Patrick Wintour ✓

@patrickwintour · London · joined 30 Mar 2009

Guardian Diplomatic Editor.

87 970Followers

1 031Following

29 368Posts total

27.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 115this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.54%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.36%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 115	2 896	1.08×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.54%	9.51%	0.37×
Engagement rate	0.36%	1.56%	0.23×

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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

8K24 Aug

8.8K

2.5K26 Aug

2.9K30 Aug

3.3K31 Aug

2.2K1 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

0.05%24 Aug

0.44%

0.60%26 Aug

1.29%30 Aug

0.27%31 Aug

0.14%1 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes62.8%76 in total

Reposts14.9%18 in total

Replies7.4%9 in total

Quotes4.1%5 in total

Bookmarks10.7%13 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 EU welcomes efforts at ensuring that Iran ceases its destabilising activities and engages in peace negotiations with good faith, also through additional economic pressure, including through the US led Operation Economic Outcast. “The EU will continue to work closely with the 2.2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 China hawk, Russia hawk, Iran hawk, also eager to end the financial hideaways that British overseas territories provide corrupt authoritarians, and, of course, a onetime opponent of Brexit. In terms of energy and flexible brainpower, a step up on what went before. 3.3K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 31 Aug 2026 Ezio Mauro in La Repubblica “As if plunged into a South American novel, Donald Trump is now a prisoner in his own labyrinth. The most powerful man on the planet, who has transformed American doctrine into strength, politics into command, alliances into domination, is unable to 2.9K views · 29 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies 30 Aug 2026 Meta in $17b settlement over predatory pursuit of children’s social media attention. “The settlement will effectively force Meta to make major product changes for all U.S. users. The company agreed to interrupt endless scrolling and to impose two-hour daily time limits on 2.5K views · 10 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 26 Aug 2026 Surprisingly unspecific neo-launch of new wave of sanctions against countries that trade with Iran, notably exclusion from the dollar system. Bessent at one point suggests the measures could lead to the blowing up of the world economic system, and then asks rhetorically why would 8.8K views · 26 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies 24 Aug 2026 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces Operation Economic Outcast- Economic D-Day on Iran “Iran now faces a very clear choice, with only two paths before them: complete global isolation and a subsistence economy or a path back to normalcy with an opportunity to rejoin the h 8K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 24 Aug 2026