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Jonathan Amos

@JCDAmos · Cambridge, UK · joined 13 Jan 2010

Journalist. Former BBC Science Correspondent. Way too interested in icebergs for my own good.

51 199Followers
1 648Following
17 159Posts total
204KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views790this account3 383median for 10K–100K
Reach, %1.54%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.76%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post7903 3830.23×
Reach (views ÷ followers)1.54%10.96%0.14×
Engagement rate0.76%1.40%0.54×

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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

37.5K9 Nov
96412 Apr
56310 Jun
79018 Jun
164.1K4 Aug

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.06%9 Nov
1.04%12 Apr
1.07%10 Jun
0.76%18 Jun
0.06%4 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes67.4%390 in total
Reposts14.7%85 in total
Replies7.1%41 in total
Quotes1.9%11 in total
Bookmarks9.0%52 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

The UK's Earth Observation sector lost on the order of £150–300m during 2021–2025 as a result of the Brexit withdrawal from Copernicus. Loss of contract eligibility, industrial capability, influence, and market position. Can we claw our way back? Read the value for money report: 164.1K views · 81 likes · 18 reposts · 3 replies 04 Aug 2026 UK taxpayers spent £400m to rescue OneWeb from bankruptcy and yet today France is the country that extracts the defence and industrial value from this asset. A tale as old as time. https://t.co/qO6Io3bWiQ via @ESpaceflight 790 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 18 Jun 2026 Truly profound insights into the way Planet Earth is working are just over the horizon. "Planetary Intelligence" is coming. https://t.co/oyEePbp1jW Thank you @Will4Planet. We just need to make the right choices. Can we be trusted? 563 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 10 Jun 2026 I'm reasonably convinced now that Iceberg A23a has completely collapsed. The USNIC is no longer tracking a berg of that name. But A23k (also not listed) does lumber on, albeit in a disheveled state. This view is from Thursday (9 April) NOAA-21 VIIRS. https://t.co/iQsoEmolTh https 964 views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 12 Apr 2026 My last story as a staffer for the BBC. A puzzle that surrounds the end-of-life manoeuvres of the oldest UK satellite still up there - #Skynet1A. Who moved it, when and why? https://t.co/iMhOBBJr4N https://t.co/wGjjKwVSr8 37.5K views · 294 likes · 62 reposts · 36 replies 09 Nov 2024

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