Tim CB ✓

@balmer_tim · Warwickshire · joined 06 Dec 2020

Author of military heist thrillers. I like politics, business, history, defence, one tier justice and society. 🪖 Fusilier, ⚽ Arsenal.

16 219Followers

10 604Following

36 587Posts total

334.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views1 815this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %11.19%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.97%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 815	3 383	0.54×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	11.19%	10.96%	1.02×
Engagement rate	2.97%	1.40%	2.11×

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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

27.6K2 Sep

209.2K

93.1K

3363 Sep

262

301

624

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

0.24%2 Sep

0.26%

6.13%

3.27%3 Sep

1.15%

2.66%

6.92%

4.65%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes89.2%5 870 in total

Reposts5.0%326 in total

Replies4.8%313 in total

Quotes1.0%63 in total

Bookmarks0.2%11 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

Soldiers will not fight for you if you constantly tell them you do not value them. When you lose too many people at once, which actions like this cause, you start to lose institutional memory. It's incredibly hard to regain that in any organisation but in the military you pay in 624 views · 23 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 🚨 BREAKING: Britain's Army has reportedly been ordered to halt major training exercises because the Ministry of Defence is running short of money. • Army units have been told to stop "collective training" unless they are preparing for an imminent deployment. • Exercises https:/ 3K views · 123 likes · 55 reposts · 23 replies 03 Sep 2026 I feel like I'm constantly grumbling about the NHS but back from the hospital with Wolf and find two letters from them. One telling me that his appointment from a week ago is cancelled. I was never aware of that one and another telling me that his appointment is this morning http 301 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 People are saying it looks like a hell hole but come the zombie apocalypse the residents will be the one laughing. 262 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 We were told repeatedly that his wasn't a problem, that all of them had returned, that anyone raising was a racist. Lies, lies and more lies. 336 views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 JUST IN: Protests erupt across Spain, demanding the roughly 10,000 migrants still stranded in Ceuta be returned to their countries of origin. 93.1K views · 5.4K likes · 243 reposts · 54 replies 02 Sep 2026 Council flats, Sheffield. 😬 https://t.co/UxiGF7ItSM 209.2K views · 262 likes · 18 reposts · 227 replies 02 Sep 2026 I was an officer in the Army Reserve for 20 years which included various full time stints. I often think I should write a series of threads about how mismanaged the Army is. Much of my time was spent mitigating idiocy from above. Small example - my battalion had the Brigade it ht 27.6K views · 52 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026