Joe Pike ✓

@joepike · Westminster, UK · joined 22 Jun 2008

I report on politics for @BBCNews | Author of Project Fear - Books of The Year, The Guardian & The Independent | Story? DM or joe.pike@bbc.co.uk

55 344Followers

3 712Following

22 656Posts total

77KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Joe Pike ✓@joepike6 Sep

How new is Andy Burnham’s Labour? Sunday Newscast is back with @bbclaurak @hzeffman and me: https://t.co/4eyxD3Z0VY 3K views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Joe Pike ✓@joepike5 Sep

How damaging is Reform’s donations row? Saturday Newscast with @bbclaurak @ChrisMasonBBC and me at the party’s conference in Birmingham: https://t.co/rCdJ1aJAEy 1.7K views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joe Pike ✓@joepike31 Aug

NEW: Mel Stride OUT as shadow chancellor. 6.3K views · 25 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joe Pike ✓@joepike25 Aug

@joepike @BBCNews @JohnHealey_MP It used to be the second desired job after the PM, it must feel like a posiened chalace. Now. If you take hard decisions to fix, you are unpopular. But if you can't start to fix it , you are still unpopular. 115 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joe Pike ✓@joepike14 Aug

NEW: Farage tells GB News "maybe I haven't filled in a piece of paper" amid questions about his finances. Is this the nearest the Reform leader has been to an admission he should have registered the £5m "unconditional gift" he received from Christopher Harborne? Full quotes via 12.7K views · 51 likes · 18 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Joe Pike ✓@joepike5 Aug

@joepike @BBCNews @JohnHealey_MP Dear members of the American press! Steve Jobs once said, "If you can convince the press of your technology, and the press convinces us, we'll pay attention." That's why I'm reaching out to you. For years, the development of personal devices ha 52 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joe Pike ✓@joepike21 Jul

@joepike @BBCNews @JohnHealey_MP Nicely done 👍🏼 1.2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Joe Pike ✓@joepike20 Jul

VIDEO: What will a new PM mean for government policy and all of our lives? Our @BBCNews report on Burnham’s plans including an impromptu encounter with the new chancellor @JohnHealey_MP… https://t.co/CmD8evTPWx

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51.9K views · 28 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views2 368this account996median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.28%this account3.84%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.32%this account1.51%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 368	996	2.38×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.28%	3.84%	1.11×
Engagement rate	0.32%	1.51%	0.21×

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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

51.9K20 Jul

1.2K21 Jul

525 Aug

12.7K14 Aug

11525 Aug

6.3K31 Aug

1.7K5 Sep

3K6 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

0.07%20 Jul

0.16%21 Jul

11.54%5 Aug

0.72%14 Aug

0.87%25 Aug

0.46%31 Aug

0.17%5 Sep

0.13%6 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.51%.

What the audience does

Likes63.0%114 in total

Reposts14.9%27 in total

Replies13.3%24 in total

Quotes3.9%7 in total

Bookmarks5.0%9 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.