Andy Verity

@andyverity · London · joined 30 Mar 2011

‘A man with no eyebrows telling you the emperor has no clothes’. Author of 'Rigged'. BBC economics + investigation. Bust myths. Expose cover-ups. Listen.

23 106Followers

2 250Following

9 311Posts total

466.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Andy Verity@andyverity7 Sep

This brilliant animated bar chart illustrates an economic achievement without precedent in modern times: the lifting of hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in China (and India) - while in 'advanced' countries, the expectation of rising living standards slowly faded... 6.7K views · 56 likes · 25 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Andy Verity@andyverity7 Sep

Elimination of extreme poverty is why the West hates China. CPC policy is that real wages should rise in line with GDP, and rise more for the poorest in the country. Since 1980 wage rises annually have risen an average 5% a year, 7% for the poorest. Compounding, wages double

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180.4K views · 2.3K likes · 859 reposts · 108 replies Open on X →

Andy Verity@andyverity30 Aug

https://t.co/w3ECTbbxAv 1K views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Andy Verity@andyverity26 Jul

When credit spreads start to ‘blow out’, that means the people who spend all their days thinking about the creditworthiness of the ‘Mag 7’ (the big tech companies from Alphabet (google) to Meta (Facebook) think the risk that they default on their debts is growing….. 5.7K views · 19 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Andy Verity@andyverity26 Jul

My friend @Convertbond totally nails it! 23.7K views · 49 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Andy Verity@andyverity22 Jul

If true, it wouldn't be the first time a genuinely transformative technology excites investors so much they forget all about basing their decision to invest on a realistic assessment of earnings. They don't inspect their purchase but drive it straight out of the car showroom. 1/2 10.9K views · 39 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Andy Verity@andyverity21 Jul

We are witnessing the unwinding of the biggest bubble in financial history. Every crash I lived through started the same way: A genuinely good idea captures the imagination, then it gets carried to an absurd extreme. As Buffett put it, what the wise man does in the beginning,

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144.4K views · 1.5K likes · 298 reposts · 99 replies Open on X →

Andy Verity@andyverity6 Sep 2023

My book Rigged, exposing an establishment cover-up at the highest level on both sides of the Atlantic followed by a whole series of miscarriages of justice, has already sold out its initial print run and been reprinted in the UK. Now it's being published in the United States: htt

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93.9K views · 228 likes · 130 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views10 889this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %47.13%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.49%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	10 889	924	11.8×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	47.13%	3.62%	13.0×
Engagement rate	0.49%	1.52%	0.32×

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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

93.9K6 Sep

144.4K21 Jul

10.9K22 Jul

23.7K26 Jul

5.7K

1K30 Aug

180.4K7 Sep

6.7K

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

0.42%6 Sep

1.31%21 Jul

0.49%22 Jul

0.25%26 Jul

0.44%

0.20%30 Aug

1.90%7 Sep

1.40%

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

What the audience does

Likes57.6%4 185 in total

Reposts18.4%1 334 in total

Replies3.3%237 in total

Quotes2.6%186 in total

Bookmarks18.2%1 320 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.