Executive Director of Britain Stronger in Europe, was previously an adviser in the Treasury under Gordon Brown and senior at the IPPR think 222.9K views · 359 likes · 77 reposts · 94 replies 27 Jul 2026 Andy Burnham has been in the job for less than 24 hours and the cabinet mjnisters he sacked are already marking the homework of the incoming ones 37.7K views · 405 likes · 36 reposts · 22 replies 21 Jul 2026 NS podcast on a big day! In which I tentatively shared intel that neither Ed Miliband nor Shabana Mahmood would be Chancellor... which has aged ok! https://t.co/t2tVr8AftK 9.9K views · 51 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 20 Jul 2026 I'm thrilled to announce I'm returning to the New Statesman as Political Editor in November. An honour to step into @AndrewMarr9's legendary shoes as he becomes editor-at-large. Can't wait to get started with @TomMcTague and the whole team! 169.7K views · 691 likes · 27 reposts · 79 replies 29 Sep 2025