John Gapper

@johngapper · London · joined 16 May 2009

Chief UK Business Columnist of the Financial Times. London, ex-New York, with a bit of Tokyo. Not here very much.

26 805Followers

1 112Following

817Posts total

132.2KViews 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

127.8K27 Oct

279

410

1.2K12 Dec

1.3K25 Jan

3022 Mar

90712 May

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.84%27 Oct

0.72%

0.24%

0.34%12 Dec

0.85%25 Jan

0.66%2 Mar

0.22%12 May

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

What the audience does

Likes78.3%872 in total

Reposts11.3%126 in total

Replies4.5%50 in total

Quotes4.2%47 in total

Bookmarks1.6%18 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

4 Sep

Daily snapshots since 04 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

"They believe they are in a place that Burnham will be comfortable with" ie still in Manchester 907 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 12 May 2026 A lovely piece about being treated for kidney cancer at St Bart's and the wonder of modern medicine by Rosie Dastgir (my wife) https://t.co/nppG83gXvE 302 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Mar 2026 @johngapper Dedication like that shows true passion impressive commitment and perseverance over time! 0 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 22 Jul 2025 Sometimes a columnist comes across a story . . . https://t.co/M3gjGUNYmS 1.3K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 25 Jan 2025 My piece on a David and Goliath fight in the global berry market: Dyson vs Driscoll's . . . https://t.co/ZY7THl3mu0 1.2K views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 12 Dec 2024 @johngapper They have discovered not only how to create new money but also how to produce new units of time, and they didn't tell us? 410 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 27 Oct 2023 @johngapper @BenGartside https://t.co/PTRabwRxLx 279 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 27 Oct 2023 That is quite a time commitment https://t.co/YtIvdeqoWq 127.8K views · 855 likes · 124 reposts · 48 replies 27 Oct 2023