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Alan Lester

@aljhlester · Uckfield, England · joined 09 Jan 2012

Professor specialising in British colonialism.

16 070Followers
6 727Following
18 240Posts total
140.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views2 505this account2 578median for 10K–100K
Reach, %15.59%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.64%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post2 5052 5780.97×
Reach (views ÷ followers)15.59%7.77%2.01×
Engagement rate2.64%1.47%1.80×

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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

88.6K3 Oct
18K9 Aug
27.6K2 Sep
1.5K3 Sep
3.5K4 Sep
1.1K
259

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

0.24%3 Oct
0.53%9 Aug
1.83%2 Sep
7.65%3 Sep
3.45%4 Sep
1.82%
4.25%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes60.1%690 in total
Reposts20.5%235 in total
Replies11.7%134 in total
Quotes1.7%20 in total
Bookmarks6.0%69 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

It took a lot: the threat of an IPSO investigation, insults and rank hypocrisy from Michael Gove, refusal to publish a right to reply & a last minute excision without consultation, but at last I got The Spectator to publish a counter to its propaganda war against Project Spir 259 views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 Good. https://t.co/y8kuvC8Fcw 1.1K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 It’s well worth reading this article by Lamy. She shows how vicious racist pseudo-scientists & their far right support network was able to frame the mainstream press coverage of Jason Arday right from the start. 3.5K views · 78 likes · 38 reposts · 4 replies 04 Sep 2026 Superb report from @Channel4News on Reform’s covert poll commissioning. James Orr’s filmed illegality is priceless. Verbatim’s brilliant exposure is no surprise though. Polls that “bend” the rules are right wing propagandists’ stock in trade (e.g. below). https://t.co/1KbAg18a9x 1.5K views · 84 likes · 30 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I've republished an article by French researcher & infowar expert, Stephanie Lamy. It's her argument & agree with her, or disagree - it's up to you - but we need this debate. So ask yourself why the UK media is refusing to have it? https://t.co/BrPDdcHbQL 27.6K views · 330 likes · 99 reposts · 67 replies 02 Sep 2026 1/9 The Spectator seems to have it in for me, which makes me very proud, given that even its own former political editor has described it as “one of the most influential media apologists for bigotry, hatred and racism”. 18K views · 77 likes · 17 reposts · 1 replies 09 Aug 2026 David Olusoga and Alan Lester – The Truth About the British Empire https://t.co/PNSzrGjM2o 88.6K views · 96 likes · 47 reposts · 60 replies 03 Oct 2024

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