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Gerard Baker ✓

@gerardtbaker · New York, New York · joined 21 Dec 2010

Editor-at-Large & Columnist @WSJ, Columnist @thetimes. Telling people what they don’t want to hear.

41 154Followers
583Following
6 360Posts total
395.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

The comments here …A+. 2.5K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Donald Trump may say some “unpalatable” things, but when it comes to choosing relationships with superpowers, the choice between the US and China is “not really any choice at all”. #TimesRadio https://t.co/N9cDevjnUn 1.9K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Magnificent. Brings back such fiercely beloved memories. Dave Wakeling was one of the great under-recognized songwriters of that time. Terrific taste in shirts too. And the sound from that ensemble!. Glory days. 4.2K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
AI promises boom, doom and both at once. The companies’ calls for regulation may be self-dealing, but that doesn’t make them wrong. #WSJopinion https://t.co/qoi0xg2ttZ 1.3K views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
One moment we are in the midst of one of the great investment booms of all time, next we are advised to put our affairs in order and prepare for the extermination of humanity. #AI #WSJopinion https://t.co/U0vL1AWLaw 770 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@gerardtbaker The answer is would you accept his apology, I don't think so. He has made a statement praising the British armed forces. He knows he eff'd up. 36 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@gerardtbaker @afneil Where’s the lie https://t.co/g4XUhygQ3G
60 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@gerardtbaker Ask your US servicemen & women who served alongside British, Canadian, Danish & other @NATO forces (called in at the behest of tbe USA under Article 5) how they feel about the Trump comments. I think their voices should be loudly heard. I’m sure they will be equall 255 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
Trying to imagine the pain the families of these fallen must be feeling about the commander-in-chief of the nation under whose leadership they served and died casually deprecating their sacrifice. Just disgusting. 49.4K views · 671 likes · 112 reposts · 34 replies Open on X →
This is the answer to Trump. A decent man would apologize, profusely. Heck, a decent man would not have said those words at all. https://t.co/wRR9VnTxBN
335.3K views · 6.8K likes · 1.5K reposts · 269 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 850this account1 021median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.50%this account4.02%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.26%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post1 8501 0211.81×
Reach (views ÷ followers)4.50%4.02%1.12×
Engagement rate0.26%1.55%0.17×

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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

335.3K23 Jan
49.4K
255
60
3625 Jan
77018 Sep
1.3K
4.2K
1.9K
2.5K20 Sep

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

2.55%23 Jan
1.66%
1.57%
0.00%
2.78%25 Jan
0.26%18 Sep
0.08%
0.48%
0.27%
0.00%20 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes78.2%7 450 in total
Reposts16.5%1 573 in total
Replies3.2%309 in total
Quotes0.7%70 in total
Bookmarks1.3%125 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

20 Sep

Daily snapshots since 20 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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