Ira Dugal ✓

@dugalira · Mumbai, India · joined 20 Apr 2012

Financial Journalist. Views and tweets are entirely personal. Present: India Financial News Editor @Reuters. Past: BQ Prime, Mint, NDTV

99 910Followers

1 188Following

42 813Posts total

82.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views12 037this account3 644median for 10K–100K

Reach, %12.05%this account11.83%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.25%this account1.36%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	12 037	3 644	3.30×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.05%	11.83%	1.02×
Engagement rate	1.25%	1.36%	0.92×

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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

46.3K2 Sep

12K

14.8K3 Sep

2.8K

6.1K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.80%2 Sep

1.26%

0.50%3 Sep

0.35%

1.26%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.36%.

What the audience does

Likes72.4%915 in total

Reposts11.9%150 in total

Replies4.0%51 in total

Quotes2.5%32 in total

Bookmarks9.2%116 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

The FCNR aftermath: Rupee gains but traders still finding it hard to ignore the growing forward book. Reuters Nimesh Vora reports: https://t.co/kcnMesWYjp Liquidity soars to an all-time high, with traders speculating on what tools RBI will use to absorb it. From VRRRs to FX htt 6.1K views · 58 likes · 12 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 India stalls Alipay+ payments link over security, data concerns. While linking Alipay+ and UPI may have made commercial sense, security concerns override. Scoop by Reuters @Nikunj_Ohri and @kalrajs23 https://t.co/ilvNDi1Tt4 2.8K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 The GDP debate. As our editor puts it ‘What’s the beef’? @ShubhsBatra explains. https://t.co/4QmKvnLExx 14.8K views · 52 likes · 11 reposts · 8 replies 03 Sep 2026 The key question now is— do markets see this as a positive for the firepower the RBI has for rupee defense ? Or does it see it as a large forward liability weighing on the currency. The answer lies in expectations and communication 12K views · 120 likes · 11 reposts · 14 replies 02 Sep 2026 India draws $136.38 billion in forex inflows, boosting reserves Wow! https://t.co/wmv07HkTCK 46.3K views · 678 likes · 115 reposts · 24 replies 02 Sep 2026