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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.
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Boston Selectmen wish to inform the public that 33 people in the city have smallpox, though most appear to be recovering. https://t.co/yuu41PHYPA
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A wolf bites and kills seven-year-old Joseph Charpillon in Vescles, France. https://t.co/NPE7FpnrOO
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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
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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
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@250YearsAgoLive It will also be known as a "buck" sir. Why? "Nobody knows".
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@250YearsAgoLive As long as they don't institute a Federal Reserve bank to control the currency...
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@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.”
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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
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@250YearsAgoLive lol imma galuppi on dat baldass
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@250YearsAgoLive Hence his Comic Opera "Mismanagement at the Ospedale"
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Composer Baldassare Galuppi is dismissed from his post at the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice due to budget cuts. https://t.co/613OzgzmKe
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Fort Constitution is renamed Fort Lee, for General Charles Lee of the Continental Army. https://t.co/U3gYy5GqO6
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Jefferson began writing the document two weeks ago:
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@250YearsAgoLive George Washington mentions Jesus Christ 🇺🇸 https://t.co/TkdGjJETGD
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Thomas Jefferson submits the final draft of his Declaration of Independence to Continental Congress. https://t.co/Z8xWYwU94x
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Thomas Jefferson rents an upstairs apartment at 700 Market Street, Philadelphia, so that he can write a “Declaration of Independence.” https://t.co/WMXuA9UD9Y
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Against accounts of the same size
13 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views19 166this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %5.24%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %2.14%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 19 166 | 5 983 | 3.20× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 5.24% | 1.49% | 3.51× |
| Engagement rate | 2.14% | 0.93% | 2.31× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
395.9K28 Jun
27.9K1 Sep
34.7K2 Sep
77
57
37K
1.1K
45
876
808
19.5K3 Sep
19.2K
26.9K4 Sep
19.3K
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
1.13%28 Jun
2.14%1 Sep
0.35%2 Sep
1.30%
0.00%
5.64%
3.58%
0.00%
3.31%
2.97%
1.42%3 Sep
3.17%
2.32%4 Sep
1.62%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes79.9%42 733 in total
Reposts11.5%6 135 in total
Replies0.7%389 in total
Quotes0.8%407 in total
Bookmarks7.1%3 821 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.
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