Rory Stewart ✓

@RoryStewartUK · New Haven, CT · joined 11 Apr 2010

Author The Middleland https://t.co/MPlyEWbdCD, PlacesinBetween, Jackson/Yale. PoliticsOnTheEdge. @Restispolitics podcast w Alastair Campbell.

591 506Followers

1 200Following

32 198Posts total

4.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views74 152this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %12.54%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.32%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	74 152	21 891	3.39×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.54%	6.81%	1.84×
Engagement rate	0.32%	1.14%	0.28×

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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

3.5M1 Mar

354.9K30 Jul

91.2K31 Jul

24.9K7 Aug

189.4K19 Aug

57.1K20 Aug

32.7K1 Sep

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

1.16%1 Mar

0.29%30 Jul

0.22%31 Jul

0.46%7 Aug

0.36%19 Aug

0.42%20 Aug

0.27%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes74.1%33 186 in total

Reposts13.7%6 118 in total

Replies6.3%2 821 in total

Quotes1.8%810 in total

Bookmarks4.1%1 837 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

Complaint about politics is easy — I’ve had a lot of practice. What’s harder, and what I’d like these live evenings to be about, is what’s left worth defending. Thank you to everyone who is still arguing and engaging… 32.7K views · 71 likes · 4 reposts · 12 replies 01 Sep 2026 .@citrinowicz powerful and persuasive here. He writes “Israel's international position will not fundamentally improve until its strategy changes: until it can articulate a credible diplomatic objective, an alternative to perpetual war and a political future that does not simply 57.1K views · 162 likes · 38 reposts · 39 replies 20 Aug 2026 Israel's problem is not primarily one of influence. It is a problem of strategy. No new public-diplomacy operation, influence unit or communications campaign — whether Bennett calls it "Unit 8300" or "Unit 83000" — can solve the fundamental challenge Israel faces in Washington 189.4K views · 484 likes · 130 reposts · 46 replies 19 Aug 2026 Politics on the Edge is 99p on Kindle for August. Roughly what most people felt my time in government was worth…. https://t.co/k3JmSlxCXM https://t.co/YG3Ve06LjD 24.9K views · 77 likes · 11 reposts · 24 replies 07 Aug 2026 Something perhaps for a new government to focus on??! Trains running on time…. 91.2K views · 164 likes · 9 reposts · 28 replies 31 Jul 2026 Dear @EastMidRailway I know it’s tough keeping things on time, especially when the weather is so hot. I know you are trying to keep passengers happy and, I have to say your staff are always courteous and apologetic but… as someone who travels from Sheffield to London (and 354.9K views · 859 likes · 41 reposts · 122 replies 30 Jul 2026 Was it for this that the US spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbours, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war-torn countries, and break its promises to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world? 🧵 3.5M views · 31.4K likes · 5.9K reposts · 2.5K replies 01 Mar 2025