Chris Smyth

@Smyth_Chris · joined 01 Sep 2009

Public Policy Editor @ft Previously Whitehall Editor @thetimes. DMs open

22 016Followers

1 871Following

7 528Posts total

104.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views4 365this account2 968median for 10K–100K

Reach, %19.83%this account9.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.22%this account1.42%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 365	2 968	1.47×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	19.83%	9.18%	2.16×
Engagement rate	0.22%	1.42%	0.16×

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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

2.2K29 Jul

2.1K24 Aug

49.5K1 Sep

4.4K

38.6K2 Sep

2.4K3 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

0.22%29 Jul

0.19%24 Aug

3.07%1 Sep

0.02%

0.18%2 Sep

0.40%

0.37%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes73.8%1 208 in total

Reposts19.0%311 in total

Replies4.5%74 in total

Quotes2.3%37 in total

Bookmarks0.4%7 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

Angela Rayner seems to have quietly watered down Burnham's pledge of biggest council housebuilding boom "since the postwar period" She told MPs he "has committed to delivering the biggest council house building programme since the post-war boom ended in the early 1980s" 2.4K views · 5 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 She wants to be careful about that - constructive ambiguity working out just fine for Burnham so far 5K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Louise Haigh tells MPs the government is ending "the warm bath of constructive ambiguity which politics has been too happy to soak in for far too long" 👀 38.6K views · 37 likes · 7 reposts · 16 replies 02 Sep 2026 Starmer's closest challenger in 2024 suggests he will do a deal with the Greens But not clear they yet agree who should stand 4.4K views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 We must ensure that all progressive forces in Holborn & St. Pancras unite in order to deliver an MP who represents us & will work for us. An MP who is the antithesis of everything that Starmer stands for 49.5K views · 1.1K likes · 298 reposts · 54 replies 01 Sep 2026 Graduates from Russell Group universities have highest debt on plan 2 student loans, first detailed data shows Higher interest rates contribute to £52,412 average outstanding debt That's more than the £47,730 owed by this summer's graduates, despite up to 10 years of repayments 2.1K views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026 Andy Burnham says fixing social care will be the test of his premiership and he won't be put off by political risks But why has it proved so hard for any government to fix? I looked at the backstory here: https://t.co/sUrxfnGvdS via @ft 2.2K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 29 Jul 2026