Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓

@grantshapps · Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire · joined 08 Mar 2008

Co-Founder of Cambridge Aerospace | Former Secretary of State for Defence, Business, Home, Transport, and Energy Security.

186 616Followers

2 175Following

11 963Posts total

408KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓@grantshapps17 Sep

If the EU can invent “associate membership” for Canada, why not offer it to Ukraine too? Five reasons why it should: 1. Ukraine is European – geographically, historically and politically. Canada is a close ally, but Ukraine is part of Europe. 2. Ukraine is fighting for its 12.6K views · 56 likes · 5 reposts · 120 replies Open on X →

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓@grantshapps14 Sep

Yesterday a Russian drone destroyed a locomotive at Yahodyn, just two kilometres from the Polish border. Shortly beforehand, a train carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and European national security advisers had left the same station — deliberately ahead of schedule. Ukraine's 26.2K views · 206 likes · 56 reposts · 273 replies Open on X →

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓@grantshapps10 Sep

Last week I set out every Russian attack on European soil proven in court or formally attributed by a government. Nine cases. Here's the surprising reason why that list may stop growing. NATO has reportedly foiled a Russian operation in the Arctic rehearsing a weapon designed 57.7K views · 242 likes · 84 reposts · 25 replies Open on X →

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓@grantshapps7 Sep

The Chancellor made his first big speech today, and the diagnosis was right. He said the state needs to be active in removing the blockages that stop businesses investing. Good to hear a Chancellor say it. But that raises a question. If private capital is willing to back 7.7K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓@grantshapps4 Sep

The Falklands are British. The islanders settled that themselves. For two years Milei has promised investors Argentina won't change the rules on them. There's a bill before Argentina's Congress to guarantee it. There's another one punishing anyone who holds shares in a firm 9.5K views · 89 likes · 10 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓@grantshapps3 Sep

@grantshapps Stop arming Ukraine with deep strike missiles. You can't turn it into a proxy war then be surprised when Russia retaliates. 905 views · 37 likes · 2 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓@grantshapps2 Sep

@grantshapps We don't believe you Remember Nordstream? Russia Russia !! Yeh Not Russia 1.3K views · 69 likes · 2 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps ✓@grantshapps2 Sep

Yesterday, Germany named Russia as responsible for the drone attack on Leipzig-Halle Airport. Berlin summoned the Russian ambassador, ordered the consulate in Bonn to close, shut the Russian House in Berlin, and raised its national threat level. So I went back through the 292.1K views · 2.1K likes · 694 reposts · 187 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views11 022this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %5.91%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.33%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	11 022	5 983	1.84×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.91%	1.49%	3.96×
Engagement rate	1.33%	0.93%	1.43×

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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

292.1K2 Sep

1.3K

9053 Sep

9.5K4 Sep

7.7K7 Sep

57.7K10 Sep

26.2K14 Sep

12.6K17 Sep

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

1.05%2 Sep

6.18%

5.19%3 Sep

1.16%4 Sep

0.26%7 Sep

0.62%10 Sep

2.11%14 Sep

1.50%17 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes57.3%2 811 in total

Reposts17.4%853 in total

Replies13.0%638 in total

Quotes2.6%128 in total

Bookmarks9.7%477 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.