Tom Burgis ✓

@tomburgis · London and roaming · joined 25 Oct 2011

@guardian investigations. Bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland, The Looting Machine. Signal tomburgis.43. Send us info in confidence.

33 412Followers

3 229Following

5 940Posts total

1.7MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views2 366this account1 133median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.08%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.73%this account2.00%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 366	1 133	2.09×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.08%	3.62%	1.96×
Engagement rate	2.73%	2.00%	1.36×

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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

1.2K12 Sep

1M25 Apr

9.8K

44.9K

4.3K

1.5K29 Apr

19.4K15 May

184.7K30 May

1.7K10 Jul

225.5K30 Aug

3.7K

2.4K

2.2K

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.56%12 Sep

0.63%25 Apr

4.81%

1.42%

1.45%

1.97%29 Apr

0.35%15 May

0.72%

1.69%30 May

0.92%10 Jul

0.40%30 Aug

2.77%

2.87%

2.73%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.00%.

What the audience does

Likes55.4%7 831 in total

Reposts31.8%4 497 in total

Replies1.6%223 in total

Quotes1.4%196 in total

Bookmarks9.8%1 384 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

@tomburgis https://t.co/0jm9jhS4hM 2.2K views · 42 likes · 15 reposts · 1 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@tomburgis And-why did #ChristopherHarborne give £1million to @BorisJohnson - after he left Downing St? 2.4K views · 48 likes · 15 reposts · 5 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@tomburgis You only need to see how |Reform councils fawn over JCB pothole machines after a large donation to assume the direction of travel 3.7K views · 91 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Nigel Farage’s “intensely private” billionaire megadonor Christopher Harborne is known as a crypto baron. But he has another empire too. A military one. It extends from Thailand to Washington. What would that mean for a UK under Reform? Here’s the story. https://t.co/pCopjTyGpq 225.5K views · 498 likes · 350 reposts · 32 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Trump’s envoy to Greenland says Americans could start pumping oil in the territory the president wants to claim for the US. A ship with drilling kit is set to sail. My latest investigation into how moneymaking linked to Trump is reshaping the world. https://t.co/t2n7eac30M 1.7K views · 9 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 10 Jul 2026 · Open on X →

A little-known American company is on the brink of $1bn in Balkans energy contracts including building a new gas pipeline. It has no record of such huge infrastructure projects. What it does have is connections to Donald Trump. https://t.co/ZlsoaTKwua 184.7K views · 1.8K likes · 1.2K reposts · 39 replies 30 May 2026 · Open on X →

Hats off to @antoniacundy @miss_marriage @pcaruanagalizia and the @FT for standing up to a legal onslaught on their brilliant investigation into Crispin Odey. (Plus the unsung hero, the unflappable Nigel Hanson) 3K views · 17 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 15 May 2026 · Open on X →

In April, Crispin Odey dropped his £79mn #libel claim against us. This is the inside story of how Odey’s battle to reclaim his reputation backfired. It's about the brave women who spoke out — and the new allegations the two-year legal saga unearthed. https://t.co/13G8n5TyPn 19.4K views · 46 likes · 16 reposts · 3 replies 15 May 2026 · Open on X →

And now a brilliant scoop by my Guardian colleague @Annaisaac reveals that Harborne gave Farage £5m just before he announced he was standing in the 2024 election. https://t.co/QI2FVSez81 1.5K views · 21 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies 29 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

@rowenamason @Direthoughts Another pic of this chap from the same gathering: https://t.co/q57CDH3kWs 4.3K views · 40 likes · 19 reposts · 2 replies 25 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

One Harborne mystery still to be solved is: who is this man, sitting with Harborne, Farage & co at the Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary during the gathering I describe in this piece. @rowenamason @Direthoughts and I have yet to figure it out. DM us if you know. https://t.co/PARqCZ 44.9K views · 417 likes · 198 reposts · 18 replies 25 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

@tomburgis Important work Tom. Some of us have been sounding the alarm about Chris Harborne since at least January 2024: https://t.co/EqwimrMCy0 9.8K views · 355 likes · 114 reposts · 2 replies 25 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne https://t.co/CLCwSuTdRH 1M views · 3.9K likes · 2.3K reposts · 87 replies 25 Apr 2026 · Open on X →

@tomburgis @mrjamesob When Netflix picks this up, can you insist it is serialised rather than a 1 hr 30-minute job with gaps everywhere? 1.2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 12 Sep 2024 · Open on X →

@tomburgis #KLEPTOPIA https://t.co/LpeNMiAMqn 1.8K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 12 Sep 2024 · Open on X →

***NEW INVESTIGATION*** How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad - and won. I’ve been working on this story for 15 years. It goes from South Africa to Moscow via the London Stock Exchange. Now new documents illuminate a case that has rewritten UK law and is set to end with a 192.3K views · 539 likes · 274 reposts · 31 replies 12 Sep 2024 · Open on X →