Swapan Dasgupta ✓
@swapan55 · Kolkata, India · joined 22 Feb 2009
Finance Minister, W Bengal. MLA from Rashbehari. Ideologically conservative & nationalist. Padma Bhushan. Former MP (RS). Member BJP National Executive.
1 125 603Followers
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11 092Posts total
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Media activism makes for excitement in the watering holes of Press Clubs. It is unlikely that frenzy will lead to the fall of a settled government. Last night’s contrived anticipation was proof of that.
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Happy birthday to a leader who made us what we are: the proud citizen of a proud country. May you lead us to greater heights.
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On the occasion of Arun Jaitley’s 7th death anniversary, many of his friends and admirers gathered in Delhi to pay floral tributes and exchange anecdotes. https://t.co/QKS9D85fKI
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@swapan55 in summary this is BJP’s original face and you are the musk https://t.co/g4vOR9pSYH
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@swapan55 @sanjeevsanyal Swapan is right and on the mark. Jadavpur University has been going downhill since the days of the CPM and has declined rapidly with the advent of Mamata Banerjee. She used the bad elements to promote her brand of violent and vicious politics. Recall how
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@swapan55 your bjp/avbp goons did the ransacking. your police allowed it. nobody has been arrested, take responsibility
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My observations on the agitation in and around Jadavpur University. https://t.co/6ZTj94ygZ2
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Was delighted to connect once again with Malabika Bhattacharya. She presented me a copy of the history of Vande Mataram by her late husband Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (Bappa). He was one of the finest historians of our day. https://t.co/2uPJzCCU8y
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@swapan55 @opinion_tt Are you even real? First you call Gen Z, cockroaches and then call forgiving kids a political masterclass after beating them brutally and then terrorizing them to say sorry?
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@swapan55 @opinion_tt “bacchanalia of the permanently aggrieved”
So aptly put, Dr. Dasgupta.
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@swapan55 @opinion_tt The problem is people don't read more than the headlines and get rest of their news and form their opinions based on 2 min clips on YouTube or Facebook peddled by anti-India hustlers.
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Some people appear to have drawn their own expedient conclusions on my article in yesterday’s @opinion_tt . The important thing to note is that it has been written by a BJP loyalist who just wants to correct the impression that the organisation is impervious to criticism. Read ht
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Met the President Maharaj of the Ramakrishna Mission at the organisation’s wonderful Institute of Culture in Golpark. It is located in Rashbehari constituency that I am honoured to represent. The Institute has a centre for the study of Indology that is of special interest to me.
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Against accounts of the same size
12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views12 034this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %1.07%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %2.70%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 12 034 | 14 648 | 0.82× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.07% | 0.74% | 1.44× |
| Engagement rate | 2.70% | 0.70% | 3.87× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
17.2K8 Jul
39.9K7 Aug
250
382
387
26.9K16 Aug
42K21 Aug
494
994
179
23.1K24 Aug
25.5K17 Sep
45.1K24 Sep
Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
6.14%8 Jul
1.80%7 Aug
2.40%
1.31%
2.84%
3.74%16 Aug
2.60%21 Aug
2.43%
1.21%
6.70%
2.80%24 Aug
10.24%17 Sep
3.37%24 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes82.1%7 324 in total
Reposts11.5%1 029 in total
Replies3.3%297 in total
Quotes0.7%59 in total
Bookmarks2.3%209 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
23 Sep
Daily snapshots since 23 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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