Richard Johnson

@richardmarcj

Senior Lecturer at @QMPoliticsIR @QMUL. Author of books on US and UK politics. Co-host of 'Since Attlee & Churchill' podcast with @LeeDavidEvansUK.

11 363Followers

3 706Following

42 434Posts total

261.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views9 562this account1 637median for 10K–100K

Reach, %84.15%this account5.01%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.06%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	9 562	1 637	5.84×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	84.15%	5.01%	16.8×
Engagement rate	1.06%	1.81%	0.59×

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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

240.5K26 Aug

11K

8.1K

1.8K27 Aug

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.66%26 Aug

0.91%

1.22%

4.48%27 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.

What the audience does

Likes70.5%1 410 in total

Reposts13.2%264 in total

Replies7.9%159 in total

Quotes2.3%47 in total

Bookmarks6.0%121 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

@richardmarcj A no deal for Canada would mean returning to the status quo (unless the other vindictive party decides to escalate by imposing higher tariffs).. A no deal for the UK would have automatically meant WTO tariffs (instead of the tariff & quota free deal we got, that 1.8K views · 67 likes · 13 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 Michael Barbaro: That seems VERY unusual -- in the sense that the US is asking Canada, and I'm being a little facetious here, to operate as a 51st state. To force US trade policy on another country is to take that country's ability to negotiate trade deals away. Martina 8.1K views · 84 likes · 7 reposts · 8 replies 26 Aug 2026 The recent episode on the New York Times podcast 'The Daily' was a good example of this. I was just imagining if one swapped 'UK' for 'Canada' and 'EU' for 'US' in this discussion... Martina Stevis-Gridnef (Canada correspondent): One really important element that came quite late 11K views · 87 likes · 9 reposts · 4 replies 26 Aug 2026 The coverage of Canada's refusal to do a trade deal with the US, at the expense of a 'no deal' solution with their biggest trading partner, strikes me as curiously, but not very logically, different from the 2018-19 coverage over Brexit and UK-EU trade policy. Canada is 240.5K views · 1.2K likes · 235 reposts · 147 replies 26 Aug 2026 @woodgnomology @GuitarMoog @NicolaSturgeon https://t.co/Xn8i74wsNb 0 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 30 Jul 2019