The Herald ✓

@heraldscotland · Scotland · joined 21 Jun 2010

The official X page of the world’s longest-running national newspaper. Join us online and in print for opinion, news and unrivalled insight.

122 966Followers

1 400Following

457 944Posts total

20.1KViews on collected posts

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The Herald ✓@heraldscotland8 Sep

'Look, it’s entirely irrelevant in the great scheme of things if Sturgeon is prepared to trash her reputation for money. That’s between her and her soul. 'But what she’s doing matters far beyond her image.' 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘑𝘦𝘷𝘥𝘦𝘵/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 https://t.co/uynIiuDpTr

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The Herald ✓@heraldscotland8 Sep

@heraldscotland https://t.co/4CVX1fSYRo 356 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Herald ✓@heraldscotland8 Sep

Videos on social media appeared to show officers "kettling" a group dressed in all black near Glasgow Queen Street Station 👇 https://t.co/tsNJxUnv24

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The Herald ✓@heraldscotland8 Sep

Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will take on the role of deputy prime minister in a new Sky series exploring how Britain might respond to a Russian attack on UK soil 👇 https://t.co/4B0cNUXK5c

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The Herald ✓@heraldscotland8 Sep

'Five months on and what’s clear from the consultation is that Ministers haven’t the foggiest idea how the policy would work' 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 https://t.co/YeO5s7Pv7h

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The Herald ✓@heraldscotland8 Sep

@heraldscotland https://t.co/oXoxLqAf9Z @RozFoyer @ScottishTUC 212 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Herald ✓@heraldscotland8 Sep

'If government reform begins with removing tens of thousands of the people who actually deliver our public services, then government should be honest and call a spade a spade; it's a cut by any other name.' 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘩/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 https://t.co/JYEugAK6pS

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The Herald ✓@heraldscotland12 Aug

@heraldscotland https://t.co/mFsER6Nfdf @DonaldAErskine 317 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

The Herald ✓@heraldscotland12 Aug

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Pipes and Drums playing on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 https://t.co/uSVSCUmmFG

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7.4K views · 166 likes · 16 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

The Herald ✓@heraldscotland16 Feb

@heraldscotland @_RebeccaMcCurdy Evil vicious racist transphobic gargoyle. 1.2K views · 131 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

The Herald ✓@heraldscotland16 Feb

@heraldscotland @_RebeccaMcCurdy Dr Upton is a man who harassed a woman in a female-only changing room. He is a man asserting a right to access a female-only space because he wants to. 2K views · 163 likes · 6 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

The Herald ✓@heraldscotland16 Feb

@heraldscotland @_RebeccaMcCurdy She's coming across as vindictive and vexatious against someone on the other side of the world. Clearly, someone is bankrolling her with a blank cheque book. 4.9K views · 181 likes · 5 reposts · 42 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views628this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.51%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.16%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	628	5 983	0.10×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.51%	1.49%	0.34×
Engagement rate	0.16%	0.93%	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

4.9K16 Feb

1.2K

7.4K12 Aug

317

9528 Sep

212

589

628

815

356

747

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.64%16 Feb

8.84%

11.77%

2.48%12 Aug

0.00%

0.21%8 Sep

0.00%

0.17%

0.16%

0.25%

0.00%

0.13%

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

What the audience does

Likes86.3%642 in total

Reposts4.2%31 in total

Replies8.2%61 in total

Bookmarks1.3%10 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

8 Sep

Daily snapshots since 08 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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