Alex Wickham ✓

@alexwickham · London, England · joined 05 Nov 2011

UK Political Editor for Bloomberg awickham8@bloomberg.net

121 247Followers

3 492Following

60 080Posts total

227.7KViews 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 views24 177this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %19.94%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.56%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	24 177	21 891	1.10×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	19.94%	6.81%	2.93×
Engagement rate	0.56%	1.14%	0.49×

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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

21.3K25 Aug

109.2K1 Sep

24.2K2 Sep

24.1K

6.3K3 Sep

42.6K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.57%25 Aug

0.55%1 Sep

0.65%2 Sep

0.29%

0.32%3 Sep

0.83%

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

What the audience does

Likes59.9%822 in total

Reposts21.8%299 in total

Replies9.6%132 in total

Quotes5.0%68 in total

Bookmarks3.8%52 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

Exclusive: UK-specific investor concerns about Andy Burnham and John Healey’s fiscal plans are amplifying the impact of the global bond selloff on gilts, according to analysis by Bloomberg @economics Our economists say that while some of the recent hit to gilts is attributable 42.6K views · 223 likes · 84 reposts · 19 replies 03 Sep 2026 NEW by @Joe_Mayes: John Healey’s bind deepens. Could he go for lower headroom at the budget? A key question hanging over the chancellor is whether he will seek to maintain Rachel Reeves’ £23.6 billion fiscal buffer or whether he’ll be satisfied with smaller headroom against 6.3K views · 18 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Andy Burnham says market turbulence is because of the Tory record on rising debt 24.1K views · 23 likes · 2 reposts · 34 replies 02 Sep 2026 Gilts are extending their selloff this morning, further raising UK government borrowing costs and threatening John Healey’s headroom The 10 year yield is up 7 basis points today to 5.29%, the highest since August 2007 You’d imagine this will dominate Andy Burnham’s first PMQs 24.2K views · 104 likes · 37 reposts · 14 replies 02 Sep 2026 Bloomberg exclusive: Andy Burnham and John Healey have a £12 billion black hole in their budget caused by the global bond selloff Gilts yields surged to the highest levels in decades on Tuesday Bloomberg Economics estimates that, together with higher inflation, higher 109.2K views · 374 likes · 151 reposts · 52 replies 01 Sep 2026 EXCLUSIVE: 24 hours with Andy Burnham in Ukraine for his first major foreign policy interview. The domestic-focused PM leaves warming to his global role. “I’m at my best when I can see the injustice and I can go at it. I see it here and I feel it here. I come away more 21.3K views · 80 likes · 24 reposts · 12 replies 25 Aug 2026