Marc Bennetts

@marcbennetts1 · joined 08 Sep 2013

The Times foreign correspondent. Author of The Descent: Witnessing Russia's Spiral Into Madness Under Putin (March 2026, Bloomsbury).

11 293Followers

5 538Following

13 567Posts total

122.2KViews on collected posts

Ultimi post

Marc Bennetts@marcbennetts121 Sep

By the way, Russian propaganda never stops banging on about Anglo Saxons (allegedly Moscow's biggest foes). 838 views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Marc Bennetts@marcbennetts121 Sep

Other opposition figures, including Yulia Navalnaya, urged Russians to vote for any other party but Putin's. But the only parties allowed on the ballot all supported the war. In the end, the tactic appears to have achieved nothing but boost turnout. 2.9K views · 7 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Marc Bennetts@marcbennetts120 Sep

Some of the Russian opposition, not all, urged people to protest today's fake elections by...turning up at polling stations at noon ("Midday Against Putin"). But if you don't know, it just looks like long queues to vote in fake elections. State TV will be happy. 79.9K views · 179 likes · 18 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Marc Bennetts@marcbennetts117 Sep

My interview with Mendel. I actually think she is more likely to be taking her cues from Maga than directly from Moscow. This line says it all for me. “We always blame only Putin. We never see the log in our own eyes.” https://t.co/BZh9zZpPnV 5.6K views · 70 likes · 13 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Marc Bennetts@marcbennetts126 Mar

Out today. My memoir of 25 years in Russia, from Yeltsin to Putin, and my later reporting on the Kremlin's sick and evil war in Ukraine. https://t.co/5vzDZWaWRZ

33K views · 222 likes · 56 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

4 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.

Visualizzazioni mediane4 234questo account924mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %37.49%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %0.55%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	4 234	924	4.58×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	37.49%	3.62%	10.4×
Tasso di interazione	0.55%	1.52%	0.36×

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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

33K26 Mar

5.6K17 Sep

79.9K20 Sep

2.9K21 Sep

838

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.91%26 Mar

1.66%17 Sep

0.27%20 Sep

0.38%21 Sep

0.72%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes67.1%483 in total

Reposts12.6%91 in total

Replies5.1%37 in total

Quotes1.7%12 in total

Bookmarks13.5%97 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.