Oliver Carroll ✓

@olliecarroll · Ukraine · joined 04 Mar 2009

Chief Ukraine Correspondent for @TheEconomist | Opinions strictly my own | DM for Signal

137 618Followers

3 108Following

20 219Posts total

181.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views22 554this account4 505median for 100K–1M

Reach, %16.39%this account1.88%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.25%this account1.48%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	22 554	4 505	5.01×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	16.39%	1.88%	8.72×
Engagement rate	1.25%	1.48%	0.84×

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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

20.2K19 Aug

73K23 Aug

11.5K24 Aug

40K25 Aug

12K4 Sep

24.9K

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

2.12%19 Aug

0.60%23 Aug

0.24%24 Aug

1.98%25 Aug

1.90%4 Sep

0.60%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.48%.

What the audience does

Likes73.7%1 687 in total

Reposts12.3%281 in total

Replies3.7%85 in total

Quotes0.4%10 in total

Bookmarks9.9%226 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 difference is that right now Russia has the weapons to do this type of attack. Ukraine does not. But it might soon. No doubt, then we are in very dangerous territory. 24.9K views · 113 likes · 20 reposts · 16 replies 04 Sep 2026 About 40 mins ago a Russian drone — possibly a missile — hit the security services building in central Kyiv. A major rescue effort is under way. Real sense is of security in the capital deteriorating fast: new Russian precision weapons, and too few interceptors. https://t.co/5ElV 12K views · 156 likes · 63 reposts · 8 replies 04 Sep 2026 I showed this post to Ukrainian officials and they burst out laughing. No one serious here cares about sartorial choice. I rather think they liked the informality. 40K views · 691 likes · 80 reposts · 20 replies 25 Aug 2026 Great reported details from Pjotr here. 11.5K views · 24 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 24 Aug 2026 I tried to trace the life of Margarita Reutt, the 32-year-old Russian woman accused of assassinating a commander in Russia’s Black Sea Fleet submarine brigade https://t.co/Q4kN7uV2IW 73K views · 362 likes · 68 reposts · 2 replies 23 Aug 2026 Tragedy for Zelensky in Fedorov drama is that when he made decision to fire him he made an uber loyal member of his team an opponent. The arguments Fedorov made for elections yday he first made as a pitch to get Ze re-elected in autumn. Now it sounds very different. 20.2K views · 341 likes · 46 reposts · 39 replies 19 Aug 2026