Aaron Astor ✓

@AstorAaron · Gettysburg, PA · joined 16 Jun 2009

Historian of the 19th Century U.S. and Professor at Gettysburg College. Author of Rebels on the Border and Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau

25 206Followers

2 789Following

209 010Posts total

39.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views1 668this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.62%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.25%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 668	2 751	0.61×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.62%	9.00%	0.74×
Engagement rate	1.25%	1.65%	0.76×

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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

21.9K31 Aug

10.7K2 Sep

2.5K

1.7K3 Sep

803

805

747

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.83%31 Aug

1.50%2 Sep

0.93%

1.62%3 Sep

1.25%

0.37%

2.14%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes75.8%335 in total

Reposts9.5%42 in total

Replies7.9%35 in total

Quotes2.5%11 in total

Bookmarks4.3%19 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

NY Fire Department’s Fire Zouaves - 73rd NY Infantry monument. https://t.co/SWJyh1KJ0R 747 views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Agreed. "GasBuddyGuy" @GasBuddyGuy is so much more than just a guide to finding the nearest cheap gas station! 805 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 We need more Regis DeTrobriand re-enactors. Full name: Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand. He was a brave Franco-American general who had the misfortune of guarding the Wheatfield for Dan Sickles. https://t.co/X1OnBuI7wC 803 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Fun fact: Since 2012, the University of Massachusetts football team has a record of 26 wins and 134 losses. By contrast, Ohio State University's record over that same period is 165 wins and 26 losses. 1.7K views · 24 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 if GasBuddyGuy was ever staidly rebranded to, like, DeHaan Energy Analytics, i feel like he'd get way more of the recognition he deserves.... he's often forecasting and calling these trends weeks or even months in advance of his posting the graphic of a given predicted outcome: 2.5K views · 21 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Small liberal arts colleges are better positioned for teaching in the world of AI/LLMs than larger universities because of regular interactive, in-person discussions and time for student oral presentations. (In-class writing activities (in blue books) are less awkward too.) 10.7K views · 128 likes · 19 reposts · 10 replies 02 Sep 2026 An MIT report found that frontier LLMs are able to "credibly complete" most undergraduate assignments. I'm seeing this as well, and I'm having to redesign most of my assignments as a result. The uncomfortable truth is that it may not be sufficient to "retrofit" many courses 21.9K views · 135 likes · 22 reposts · 19 replies 31 Aug 2026