William Gibson ✓

@GreatDismal · Vancouver · joined 01 Apr 2009

Author of Neuromancer, The Peripheral, Agency… I’m also @greatdismal.bsky.social

254 767Followers

297Following

201 684Posts total

96.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

William Gibson ✓@GreatDismal23 Aug

Listening to the thunder now: 12.5K views · 61 likes · 6 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

William Gibson ✓@GreatDismal15 Aug

I’ve long fancied that John M. Johnson, the local black historian who knew the names of participants in Byrd’s lynching, contrived to somehow, somewhere, leave a small centennial surprise, one that might well take a while to surface. 24.1K views · 156 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

William Gibson ✓@GreatDismal15 Aug

Today is the 100th anniversary of the 1926 lynching of Raymond Byrd in Wytheville VA. A flower-laying ceremony is scheduled for 4 p.m. at LOVE Park. Wish I could be there! 11.3K views · 132 likes · 15 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

William Gibson ✓@GreatDismal30 Jul

The Peri’s bubbin’, good deal! https://t.co/am00jKI0yU 10.7K views · 117 likes · 8 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

William Gibson ✓@GreatDismal22 Apr

@GreatDismal Too late; the completed book is coming out Nov 8 through Random House, complete with your suggestion that a "cute talking animal" or "friendly robot" be incorporated. 416 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

William Gibson ✓@GreatDismal22 Apr

@GreatDismal Dang I thought you really wanted to read my cyberpunk series! 422 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

William Gibson ✓@GreatDismal22 Apr

@GreatDismal I've had one of these - in my DMs - from ... Cavafy (1863-1933) 1.3K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

William Gibson ✓@GreatDismal22 Apr

1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address: williamgibsonauthor@gmail.com. 35.6K views · 166 likes · 63 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views11 875this account4 736median for 100K–1M

Reach, %4.66%this account1.78%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.96%this account1.34%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	11 875	4 736	2.51×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.66%	1.78%	2.62×
Engagement rate	0.96%	1.34%	0.72×

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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

35.6K22 Apr

1.3K

422

416

10.7K30 Jul

11.3K15 Aug

24.1K

12.5K23 Aug

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.70%22 Apr

0.56%

0.95%

1.68%

1.26%30 Jul

1.30%15 Aug

0.66%

0.57%23 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.34%.

What the audience does

Likes79.1%649 in total

Reposts11.6%95 in total

Replies3.7%30 in total

Quotes1.0%8 in total

Bookmarks4.6%38 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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