Michael DiMercurio ✓
@MikeyDiMercurio · Undisclosed Location, USA · joined 05 Feb 2014
Bestselling author, submariner, engineer, Naval Academy and MIT alumnus. Author of LION OF THE SEVEN SEAS, VOYAGE OF THE DEVILFISH and other submarine fiction.
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Totally not my fault! https://t.co/eOp4QCqMr9
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@MikeyDiMercurio Although, there's still the "Watch Officer's Guide," which we all get. The thing from that which has stuck with me the most is, "The oncoming watch officer should not change the set of the sails during the first fifteen minutes of the watch."
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@MikeyDiMercurio "Old dead White guys have nothing to teach me, hurr durr!" - This is a really inaccurate, shortsighted, and foolish take on the history of warfare in general.
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@MikeyDiMercurio I'm gonna need smaller words Mikey
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One thing I learned in a weekend at West Point was that woops were studying battle tactics from thousands of years of history, where we midshipman knew that even 1905 was too ancient to bring much elucidation to the art of naval battles.
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THE THING WE STILL CAN’T TEACH
I'll bite on this one. Napoleon remains the ghost in professional military education. Why? Let me take a stab at it...
Jomini watched him and tried to turn the phenomenon into rules. Anyone in the U.S. Army has seen this before. If you do
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Writing the autobiography - deep thoughts regarding
For many years I resisted the call of family, friends, exes, even enemies to write my autobiography.
You might be wondering why.
Well, I'll tell you why.
Consider this life happening in 3 acts.
In Act I, I'm a blithering
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Dateline 1978 COLD WAR
Second class year at Annapolis.
This is where we are in the autobiography. https://t.co/v8ALuk7plu
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@MikeyDiMercurio You know, I’ve read MdiM’s other X-posts recounting his experiences, but this far more ‘fleshed-out’ work is something very different. The other posts made you think, “This guy is tough/cool/clever, etc”. This autobiographical version makes you think, “This guy
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@MikeyDiMercurio Mikey, I commend you for delivering such a comprehensive and meticulously accurate depiction of the submariner’s perspective. I have reached the midpoint of the novel and continue to find every page thoroughly engaging. To maintain momentum during my travels an
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@MikeyDiMercurio Hello again my part-time X friends. Just touching base with you again to wish you well & hope all doing OK?
I link to report from 14 yr old child Noah Donohoe's inquest in Belfast. Fight for truth&justice for Noah goes on.
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@MikeyDiMercurio Michael Pacino series has a perm spot on my bookshelf! Read it yrs ago & it blew my mind. Your tactical realism & tension hugely inspired my mil sci-fi writing. Congrats on the Author's Ed! ⚓📚
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Voyage of the Devilfish: The Titanium Coffin, Author's Edition (The Michael Pacino Series Book 1)
by Michael DiMercurio
Originally published as "Voyage of the Devilfish," and first conceived as "The Titanium Coffin," this expanded and revised Author’s Edition reflects Michael
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Against accounts of the same size
9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views932this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %8.43%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %4.17%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 932 | 924 | 1.01× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 8.43% | 3.62% | 2.33× |
| Engagement rate | 4.17% | 1.52% | 2.74× |
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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.
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2834 May
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Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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0.41%12 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes70.8%1 535 in total
Reposts9.6%208 in total
Replies9.2%200 in total
Bookmarks10.4%225 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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