Richard Lloyd Parry

@dicklp · Tokyo · joined 11 Feb 2009

Asia Editor @thetimes. Author IN THE GREEN HEART (Aug), GHOSTS OF THE TSUNAMI, PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS. Winner @TheWritersPrize. Agent @NatFairweather. My views

15 224Followers

1 604Following

8 751Posts total

19.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp27 Aug

RIP (Rest in Polka Dots) Yayoi Kusama, 1929-2026, whom I interviewed in 2026, with @JshPhotog. Link below. https://t.co/CLNm7SlrzS

536 views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp1 Aug

Amaterasu preserve us. https://t.co/zEeN9Kk5QN

554 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp16 Jul

8.37am, Yoyogi Hachiman Shrine, Tokyo, the semi (cicadas) have fetched up their noise. High summer begins. 767 views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp30 May

The UK’s special relationship alliance with the United States is “meaningless” unless it matches American military capabilities, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth, has told his British counterpart, John Healey. https://t.co/KgNYiZKTMB #SLD26 #IISS @thetimes 606 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp23 Apr

That's fine, of course - carry on attitudinising. But don't confuse it with journalism. (Call me Nostradamus, but I prophesy that you're going to respond with something about .... the Olympics!) 921 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp23 Apr

The difference is that one of us has an opinion, now and then, but also gets out of the office sometimes, goes to places and talks to people. Whereas the other, from all visible evidence, works exclusively via a screen, reacting, recycling, sneering, then chuhai tweeting at 1 am. 7.6K views · 14 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp21 Apr

@dicklp Off subject but I read People Who Eat Darkness whilst on holiday a couple of years ago in Yakushima and hunkered down for a typhoon…. Haunting and truly unforgettable. You did justice to her life and its foul and tragic ending, if that is possible. 174 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp21 Apr

3) Address the person you’re sneering at. Apart from being the decent, non-sneaky thing to do, it allows people to Engage. (Not sure how keen you are on that bit. This has been fun, though - hasn’t it?) 835 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Richard Lloyd Parry@dicklp18 Apr

I wonder how far into this article I needed to read to discover that Japan had not, in fact, cancelled the Tokyo Olympics https://t.co/CUfoPL6ec5

7.5K views · 45 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views554this account905median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.64%this account3.44%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.43%this account1.96%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	554	905	0.61×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.64%	3.44%	1.06×
Engagement rate	1.43%	1.96%	0.73×

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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

7.5K18 Apr

83521 Apr

174

7.6K23 Apr

921

60630 May

76716 Jul

5541 Aug

53627 Aug

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.72%18 Apr

1.20%21 Apr

0.57%

0.24%23 Apr

0.87%

0.50%30 May

1.43%16 Jul

0.36%1 Aug

2.61%27 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.96%.

What the audience does

Likes77.4%96 in total

Reposts8.9%11 in total

Replies8.1%10 in total

Quotes3.2%4 in total

Bookmarks2.4%3 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.