Gideon Rachman ✓

@gideonrachman

The chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times shares his views

133 028Followers

1 014Following

30 975Posts total

25.3KViews on collected posts

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Gideon Rachman ✓@gideonrachman15 Jul

@gideonrachman Russia didn't start a war in 2022, they just supported one side in a civil war that started in 2014 (having spent 8 years faithfully trying to stop it). All western countries signed up to the Minsk accords of 2015 with - now admitted - no intention of actually impl 392 views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gideon Rachman ✓@gideonrachman15 Jul

@gideonrachman Biden, as VP, organised the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014, and the new government (handpicked by Victoria Nuland) attacked the civilians of east Ukraine, causing a still ongoing civil war. 329 views · 0 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gideon Rachman ✓@gideonrachman15 Jul

@gideonrachman Poor Kirill used to be quite personable when he could still pose as part an Ivy League educated global elite, to which he desperately wanted to belong, before he judged that his best career option was to become Groom of the Stool for the president of China’s newest 1K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Gideon Rachman ✓@gideonrachman15 Jul

Yes. I’ll never understand why he invaded Ukraine 23.6K views · 196 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views702this account6 277median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.53%this account1.78%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.56%this account1.12%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	702	6 277	0.11×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.53%	1.78%	0.30×
Engagement rate	0.56%	1.12%	0.50×

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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

23.6K15 Jul

329

392

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.86%15 Jul

0.40%

0.61%

0.51%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.12%.

What the audience does

Likes94.3%200 in total

Reposts1.9%4 in total

Replies2.8%6 in total

Bookmarks0.9%2 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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