Jon Sopel ✓

@jonsopel · UK · joined 06 Apr 2010

Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of forthcoming book, Strangeland. Order now or come to one of the events https://t.co/Y7BGxIbMK9

287 864Followers

1 499Following

26 223Posts total

37.6MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views715 866this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %248.68%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.45%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	715 866	21 891	32.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.5× audience	6.81%	36.5×
Engagement rate	0.45%	1.14%	0.39×

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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

232.9K29 May

1M14 Aug

632.7K

152.4K16 Aug

799K

34.7M27 Aug

42K

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

0.24%29 May

0.46%14 Aug

1.09%

0.25%16 Aug

0.43%

0.41%27 Aug

1.74%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes59.4%94 119 in total

Reposts8.2%12 987 in total

Replies24.1%38 222 in total

Quotes7.9%12 567 in total

Bookmarks0.3%430 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

Really hope the Ottawa government declare that Lake Michigan is now Lake Canada. This is all utterly puerile 42K views · 635 likes · 38 reposts · 58 replies 27 Aug 2026 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Lake Ontario is renamed to LAKE AMERICA! 🇺🇸 https://t.co/ZFww8PexiW 34.7M views · 80.7K likes · 11.5K reposts · 36.5K replies 27 Aug 2026 Video of fire on baggage container with luggage to be loaded onto BA585 just now at Milan Malpensa. Smart move to get the other containers out of the way before fire spread. If cause was lithium battery glad fire was there and not on plane https://t.co/hlcleDC0Ak 799K views · 2.9K likes · 320 reposts · 145 replies 16 Aug 2026 Suspect this might delay BA585 out of Milan Malpensa. Glad I didn’t check any bags…. @British_Airways https://t.co/biNoreQwBG 152.4K views · 327 likes · 26 reposts · 21 replies 16 Aug 2026 You really think it’s as clear cut as that? Sure Cambridge have questions to answer. But this became obsessive and ugly bloodsport for certain sections of the press, that was about way more than plagiarism. 632.7K views · 5.4K likes · 645 reposts · 823 replies 14 Aug 2026 On Arday, if it is as claimed… The only thing that kept the horrible sorry saga going was the wilfully blind defence offered up and the vicious smears on anyone questioning the very obvious. Cambridge and its guilty defenders could have investigated this all months ago, but 1M views · 3.8K likes · 405 reposts · 469 replies 14 Aug 2026 The paperback edition out today, with new chapter on Trump, Musk and Farage (which sounds like a dodgy law firm…..) https://t.co/UgXtOMhoZK 232.9K views · 307 likes · 44 reposts · 207 replies 29 May 2025