Robert Ford

@robfordmancs · Manchester UK (not Toronto CA) · joined 15 Nov 2010

Politics Prof, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst. Personal account, my opinions only. My substack: https://t.co/1TVi9EvbcX

44 136Followers

3 309Following

173 170Posts total

231.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views5 814this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %13.17%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.45%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 814	2 896	2.01×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.17%	9.51%	1.39×
Engagement rate	0.45%	1.56%	0.29×

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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

21.3K26 Nov

88.8K1 Sep

3.2K

2.7K

5.8K

4.4K

87.3K3 Sep

17.8K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.03%26 Nov

0.50%1 Sep

0.73%

0.91%

0.24%

0.11%

0.44%3 Sep

0.45%

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

What the audience does

Likes80.1%806 in total

Reposts7.7%77 in total

Replies8.0%80 in total

Quotes2.1%21 in total

Bookmarks2.2%22 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

Big stakes now for both parties. Greens have chance to turn the tide on recent decline & show Polanski is a winner. Labour have a chance to show the Burnham bounce is real, consolidate the left in a London heartland seat, & deal a potential knockout blow to Green insu 17.8K views · 48 likes · 18 reposts · 13 replies 03 Sep 2026 BREAKING: Zack Polanski wants to stand as the Holborn & St Pancras MP following Starmer’s decision to stand down. He tells the @NewJournal "I have lived and worked in this community over many years, I know it well and I love it” "It represents so many of the things that 87.3K views · 278 likes · 31 reposts · 56 replies 03 Sep 2026 Deserves the attention - its a good read 4.4K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 You can never tell what will strike a chord. What I'd thought was just a little Bank Holiday piece on overcoming rejection has become my first ever to get >10k views in the first 24 hours. Full post below: ⬇️ https://t.co/dIHeJ8u1vj 5.8K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 Lobby journalist: "Please, please, can we have the Labour leader trigger an early election?" Genie: "As you wish" 2.7K views · 24 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 Yes, although that choice was also not without his petty and spiteful aspects - Heath spent much of this time executing one of the longest sulks in political history, and only seemed to cheer up and perk up whenever his successor Mrs Thatcher was in trouble. 3.2K views · 19 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 Extraordinary to think Edward Heath remained in the Commons for *27 years* after departing as PM, serving as Father of the House for nearly a decade. His farewell speech in May 2001 after more than half a century on the green benches was quite a moment: https://t.co/pYJ0dnrNlp 88.8K views · 419 likes · 22 reposts · 5 replies 01 Sep 2026 Simply go the the Springer site for the book, and enter discount code "BGE25", and you'll get 25% off the definitive guide to last year's general election - with many lessons for the current mess we are in. Here's the website: https://t.co/BnPfPAAqgn 21.3K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 26 Nov 2025