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Brian Lilley

@brianlilley · Ottawa & Toronto · joined 12 Mar 2009

Political columnist for the Toronto Sun. I write about federal and Ontario politics. Sometimes other stuff. I tweet about @NDFootball and movies.

260 971Followers
9 807Following
66 561Posts total
820.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views95 460this account12 273median for 100K–1M
Reach, %36.58%this account3.89%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.97%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post95 46012 2737.78×
Reach (views ÷ followers)36.58%3.89%9.40×
Engagement rate0.97%1.25%0.78×

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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

95.5K1 Sep
56.9K2 Sep
266.9K
11.4K
219.3K
104.7K
66.2K3 Sep

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%1 Sep
1.69%2 Sep
0.97%
0.92%
0.89%
1.36%
1.24%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes62.4%5 136 in total
Reposts9.5%781 in total
Replies24.7%2 035 in total
Quotes1.7%141 in total
Bookmarks1.6%135 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

Sometimes I hear the questions folks in our media ask and am gobsmacked. It's not only the question, it's that he kept pushing after getting an answer. As the Admiral rightly put it, this was an emotional question. Took the name out because I was told I might have it wrong. 66.2K views · 637 likes · 88 reposts · 87 replies 03 Sep 2026 Calling Canada shitty and cheering on a foreign leader attacking ours all in one video. This is so incredibly stupid. 104.7K views · 596 likes · 54 reposts · 741 replies 02 Sep 2026 Insults from Lutnick this morning. Now White House makes sure to rush out the video of Trump trashing Canada, Trudeau, Carney and not naming Doug Ford but referring to him as a slob. I'd say Canada is living rent free in Trump's head. 219.3K views · 943 likes · 98 reposts · 886 replies 02 Sep 2026 Babylon Bee satire come to life. https://t.co/WMjktIGPPV 11.4K views · 64 likes · 6 reposts · 35 replies 02 Sep 2026 OMG 🤣😭 This is probably the BEST MEME YET https://t.co/3FyH003szn 266.9K views · 1.9K likes · 428 reposts · 169 replies 02 Sep 2026 I mean, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation is responsible for…transportation in Ontario. He has nothing to do with Trump. As for Ford, he’s talking lots about Trump and some people love it. Others wish he’d stop. Chow is detached from reality. 56.9K views · 825 likes · 84 reposts · 50 replies 02 Sep 2026 #UPDATE: Olivia Chow responds to province starting work on reversing bike lanes in Toronto. "The Province of Ontario and the Minister of Transportation should be laser focused on dealing with Trump." https://t.co/uBvTOGFqSc 95.5K views · 129 likes · 23 reposts · 67 replies 01 Sep 2026

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