The Medieval Scholar ✓

@MedievalScholar · Join over 12,000 readers 👉 · joined 10 May 2023

Telling stories of Medieval Europe. One thread at a time. Member of the Royal Historical Society. © Represented by @NorthbankTalent

120 670Followers

410Following

10 348Posts total

6.7MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views52 517this account12 273median for 100K–1M

Reach, %43.52%this account3.89%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.69%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	52 517	12 273	4.28×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	43.52%	3.89%	11.2×
Engagement rate	0.69%	1.25%	0.55×

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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

16.3K3 Aug

6.4M1 Sep

52.5K

5.9K2 Sep

71.8K

172.3K

6.2K

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

0.45%3 Aug

0.04%1 Sep

2.97%

0.69%2 Sep

0.16%

1.42%

7.43%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes69.7%5 544 in total

Reposts3.7%295 in total

Replies8.7%689 in total

Quotes5.8%465 in total

Bookmarks12.1%961 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

Second half of the 15th century equipment by Graham Turner https://t.co/wCrLMxfu0h 6.2K views · 437 likes · 27 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 A YouTuber by the name of Dequitem has an excellent video called “Brigands” where he showcases a non choreographed fight between a heavily armored knight and bandits with little armor The knight isn’t unstoppable, you can hurt him, but he has a huge advantage even outnumbered h 172.3K views · 2.3K likes · 126 reposts · 27 replies 02 Sep 2026 @MedievalScholar A trained knight in full armor was a serious threat and no peasant would dare attack one head on https://t.co/VPFMYrKd4B 71.8K views · 110 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 “I LIKE SOME OF THE PLOUGHMANS FARMING BUT WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT SWORD FIGHTING?” https://t.co/WoF8k3nDBj 5.9K views · 38 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 In reality the knight / professional soldier would have little trouble cutting down a peasant in rags wielding a sickle LET ALONE THREE https://t.co/Hb3bqI2faM 52.5K views · 1.5K likes · 50 reposts · 45 replies 01 Sep 2026 In a land of kings, a rebel rises. https://t.co/gfbUsEy56e 6.4M views · 1.1K likes · 77 reposts · 613 replies 01 Sep 2026 Brand new, paid subscriber exclusive article is live! Read about the brutal, unforgiving battle of Nancy in 1477 and the fall of centuries of ambition in one snowy January. https://t.co/fbKYsk2wfA 16.3K views · 61 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies 03 Aug 2026