Hot Pepper ✓

@Hot_Pepper76 · · joined 08 Nov 2024

Sharing nostalgia and stories from classic music, television, film and the stars we remember. Horse lover. Aviation enthusiast. Keeping my corner of X positive.

49 675Followers

16 632Following

143 281Posts total

1.4MViews on collected posts

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Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper769 Sep

Ed Sullivan did not want Elvis on his show. Period. Not for $5,000. Not on Sunday. Not if the boy stood still like a coat rack. He said, "Not my cup of tea." Steve Allen booked him. Different network. Same hour. Direct competition. Then they did the dumbest brilliant thing in

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Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper769 Sep

@Hot_Pepper76 @fredforthemets Sly himself was an unknown and even though he wrote the movie, the studio wanted established actors to play the role of Rocky like Redford or Burt Reynolds. Luckily Sly kept the role and he and Weathers were the perfect adversaries in that initial fi 284 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper769 Sep

Never underestimate what a little encouragement can do. A warm smile or hopeful word can lighten a burden we may know nothing about. Today, may we reflect God’s joy and leave someone feeling stronger. "Light in a messenger’s eyes brings joy to the heart, and good news gives 860 views · 87 likes · 3 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper769 Sep

@Hot_Pepper76 Hey forget about it. It is amazing Sly had no actual acting ability and he became a mega household name. Sly was raw unique and said few words. He was like a musician who knows when to play. Sly actually played himself and wrote Rocky himself. Never judge a book by 332 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper769 Sep

@Hot_Pepper76 Weathers was essential in those films. Pure credibility from him. It was easy to believe that he was a boxer. 229 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper769 Sep

Carl Weathers insulted Sylvester Stallone during his audition for Rocky. There was nobody available to read with him, so Weathers was paired with the film’s writer. He did not know the writer was also playing Rocky Balboa. The scene ended. Weathers did not think it had gone htt

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Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper768 Sep

Brian Wilson grew up in a house filled with fear, yet created some of the most joyful, sun-drenched music in history. His father, Murry, was controlling, cruel, and abusive toward Brian and his brothers. The damage did not stay in childhood. It followed them into adulthood, into

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Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper7622 Jan

@Hot_Pepper76 The perfect song for a tribute to the greatest decade in anyone's lifetime, the 1980's.... https://t.co/VPC7HHqsgT

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Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper7621 Jan

@Hot_Pepper76 Boy meets Girl. It’s on my playlist. 52.8K views · 77 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper7621 Jan

@Hot_Pepper76 Boy meets Girl. 58.3K views · 199 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Hot Pepper ✓@Hot_Pepper7621 Jan

This duo wrote this for Whitney Houston after "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody." Belinda Carlisle recorded it but passed, so they released it themselves. It became a hit in '88. Do you remember it or who sang it? https://t.co/fPtcB8uPXn

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views860this account956median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.73%this account3.36%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.04%this account1.90%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	860	956	0.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.73%	3.36%	0.52×
Engagement rate	3.04%	1.90%	1.60×

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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

1.3M21 Jan

58.3K

52.8K

6.1K22 Jan

4.3K8 Sep

24K9 Sep

229

332

860

284

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

0.48%21 Jan

0.36%

0.16%

1.73%22 Jan

5.28%8 Sep

3.04%9 Sep

1.75%

1.51%

12.33%

2.11%

6.30%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.90%.

What the audience does

Likes70.9%6 730 in total

Reposts3.4%325 in total

Replies5.0%477 in total

Quotes0.7%71 in total

Bookmarks19.9%1 888 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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