Ananth Krishnan ✓

@ananthkrishnan · joined 15 Apr 2009

Director at The Hindu Group. Author, India’s China Challenge. Connect with me on Substack, where I write The India China Newsletter.

68 683Followers

2 336Following

454Posts total

414.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views29 745this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %43.31%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.94%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	29 745	2 896	10.3×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	43.31%	9.51%	4.55×
Engagement rate	0.94%	1.56%	0.60×

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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

352.2K29 Aug

54.4K31 Aug

2.9K3 Sep

5.1K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.16%29 Aug

1.81%31 Aug

1.36%3 Sep

0.51%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes61.5%1 301 in total

Reposts13.3%281 in total

Replies1.4%29 in total

Quotes0.7%14 in total

Bookmarks23.2%491 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

'When Beijing proposed settling Sikkim alone, India’s considered response around 2019 was a counter-proposal on an “Early and Substantial Harvest” covering Sikkim...with the entire Middle Sector with boundary delineated along the watershed.' @ashokkkantha https://t.co/vC7c2tNmlx 5.1K views · 19 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 .@the_hindu on India's GDP growth: 'Real growth in the April-June 2026 quarter at a robust 7.8% is not a statistical anomaly. The Indian economy’s resilience was tested in Q1 and it passed admirably; however, a tougher stamina test remains.' https://t.co/oGMEGLlCYg 2.9K views · 25 likes · 14 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 All it takes is one clear six-minute explanatory video on how the glacial collapse happened to tell you that pretty much a lot of what's been said on Indian media and social media these past few days has been complete misinformation. https://t.co/aDt4VemgYr 54.4K views · 749 likes · 205 reposts · 22 replies 31 Aug 2026 Tells you everything that most Indian television channels call on experts in geopolitics, and not geology or the environment, to talk about a natural disaster. And I use 'experts' very loosely. 352.2K views · 508 likes · 55 reposts · 7 replies 29 Aug 2026