Edward Stringer ✓

@edwardstrngr65 · London, Ripon, Nowhere · joined 18 Dec 2010

Retired RAF Air Marshal | Trustee of Imperial War Museum | Senior Fellow of Policy Exchange https://t.co/f9TbBJtrvc

17 358Followers

2 969Following

14 124Posts total

107.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views7 632this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %43.97%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.00%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	7 632	3 383	2.26×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	43.97%	10.96%	4.01×
Engagement rate	1.00%	1.40%	0.71×

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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

23.9K2 Sep

19.2K

43K

10K

5.3K

1.6K

2.4K3 Sep

1.9K

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

0.26%2 Sep

0.19%

1.87%

1.56%

0.87%

1.12%

0.33%3 Sep

2.74%

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

What the audience does

Likes84.1%1 003 in total

Reposts9.6%114 in total

Replies4.1%49 in total

Quotes1.3%15 in total

Bookmarks0.9%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

Our @Policy_Exchange report on the continuing persecution of SAS veterans of The Troubles is given an airing in @TheCriticMag 1.9K views · 38 likes · 10 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 Veterans of the violence in Northern Ireland should be left alone, argues @edwardstrngr65 https://t.co/4YMgsGzAgk 2.4K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 This could have been lifted whole from the published MOD Integrated Operating Concept of 2020. Viz, maintain above threshold deterrence, build operating capacity below to diffuse Russian effectiveness. 1.6K views · 14 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 All of this is true, relevant, and should absolutely be countered. BUT, important to remember that Russia’s only restricting itself to all this ‘sub-threshold’ stuff because it fears to go *above* threshold… i.e. NATO’s deterrence against open warfare is holding, for now. 1/2 5.3K views · 36 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 .@Mr_Andrew_Fox is quite right here. What makes our soldiers lawful combatants under the protections of international conventions is that they operate within the Laws of Armed Conflict. This is vital to discipline and, following the just war tradition, moral authority. 1/2 10K views · 129 likes · 24 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 Another ridiculous policy from Reform. British troops do not need a free pass to commit war crimes. They simply need a guarantee that they will not be dragged through the courts on spurious grounds, and mechanisms to ensure allegations are dealt with in a timely manner. 43K views · 704 likes · 61 reposts · 30 replies 02 Sep 2026 Juxtapose these two stories… https://t.co/49Ma2CoHiu 19.2K views · 27 likes · 4 reposts · 4 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 23.9K views · 48 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 Is 'The West' at war with Russia? Ask two questions: Has The West firmly stated that it is politically opposed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and wishes to see it fail? Is it in the interest of future West European security to see Russia be defeated in Ukraine? 1/11 0 views · 584 likes · 165 reposts · 48 replies 01 Apr 2022