Tom Whyman

@HealthUntoDeath · Gateshead, Northumbria · joined 05 Dec 2010

Philosopher. Hate AI, love my wife and kids, simple as. Email: tomwhyman@googlemail.com

12 893Followers

913Following

29 879Posts total

535.8KViews on collected posts

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Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath17 Sep

ME: OK do you have your school uniform on? 7 y/o: [walking downstairs in boxers and a home jumper, completely glazed look on his eyes] And then did you know what Lenin did? He went to FINLAND STATION. And the crowds went wild. 2.3K views · 21 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath17 Sep

Just realised I have a book out today! https://t.co/mD6qRl5HVv 778 views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath16 Sep

This angry chimpanzee with a gun that some wealthy Americans own and want to house here can bring enormous benefits to Britain. But as the rickety wooden cage we've chosen to house it in becomes increasingly fragile, we need to be clear-eyed about the risks. 848 views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath16 Sep

If I was an enormously famous musician who could draw sell-out crowds wherever he played I would simply do whatever the venues I was playing at told me to. 938 views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath15 Sep

AI can bring enormous benefits to Britain. But as it becomes more powerful, we need to be clear-eyed about the risks. We will follow the evidence and do what is needed to keep people safe. That is the test I will apply. https://t.co/Y0uknGw3Xo 12.6K views · 97 likes · 15 reposts · 33 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath2 Jun 2025

I'll do it if any publishers are reading this 10.9K views · 108 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath2 Jun 2025

@HealthUntoDeath This would be a good book. It intersects with the other trend, where some politicians have become content creators, but the content is aimed at an international/US audience. 10.3K views · 291 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath2 Jun 2025

The British public sphere is some hard-right college students in Ohio 13.4K views · 659 likes · 17 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath2 Jun 2025

Someone has to write the book on how British politics is now almost entirely shaped by things Americans are saying online 483.9K views · 16.1K likes · 1.5K reposts · 113 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath26 Aug 2022

On Simpsons as language and ritual. Also the time Chris Bryant thought Tom Usher was threatening to have him beaten to death with hammers because he'd failed to understand a Sideshow Bob meme 0 views · 355 likes · 33 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath26 Aug 2022

‘The Simpsons is not just a TV show. The Simpsons is a language.’ @HealthUntoDeath’s essay, out today https://t.co/3mSVUGuKsE 0 views · 173 likes · 29 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

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5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views938this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.28%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.19%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	938	924	1.02×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.28%	3.62%	2.01×
Engagement rate	1.19%	1.52%	0.78×

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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

483.9K2 Jun

13.4K

10.3K

10.9K

12.6K15 Sep

93816 Sep

848

77817 Sep

2.3K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.67%2 Jun

5.07%

2.91%

1.00%

1.19%15 Sep

1.28%16 Sep

1.18%

1.41%17 Sep

1.06%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes88.1%17 319 in total

Reposts7.7%1 517 in total

Replies0.8%152 in total

Quotes0.4%69 in total

Bookmarks3.1%610 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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