Helen Warrell

@helenwarrell

FT investigations. Previously defence & security editor, political and home affairs correspondent. Get in touch: helen.warrell@ft.com

7 845Followers

1 367Following

2 407Posts total

114.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Helen Warrell@helenwarrell4 Sep

@helenwarrell @ftweekend @ramshodgson Big questions for @Cambridge_Uni and The Divinity Faculty who appointed James Orr @jtworr . They need to move fast to investigate him, and then remove James Orr from post at Cambridge following their Jason Arday tragedy. 981 views · 35 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Helen Warrell@helenwarrell4 Sep

@helenwarrell @archer_rs @ftweekend @ramshodgson It’s beyond my comprehension how anyone who associates with the likes of Peter Thiel and Victor Orban’s failed populist ideas can call themselves truly Christian. 429 views · 18 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Helen Warrell@helenwarrell3 Sep

@helenwarrell @ftweekend @ramshodgson Isn’t the holier than thou chap? Entertaining to see him on video in the channel 4 piece. Clearly got negotiable morals when it suits him. 1.5K views · 24 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Helen Warrell@helenwarrell3 Sep

James Orr: Reform’s head of policy, Cambridge theologian, architect of the new British right. Our profile for @ftweekend looks at his links to the Maga movement, Silicon Valley & European populists, and his life as a Cambridge lecturer with @ramshodgson https://t.co/w8joFf69tZ 111.9K views · 507 likes · 247 reposts · 31 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 236this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %15.76%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %3.30%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 236	4 175	0.30×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.76%	2.5× audience	0.06×
Engagement rate	3.30%	1.41%	2.34×

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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

111.9K3 Sep

1.5K

4294 Sep

981

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

0.73%3 Sep

1.81%

5.13%4 Sep

4.79%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes54.1%584 in total

Reposts24.3%262 in total

Replies3.1%34 in total

Quotes3.1%34 in total

Bookmarks15.4%166 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.