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@250YearsAgoLive · 1776 · joined 18 Dec 2024

Live-posting as a reporter embedded in history. Curated by @MannyMarotta. Companion to @25YearsAgoLive, @50YearsAgoLive, and @100YearsAgoLive. DM for business.

366 067Followers

203Following

1 529Posts total

137.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 088this account6 178median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.30%this account2.63%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %2.14%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	1 088	6 178	0.18×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.30%	2.63%	0.11×
Engagement rate	2.14%	1.40%	1.53×

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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

27.9K1 Sep

34.7K2 Sep

36.1K

1.1K

876

808

18.3K3 Sep

17.3K

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

2.14%1 Sep

0.35%2 Sep

1.30%

0.00%

5.70%

3.58%

0.00%

3.31%

2.97%

1.45%3 Sep

3.25%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes89.0%3 430 in total

Reposts5.6%214 in total

Replies0.9%35 in total

Quotes0.5%18 in total

Bookmarks4.0%155 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

Given that Halifax has become a hub of Tories and Loyalists, all persons arriving in Boston from Halifax are henceforth required to give their names and addresses and disclose the contents of their letters. Non-compliance will be interpreted as treason against the United States 17.3K views · 509 likes · 44 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton writes in a letter: “The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it.” https://t.c 18.3K views · 243 likes · 21 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @250YearsAgoLive It will also be known as a "buck" sir. Why? "Nobody knows". 808 views · 22 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 @250YearsAgoLive As long as they don't institute a Federal Reserve bank to control the currency... 876 views · 28 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 @250YearsAgoLive Now he’s decomposing 45 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @250YearsAgoLive I confess I did not expect the “dollar” to become quite so famous. In 1776, we were rather more concerned with creating a nation than creating a currency. Yet both required deciding what, precisely, we meant by a “dollar.” 1.1K views · 37 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 A committee led by Thomas Jefferson recommends to the Continental Congress that the U.S. create a basic unit of currency called the "dollar." The “dollar” derives its name from a Spanish and Austrian coin originally called the “thaler.” https://t.co/iXwHUSpkxp 36.1K views · 1.9K likes · 129 reposts · 15 replies 02 Sep 2026 @250YearsAgoLive lol imma galuppi on dat baldass 57 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @250YearsAgoLive Hence his Comic Opera "Mismanagement at the Ospedale" 77 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Composer Baldassare Galuppi is dismissed from his post at the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice due to budget cuts. https://t.co/613OzgzmKe 34.7K views · 117 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies 02 Sep 2026 Fort Constitution is renamed Fort Lee, for General Charles Lee of the Continental Army. https://t.co/U3gYy5GqO6 27.9K views · 570 likes · 18 reposts · 7 replies 01 Sep 2026