Julia Macfarlane

@juliamacfarlane · London, England · joined 05 Feb 2009

Away on mat leave | BBC Journalist/Presenter @bbcworldservice | Former @ABC foreign correspondent | Foreign affairs in my DNA 🇮🇩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

90 812Followers

5 583Following

97 748Posts total

1.1MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane3 Sep

BBC team reports from Banjarbaru, Indonesia where massive wildfires are causing haze across much of Southeast Asia https://t.co/eFQ0Qr23l2 2.3K views · 3 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane1 Sep

First Trump makes a deal to import rejected Argentinian beef, recently banned in China after detecting a banned antibiotic linked to rare blood disorders - and infuriating American cattle ranchers before midterms. Now he opens up Falklands policy, alienating US’s closest ally 82K views · 73 likes · 12 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane25 Aug

“America first” in action: 13.8K views · 34 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane19 Aug

“Maybe his death can offer us lessons in not rushing to glib judgements; in not joining the unthinking pack; and—above all—in keeping a sense of proportion and plain humanity.” @arusbridger https://t.co/ttbJ8CksUd 2.4K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane24 Feb

@juliamacfarlane The rest of the World won’t tolerate pedophiles but the Queen did, so no. Thanks. https://t.co/eJr6GpZXdc 287 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane24 Feb

@juliamacfarlane https://t.co/dZsJiS4B0H 294 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane24 Feb

@juliamacfarlane please explain how “fuck the queen” is in any way comparable to the N word 598 views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane24 Feb

“If the Queen of the United Kingdom can understand and ignore the tics and the swear words then why can't the rest of society?" John Davidson shouted “fuck the Queen” as she awarded him an MBE. She reacted with calm and kindness. https://t.co/CNfcxh6jYN 45.8K views · 2.7K likes · 315 reposts · 109 replies Open on X →

Julia Macfarlane@juliamacfarlane5 Jul 2023

One year to the day his Health Secretary and Chancellor resigned over his handling of the Chris Pincher affair (allegations of sexual assault that No10 denied knowing about) does Boris Johnson wish he had handled things differently? I asked the former PM. His response: a snore ht 975.3K views · 2.4K likes · 327 reposts · 174 replies Open on X →

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

Median views8 112this account968median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.93%this account3.43%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.21%this account1.91%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	8 112	968	8.38×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.93%	3.43%	2.60×
Engagement rate	0.21%	1.91%	0.11×

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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

975.3K5 Jul

45.8K24 Feb

598

294

287

2.4K19 Aug

13.8K25 Aug

82K1 Sep

2.3K3 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.31%5 Jul

6.78%24 Feb

2.84%

2.72%

2.44%

0.12%19 Aug

0.30%25 Aug

0.12%1 Sep

0.35%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.91%.

What the audience does

Likes72.9%5 208 in total

Reposts9.3%665 in total

Replies4.4%313 in total

Quotes2.0%144 in total

Bookmarks11.4%815 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

5 Sep

Daily snapshots since 05 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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