Faisal Islam ✓

@faisalislam · London(head) Manchester(heart) · joined 04 Mar 2009

Econ Editor, BBC News. Newsnight presenter. Host award-winning EUref TV interviews & 2017 GE debate. United ST. occasional Eurovision vocalist 😆

366 097Followers

11 595Following

87 538Posts total

148.5KViews on collected posts

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Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam19h

Unusual deliberations 17.4K views · 19 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam21h

President Trump says he has confidence in Fed Chair Kevin Warsh despite interest rate raise: "I'm relying on Kevin but he's got, you know, a very tough board... and the interest rates are too high." https://t.co/hbnBJzorTO

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Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam23h

Quick take - two big judgements from the Bank today - inflation contained for now, rate rises if gulf disruption continued, and pausing the active market auctions of its stockpile of Government debt (just under half a trillion bought to support Govt in financial crisis and https:

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Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam17 Sep

@faisalislam The pausing of the QT auctions long overdue, why on earth have they been doing this in the current financial climate, is there any real need to auction them off other than ideological obsession? 733 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam17 Sep

@faisalislam Stick to politics Faisal. AI isn’t your station. 969 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam17 Sep

NEW Bank of England hold interest rates with a 6-3 vote. Says q3 growth will now be 0.4% - in a surprise move the Bank’s auctions of Government debt (amassed for QE) are paused, and the Bank has decided to hold on to its stock of long term debts, partly to back up total 39.4K views · 87 likes · 19 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam17 Sep

@faisalislam absolute balls 634 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam17 Sep

@faisalislam I knew no good would come from the sex toy industry. Meddling with nature. 2.3K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam17 Sep

A “new silicon species”. Blimey. 39.9K views · 84 likes · 7 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam16 Sep

IN DEPTH: data centres. Even before the questions about the fate of humanity, a backlash against data centres was emerging in the US around the mid term elections was starting to echo around the world, in relation to electricity prices, water use and planning… in the US that 10.5K views · 28 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Faisal Islam ✓@faisalislam8 Jul 2019

Hello all - I’m back on here, back in economics and after a few weeks wilfully getting lost in transit, am newly on here👇🏾, and shortly on air in a new role as Economics Editor of the BBC.. first take on data, trade wars, Brexit, fiscal gymnastics...👋 https://t.co/3ZFevXzDG8 0 views · 3.1K likes · 478 reposts · 656 replies Open on X →

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10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views7 808this account5 995median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.13%this account1.62%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.31%this account1.03%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	7 808	5 995	1.30×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.13%	1.62%	1.32×
Engagement rate	0.31%	1.03%	0.30×

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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

10.5K16 Sep

39.9K17 Sep

2.3K

634

39.4K

969

733

5.1K

31.5K

17.4K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.42%16 Sep

0.27%17 Sep

0.30%

0.32%

0.33%

0.10%

0.41%

0.14%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.03%.

What the audience does

Likes62.9%269 in total

Reposts12.4%53 in total

Replies10.5%45 in total

Quotes4.0%17 in total

Bookmarks10.3%44 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.

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