Tom McIlroy

@TomMcIlroy · Parliament House, Canberra · joined 20 Jun 2009

Guardian Australia’s political editor and author

16 853Followers

1 843Following

78 042Posts total

22.2KViews on collected posts

Últimas publicaciones

Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy23 Nov 2025

@TomMcIlroy @FinancialReview Hey Tom, did you take dirty money from Israel or are you just an evil and dishonest yellow journalist? 3 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy27 Feb 2025

Blue Poles: how Australia came to own the Jackson Pollock masterpiece ⁦@FinancialReview⁩ https://t.co/tS5BVckm9y 2.4K views · 25 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy27 Feb 2025

Great chatting to David Marr about Blue Poles https://t.co/JcLm6So28r 772 views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy22 Feb 2025

‘A shattering experience’: Blue Poles is still the painting that shocked Australia by ⁦@jclindell⁩ https://t.co/7sYhJbcKxz 893 views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy17 Feb 2025

@TomMcIlroy This sounds great, Tom! 117 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy17 Feb 2025

Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting That Changed a Nation Out February 26 https://t.co/RbrWnNsKHP https://t.co/6RLkszjGCk

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9.3K views · 23 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy16 Sep 2023

Indigenous children in emotional pitch for Voice https://t.co/7gTrNbaumd 2.4K views · 18 likes · 2 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Tom McIlroy@TomMcIlroy26 May 2023

It's a decade later and I still can't get that fucking U2 album off my phone 6.4K views · 62 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

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

6.4K26 May

2.4K16 Sep

9.3K17 Feb

117

89322 Feb

77227 Feb

2.4K

323 Nov

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

1.08%26 May

1.06%16 Sep

0.33%17 Feb

1.71%

1.34%22 Feb

1.42%27 Feb

1.48%

33.33%23 Nov

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes76.5%150 in total

Reposts9.7%19 in total

Replies7.7%15 in total

Quotes1.0%2 in total

Bookmarks5.1%10 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

15 Sep

Daily snapshots since 15 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.