laurence norman

@laurnorman · Europe · joined 11 May 2010

In Europe for The Wall Street Journal. Cover Iran nuclear, Ukraine war, EU, Europe foreign policy & anything else that comes my way. My RT, someone else's view.

48 495Followers

4 550Following

96 614Posts total

389.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views3 904this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.05%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.35%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 904	2 896	1.35×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.05%	9.51%	0.85×
Engagement rate	0.35%	1.56%	0.22×

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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

88.3K18 Jun

2.6K2 Sep

287.7K

3.8K

3.2K3 Sep

Last 6 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%18 Jun

0.38%2 Sep

0.61%

0.26%

0.44%3 Sep

0.12%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes70.5%1 530 in total

Reposts13.1%284 in total

Replies10.5%227 in total

Quotes1.8%38 in total

Bookmarks4.2%92 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

For those seeking Blair’s answer to the Griffiths question that the Tories have just run with. 👇 4K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Precisely as we said. “Kallas also suggested that such changes would not work if they reduced her autonomy & made her answer to “someone else” — in this case, the Commission president. “If I have somebody above me who is actually deciding, then it doesn’t work that way.”Poli 3.2K views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Cette “willing suspension of belief.” Tres Macron. 3.8K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 L’odyssée : ✅ https://t.co/jqd0MqJOAv 287.7K views · 1.3K likes · 243 reposts · 201 replies 02 Sep 2026 For those extolling the Franco-British post Brexit entente cordiale over the Bayeux Tapestry etc I have only one word for you: SAFE. While the bilateral relationship does seem in good health — and that’s good news — Paris remains a major block on UKG’s EU closeness ambitions. 2.6K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Quite a photo. Having completely ignored the Europeans on Iran and berated their rejection of his war, @EmmanuelMacron manages to get @realDonaldTrump to sign the MoU in Versailles. https://t.co/veVDDKb6cY 88.3K views · 204 likes · 37 reposts · 25 replies 18 Jun 2026 Fairly sure I've stumbled upon a young Andrew Griffith taking Tony Blair to task on Labour modernisation on a Question Time leaders' special in April 1997. https://t.co/Aa3RJU1U1o 0 views · 318 likes · 49 reposts · 101 replies 04 Nov 2022