Gregg Carlstrom ✓

@glcarlstrom · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · joined 09 Apr 2008

Middle East correspondent, @TheEconomist. Author, 'How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within.' Speaking engagements: https://t.co/z7XQKsXskO

127 925Followers

1 118Following

64 998Posts total

741.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views28 780this account22 159median for 100K–1M

Reach, %22.50%this account6.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.70%this account1.18%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	28 780	22 159	1.30×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	22.50%	6.71%	3.35×
Engagement rate	0.70%	1.18%	0.59×

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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

26.5K2 Sep

623.7K3 Sep

31K

8.3K

42K

10.3K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.24%2 Sep

0.29%3 Sep

0.61%

0.54%

0.78%

1.21%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.18%.

What the audience does

Likes62.4%1 987 in total

Reposts15.3%488 in total

Replies6.3%202 in total

Quotes5.6%177 in total

Bookmarks10.4%331 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

At Jebel Ali, the largest port in the Middle East: "Volumes plunged more than 90% in the early weeks of the conflict, according to DP World executives, and have barely recovered since." A data point to keep in mind when people in Washington claim America is wrenching the strait 10.3K views · 84 likes · 36 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 "White House officials will consider ramping up military action after the November 3 vote." Seems plausible that they will. Some in Iran hope that a Democratic victory in the midterms would hasten the end of the war. But a wounded, lame-duck Trump is likely to be a more 42K views · 220 likes · 82 reposts · 14 replies 03 Sep 2026 "China's aircraft [in Egypt] were the first to stage mock combat with French-made Rafale fighters, which are used by Egypt but also by India, whose border dispute with China flared into deadly clashes in 2020." https://t.co/Gk6p2sgW9Q 8.3K views · 28 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 He can declare it whatever he wants, but if American warships are still blockading Iranian ports and escorting oil tankers through Hormuz then, um, it's not actually over 31K views · 155 likes · 27 reposts · 4 replies 03 Sep 2026 NEW: Privately, Trump is having discussions with senior aides about whether to declare the Iran war over, U.S. officials said, noting Trump has said he favors the idea. Trump also believes economic pressure will force the regime to dismantle its nuclear program or collapse. 623.7K views · 1.3K likes · 258 reposts · 158 replies 03 Sep 2026 "For the first time on record, Iran has gone about seven weeks without shipping meaningful crude exports through the Strait of Hormuz." So in operational terms, the blockade is working. But throttling oil exports is a means, not an end. The question is when/if it compels a 26.5K views · 227 likes · 73 reposts · 19 replies 02 Sep 2026