Tom Clark

@prospect_clark · Back in the West Riding · joined 04 Jun 2009

Contributing Editor, @prospect_uk. Principal Editor, @ResFoundation. Stints: @jrf_uk; @guardian; @theIFS. BROKE out now: https://t.co/jWSHf4QucE

21 475Followers

3 840Following

31 756Posts total

22.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views717this account2 392median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.34%this account7.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.15%this account1.50%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	717	2 392	0.30×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.34%	7.18%	0.47×
Engagement rate	0.15%	1.50%	0.10×

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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

17.5K27 Nov

58521 Jul

1.3K

7171 Aug

4833 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

0.78%27 Nov

0.17%21 Jul

0.15%

0.00%

0.14%1 Aug

1.66%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.50%.

What the audience does

Likes45.9%83 in total

Reposts29.8%54 in total

Replies6.1%11 in total

Quotes1.1%2 in total

Bookmarks17.1%31 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

No end in sight My chat with @FukuyamaFrancis -- as he looks back over his life & career, and forward into a wildly uncertain future https://t.co/Pa8iS2EZNT 483 views · 4 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Deleting earlier post re a Spectator piece that appeared to suggest Edinburgh was 600 miles from London, as I can’t tell if this came from the writer or the subject. Either way, I’d hope a sub would query, & if it came from subject, attributing it would have been wise 717 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Aug 2026 Featuring the forgotten lessons of 1945 1.3K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 21 Jul 2026 Andy Burnham is playing a political blinder, but still risks tripping up on Keir Starmer’s dilemmas, writes @prospect_clark https://t.co/3JFu7OV9n5 2K views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 21 Jul 2026 In 1945, Attlee made a last-minute swap of the man preparing to be his chancellor with a man well-set to be foreign secretary What lessons for Andy Burnham as he makes a similar swap? https://t.co/LHtQ0Zhpe8 585 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 21 Jul 2026 1/ Wealth has raced ahead of earnings, creating a new caste society Tax is only part of the answer: we also need a new political economy that differentiates good & bad wealth My major new @ippr report: Earning Vs Owning https://t.co/2y1sItCfNh https://t.co/Cwx1ATtRC2 17.5K views · 77 likes · 49 reposts · 10 replies 27 Nov 2024