Lionel Barber ✓

@lionelbarber · London · joined 04 Jan 2013

Editor, Financial Times 2005-20. Author of Gambling Man, a biography of SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. Co-host of Media Confidential podcast. Recovering Spurs fan

105 905Followers

1 139Following

14 172Posts total

12.9MViews 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 views25 371this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %23.96%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.43%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	25 371	21 891	1.16×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	23.96%	6.81%	3.52×
Engagement rate	0.43%	1.14%	0.37×

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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

11.8K20 Aug

7.2K

12.8M22 Aug

41.6K

39K2 Sep

3.1K

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

0.32%20 Aug

0.22%

0.53%22 Aug

2.63%

0.57%2 Sep

0.20%

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

What the audience does

Likes72.0%50 078 in total

Reposts12.6%8 750 in total

Replies10.7%7 475 in total

Quotes4.6%3 169 in total

Bookmarks0.1%96 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

The rise and fall of Apollo’s Leon Black, the bare-knuckled billionaire. My review of Bill Cohan’s bloated biography (spoiler- there’s killer detail too) https://t.co/kQVRIqpJrg 3.1K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Huge FT scoop which confirms essence of @anneapplebaum prescient book Autocracy Inc and challenge to American power; Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles https://t.co/MinkJTTVfm via @ft 39K views · 156 likes · 60 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 Carney demonstrates the essence of leadership: embrace the economic and political risks, and understand the longer term value of standing up to a bully. Too many other leaders in the west have failed the test 41.6K views · 875 likes · 196 reposts · 17 replies 22 Aug 2026 My statement on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations: https://t.co/65OuQH40ra 12.8M views · 49K likes · 8.5K reposts · 7.4K replies 22 Aug 2026 The death of Jason Arday has triggered a torrent of grief, outrage and wild accusations against journalists. @arusbridger and I discuss this modern media morality play https://t.co/uyDQZDADk4 7.2K views · 5 likes · 6 reposts · 4 replies 20 Aug 2026 My post on Jason Arday and the freedom of the press - edited and updated in response to reader comments and the extraordinary and necessary Guardian NUJ statement defending colleagues right to their jobs as journalists in the wake of racist abuse and threats 11.8K views · 27 likes · 3 reposts · 7 replies 20 Aug 2026