Stephen McDonell
@StephenMcDonell · Beijing · joined 28 Jan 2011
China Correspondent BBC, formerly Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 如果你也曾经穿过那道看不见的界限并且在没有颜色的街道上找不到可以停留的地方请你一定回来告诉我。P.K.14 baffling bozos since the beginning.
102 307Followers
1 135Following
69 671Posts total
311.9KViews on collected posts
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Me speaking about Evergrande founder life in prison, Youtube version:
#China
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https://t.co/I4WKU25we7
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#China's disaster videos real or fake? You be the judge...
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https://t.co/CJET4zKa3D
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“How close is the Trump administration to the toxic Tate brothers? Let’s ask the president’s son Barron …”
#USA #UK
https://t.co/lmdrm2DMCR
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#China is diving headlong into “AI” tech - hoping for global dominance - but these platforms are pouring, dangerous, fake, images/videos/text onto the internet. They can generate a mountain of disinformation.
A piece from me.
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https://t.co/JnRRJD91KV
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My new China photos, videos, first-hand observations, main contributions to China discussion etc now to be found on Bluesky. All the serious China chat has moved there from this deliberately run down dunny. https://t.co/eHxdtMW8qN
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@yotamurotani Last & least we now have the Party’s foreign useful idiots wheeled with their hilariously doofus takes. So we: didn’t say there were undercover police; were nowhere near a “crime scene”; approached nobody; were standing outside the stadium complex when assaulted + n
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@yotamurotani This response is from, if you can believe it, a real Chinese government official who’s been posted in #Pakistan. He has a history of using extreme, nasty, language designed to inflame hatred of foreigners. Top diplomat heh! He’s like a teenage nationalist troll. #Ch
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@yotamurotani BTW two local Chinese journalists working for Economic Reference Daily (part of Xinhua group I think) reportedly also got beaten up pretty badly while trying to cover a railway extension in #Anhui Province. Don’t know why the sensitivity? Sub-standard construction?
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We weren’t the only ones to cop this treatment. Here’s a journalist from #Japan @yotamurotani https://t.co/AQW2OL9dlS
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Don’t forget the brilliant people in #China who didn’t act like those who tried to block our reporting. Per our story: “residents also gathered to light candles to remember the dead…lines of volunteers at hospitals offered to donate blood”
https://t.co/xQxuDji3HV
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中文版的。 Chinese version…
https://t.co/ZNyRWv3mXF
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A group in plain clothes were waiting at the gates to the complex where the terrible killings happened in #Zhuhai #Guangdong and assaulted us as we tried to report on the incident. Shutting down reporting #China style… CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO WATCH
https://t.co/hmNQGc5pU2
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Shutting down reporting on the horrible killings in #Zhuhai #Guangdong #China CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO WATCH…
https://t.co/xQxuDji3HV
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Against accounts of the same size
4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views4 446this account6 277median for 100K–1M
Reach, %4.35%this account1.78%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.24%this account1.12%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 4 446 | 6 277 | 0.71× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.35% | 1.78% | 2.44× |
| Engagement rate | 0.24% | 1.12% | 0.21× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
190.3K12 Nov
21.1K
11.2K13 Nov
16.9K
9.7K
6.8K14 Nov
9.4K
5.6K15 Nov
22.7K2 Feb
438
4.1K28 Jul
5.2K29 Jul
3.7K6 Aug
4.8K21 Aug
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.53%12 Nov
0.93%
0.39%13 Nov
1.10%
0.85%
0.49%14 Nov
0.53%
0.52%15 Nov
0.39%2 Feb
0.68%
0.42%28 Jul
0.13%29 Jul
0.35%6 Aug
0.10%21 Aug
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.12%.
What the audience does
Likes73.6%1 368 in total
Reposts20.7%385 in total
Replies0.9%16 in total
Bookmarks4.8%90 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
10 Sep
Daily snapshots since 10 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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