Sandipan Deb ✓

@sandipanthedeb

Writer, editor, columnist. Former editor, Financial Express, Open, Swarajya, Outlook Money; managing editor, Outlook.

8 209Followers

702Following

3 032Posts total

53.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 077this account10 403median for under 10K

Reach, %13.12%this account593.02%median for under 10K

Engagement, %2.64%this account0.95%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 077	10 403	0.10×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.12%	5.9× audience	0.02×
Engagement rate	2.64%	0.95%	2.78×

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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

51.2K3 Sep

401

1.8K

273

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

1.53%3 Sep

3.74%

0.80%

4.03%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 0.95%.

What the audience does

Likes62.3%579 in total

Reposts17.9%166 in total

Replies6.2%58 in total

Quotes2.5%23 in total

Bookmarks11.1%103 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

@sandipanthedeb @bhatnaturally You are not the only one - please include me as a member of your club 😀 273 views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @sandipanthedeb Absolutely! Calcutta on the right side of the Howrah bridge, ie, the non-Howrah side, is simply pure joy 1.8K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @sandipanthedeb Couldn't agree more. Bengalis, especially the Bangals love to wallow in the squalor and display of poverty, as if it's some badge of honour. Ghotis still had some class & self respect, Bangals just don't. Communism & Bangals killed Kolkata. Take it from a 401 views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I get irritated whenever I hear proud Kolkatans referring to their city as the "City of Joy", after the title of Dominique Lapierre's book. This happens all the time. I doubt whether Lapierre was referring to Kolkata when he named his book. The name is a straight translation of 51.2K views · 543 likes · 163 reposts · 57 replies 03 Sep 2026