Yanis Varoufakis ✓

@yanisvaroufakis · Athens, Greece · joined 20 Mar 2010

Economics professor, quietly writing obscure economic texts for years, until thrust onto the public scene by Europe's inane handling of an inevitable crisis

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Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis13 h

Στο τελευταίο επεισόδιο των «The Econoclasts», με τον Βόλφγκανγκ αποκαλύπτουμε την υποκρισία των μεγιστάνων της ΑΙ που δήθεν ζητούν τον «περιορισμό» τους, ενώ στην πραγματικότητα κινδυνολογούν πως τα εργαλεία τους θα σκοτώσουν την Ανθρωπότητα μόνο και μόνο για να αυξήσουν την 16.4K views · 35 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis13 h

In this AI focussed episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang and I expose the hypocrisy of AI techlords calling for their own 'containment', when in reality they use apocalyptic warnings as marketing devices and as ploys by which to get governments to release them from every 21.5K views · 141 likes · 43 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis20 h

EEA-membership is not associated EU membership. It is membership of the Single Market - which Canada will NEVER join (as it would condemn Canada to accepting rules, standards and regulations over which it would not be consulted - and for which it would have to pay billions to the 31.5K views · 415 likes · 74 reposts · 31 replies Open on X →

Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis20 h

@yanisvaroufakis You claim to be an economics professor but haven't heard of Greenland? How about Iceland and Norway's membership of the EEA? https://t.co/s8LWg870WJ

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Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis16 Sep

Sure. But membership is a different kettle of fish! 33K views · 39 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis16 Sep

@yanisvaroufakis association agreements have existed since the 1960s 37K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis15 Sep

"They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's." 149.3K views · 2.5K likes · 766 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →

Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis14 Sep

What comes after capitalim? Wolfgang Munchau and I (yes, The Econoclasts!) will continue our mission to dismantle economic orthodoxy – but this time, we are tackling the ultimate false assumption: the permanence of capitalism. Holed up in the UnHerd Club, in this live https:/

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Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis14 Sep

On BBC World Service, the NEWSDAY program, this morning, challenging the techlords' BS that they want us to... restrain them. https://t.co/YOZQD2u9NZ 33.1K views · 68 likes · 14 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis12 Sep

«Οι εργαζόμενοι στις εταιρείες ΑΙ λένε στις κυβερνήσεις: “Είναι πολύ πιθανό να εξοντώσουμε κάθε άνθρωπο στη Γη· σας παρακαλούμε, σταματήστε μας”. Οι κυβερνήσεις απαντούν: “Ποια φορολογική ελάφρυνση θα θέλατε; Να σας χτίσουμε άλλο ένα data centre;» Ίσως κάποια στιγμή οι 35.8K views · 161 likes · 47 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Yanis Varoufakis ✓@yanisvaroufakis15 Oct 2025

RAISE YOUR SOUL! My new book telling the story of the last 100 years through the voices of 5 remarkable women. Unlike anything I have written before, it focuses on 5 women who taught me how to resist fascism, authoritarianism, chauvinism &... hopelessness https://t.co/4dqwb75fNI 415.5K views · 1.6K likes · 669 reposts · 144 replies Open on X →

Face aux comptes de taille comparable

10 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 1M–10M abonnés. diffusé largement, mais peu de ces spectateurs réagissent.

Vues médianes33 062ce compte17 281médiane pour 1M–10M

Portée, %2.79%ce compte0.83%médiane pour 1M–10M

Engagement, %0.45%ce compte0.81%médiane pour 1M–10M

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 1M–10M	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	33 062	17 281	1.91×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	2.79%	0.83%	3.37×
Taux d'engagement	0.45%	0.81%	0.56×

Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →

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

415.5K15 Oct

35.8K12 Sep

33.1K14 Sep

24.2K

149.3K15 Sep

37K16 Sep

33K

35.2K

31.5K

21.5K

16.4K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.58%15 Oct

0.62%12 Sep

0.26%14 Sep

1.09%

2.23%15 Sep

0.02%16 Sep

0.14%

0.02%

1.67%

0.89%

0.28%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.81%.

What the audience does

Likes61.4%5 130 in total

Reposts20.1%1 682 in total

Replies3.0%252 in total

Quotes0.7%55 in total

Bookmarks14.8%1 236 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

16 Sep

Daily snapshots since 16 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.