Jim Waterson ✓

@jimwaterson · joined 19 Mar 2009

Rarely check X, try Bluesky...Journalist. Editor of London Centric, a modern news outlet for London. WhatsApp me: +447760993558, https://t.co/SbRXlWSfIC

241 762Followers

2 767Following

4 755Posts total

143.2KViews on collected posts

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

9.1K29 Apr

13.7K24 Jul

22.1K14 Sep

63.9K22 Sep

1.5K

356

31.9K9 Jan

484

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

0.26%29 Apr

1.07%24 Jul

0.46%14 Sep

0.66%22 Sep

0.19%

0.56%

0.31%9 Jan

0.21%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes76.1%677 in total

Reposts9.7%86 in total

Replies3.1%28 in total

Quotes0.9%8 in total

Bookmarks10.2%91 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

@jimwaterson @grok https://t.co/Ma4SmL8t0P 484 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 09 Jan 2026 @grok generate an image of this site burning down 31.9K views · 91 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 09 Jan 2026 @jimwaterson @owenjonesjourno https://t.co/XvC4oj1rzr 356 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 22 Sep 2025 @jimwaterson The piece about who owns certain shops in Princes Street in Edinburgh was a top class investigation. Superb journalism. 👏👏 1.5K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 22 Sep 2025 Quit my job a year ago to start a local news site called London Centric. Broke a load of stories that bigger outlets rip off. No investors/ads. Amazingly, people paid to subscribe and it might just work. Here’s what I’ve been up to if you're intrigued. https://t.co/U9a9BM669v 63.9K views · 369 likes · 40 reposts · 11 replies 22 Sep 2025 Who keeps crashing cars at speed into the front of this Tesco Express in east London? It’s happened four times in the last three weeks. It looks like a robbery - but London Centric has learned nothing is stolen and it appears to be the same driver. https://t.co/IgLYmlPdzH 22.1K views · 85 likes · 9 reposts · 7 replies 14 Sep 2025 He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? https://t.co/YTFTu2Zpcz 13.7K views · 109 likes · 29 reposts · 4 replies 24 Jul 2025 Bookswap libraries are returning to the London Underground after six weeks of negotiations between Sadiq Khan, TfL and the London Fire Brigade and following the purchase of fire safe cabinets.... but only at above ground stations for now (so not the inner London tube stations). 9.1K views · 20 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 29 Apr 2025

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