Ian Birrell

@ianbirrell · London (Sometimes) · joined 10 May 2010

Foreign correspondent, columnist, campaigner, co-founder @africaexpress, citizen of the world and a bit more besides...

40 855Followers

1 702Following

51 073Posts total

37KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ian Birrell@ianbirrell11 Sep

'Lauding Ukrainian resilience is not a strategy, and courage alone cannot defend its cities or win its war. Ukraine has bought the West four years with the blood of its soldiers and the ingenuity of its engineers. We cannot let it face another winter alone under Russian 1.6K views · 18 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ian Birrell@ianbirrell9 Sep

Terrific @unherd piece 👇 6.6K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ian Birrell@ianbirrell9 Sep

He made his career ragebaiting leftist hypocrisy and was the darling of MAGA, helping elect 3 right-wing presidents Now, he's behind bars for the attempted murder of his lover @unherd I cover the telenovela of @laderechadiario founder Fernando Cerimedo https://t.co/UYUeJXZ0cq 11.5K views · 37 likes · 27 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ian Birrell@ianbirrell7 Sep

So will the government deal with these masked far-right thugs blocking roads as forcefully as they have dealt with environmental and pro-Palestinian protesters? 13.9K views · 141 likes · 44 reposts · 24 replies Open on X →

Ian Birrell@ianbirrell6 Sep

Putin is becoming desperate, his stupid war is spiralling, the threat and dangers are rising. My @theipaper column https://t.co/4sXQLsW7tY 1.6K views · 5 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ian Birrell@ianbirrell4 Sep

It would be a national emergency if Farage ever won power… 1.8K views · 22 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 191this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %10.26%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.10%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 191	924	4.54×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	10.26%	3.62%	2.83×
Engagement rate	1.10%	1.52%	0.72×

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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

1.8K4 Sep

1.6K6 Sep

13.9K7 Sep

11.5K9 Sep

6.6K

1.6K11 Sep

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

1.76%4 Sep

0.70%6 Sep

1.50%7 Sep

0.57%9 Sep

0.14%

1.64%11 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes64.9%229 in total

Reposts26.1%92 in total

Replies8.8%31 in total

Bookmarks0.3%1 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.