Institute for Fiscal Studies ✓

@TheIFS · London, UK · joined 14 Nov 2010

Britain’s leading independent economic research institute

62 921Followers

0Following

19 058Posts total

13.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 696this account2 259median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.69%this account6.80%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.22%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 696	2 259	0.75×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.69%	6.80%	0.40×
Engagement rate	0.22%	1.52%	0.14×

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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

3.5K28 Aug

334

672

846

2.1K29 Aug

1.7K2 Sep

3K3 Sep

1.7K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.34%28 Aug

0.60%

0.00%

0.12%

0.19%29 Aug

0.17%2 Sep

0.39%3 Sep

0.24%

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

What the audience does

Likes37.8%17 in total

Reposts22.2%10 in total

Replies15.6%7 in total

Quotes8.9%4 in total

Bookmarks15.6%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

NEW: How worried should we be about the 300,000 NEETs (those not in employment education or training) who aren’t claiming benefits in the UK? Here’s what our new report finds out about these so called ‘hidden’ NEETs using the Millenium Cohort Study [THREAD 1/5] https://t.co/EuC 1.7K views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 NEW: Hidden NEETs are much closer to the labour market than NEETs who are claiming benefits. Our new analysis, out today, looks at young people who are not in education, employment or training and do not claim benefits: https://t.co/eQI24jrm33 3K views · 6 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 EVENT: 2026 IFS Annual lecture on ‘Are Ideas Harder to Find, Overall?’ Mon 12 October | 6-7pm | London Join us for the IFS Annual Lecture with Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion as he explores the future of innovation and productivity. 📅 Register now: https://t.co/8pNrgfNQ79 http 1.7K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 📉 #IFSSatStat: The NHS almost always has its budget topped up. But last year saw a far smaller top-up than previous years. There are many factors behind this - but part of the explanation is that English NHS hospitals significantly slowed down activity and staffing growth. http 2.1K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 29 Aug 2026 @MaxWarnerIFS Many factors were behind this, including higher initial budgets from the 2024 Spending Review and continued productivity growth. But an important part of the explanation is that English NHS hospitals slowed down activity and staffing growth relative to the year bef 846 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026 @MaxWarnerIFS NHS budgets are currently set to grow more slowly in the coming years. The key question is: will they will be stuck to, or will we return to seeing large NHS budget top-ups every year? Read the full comment, funded by @NuffieldFound, here: https://t.co/OoylnLVXFS h 672 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 28 Aug 2026 @MaxWarnerIFS The Department of Health and Social Care’s budget was not entirely without top-up in 2025-26. £400 million was brought forward from later years at the 2025 Autumn Budget. But the overall increase was far smaller than frontline top-ups in 2024–25 (£16bn) or 2023–24 ( 334 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026 NEW: The NHS almost always has its budget topped up. But 2025–26 was different, with a much smaller top-up and no claim on the Treasury Reserve or capital budgets for frontline pressures. @MaxWarnerIFS & Olly Harvey-Rich’s Green Budget comment on what changed last year [1/4] 3.5K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026