Ned Donovan ✓

@Ned_Donovan · Charleston, SC · joined 05 Jul 2012

Ex-journalist, now a policeman. Still writing. All views very much my own.

21 979Followers

1 033Following

287Posts total

647.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan3 Sep

@Ned_Donovan Not only did they have a ton of money, but there was also almost no regulation. People could just do things and get away with them. Also labour was dirt cheap. You could just use orphans and the like and it was fine, who cares if a few kids die in the mine, there's 1.6K views · 31 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan3 Sep

@Ned_Donovan Victorian Britain's culture of "we had an idea and toyed around with it because we can" was largely enabled by wealthy elites willing to fund insane ideas. Modern elites are so greedy and tasteless that they aren't willing to spend a dime on anything cool. 3.6K views · 320 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan3 Sep

@Ned_Donovan https://t.co/FIGkDkZF12 Imagining this nowadays: “have you got planning permission for this?” 2.7K views · 30 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan3 Sep

I thought it might be helpful to explain, as a working cop, why this piece of legislation will dangerously hamper day-to-day policing, flood America with illegal drugs and make modern investigations impossible. It gives a free pass to criminals and is a huge boost to our 448 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan3 Sep

Patriot 570 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan3 Sep

Have any era of people simply just done things as much as the Victorians just did things. 171.9K views · 4.6K likes · 120 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan3 Sep

5/x Before risking a ship, he built the room. In his garden at Denmark Hill, he erected a full-size test saloon on trunnions, driven by steam to imitate the worst of the Channel, and inside it the platform stayed level. https://t.co/69s7t3tjxV 20.3K views · 226 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan3 Sep

1/x The strangest job at sea in 1875: a man in a gilded salon, hand on a valve, eyes on a spirit level, keeping a 180 ton room level while the ship rolls around it. England built a Channel ferry around that job. She wrecked two piers and a man's pride. Meet the SS Bessemer. https 314K views · 1.9K likes · 117 reposts · 26 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan2 Sep

https://t.co/F4Zl6f5Hzi 1.1K views · 45 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan28 Aug

@Ned_Donovan Every surveillance technology makes catching criminals easier. Every surveillance technology limits privacy, is regularly abused and can be used to build a police state. More precision doesn't necessarily lead to less intrusion, it can easily lead to more. 1.5K views · 60 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan28 Aug

@Ned_Donovan The world before Flock seems worse for everyone (besides the criminals). https://t.co/6F4sdtH1uK 2.7K views · 19 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ned Donovan ✓@Ned_Donovan28 Aug

Flock has joined data centers, Covid vaccines, 5G towers, pasteurized milk and fracking in the pantheon of American moral panics. Its opponents believe it's abused by police with impunity, that it can track individuals as well as cars, and that it violates constitutional 126.8K views · 234 likes · 40 reposts · 110 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views2 694this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %12.26%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.40%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 694	924	2.92×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.26%	3.62%	3.39×
Engagement rate	1.40%	1.52%	0.92×

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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

126.8K28 Aug

2.7K

1.5K

1.1K2 Sep

314K3 Sep

20.3K

171.9K

570

448

2.7K

3.6K

1.6K

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.32%28 Aug

0.95%

4.22%

4.49%2 Sep

0.67%3 Sep

1.13%

2.76%

1.23%

1.56%

1.13%

9.08%

1.98%

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

What the audience does

Likes82.0%7 513 in total

Reposts3.1%284 in total

Replies1.9%172 in total

Quotes0.6%58 in total

Bookmarks12.4%1 132 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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Frequently asked questions about @Ned_Donovan

How many followers does @Ned_Donovan have?

21 979 followers.

How many posts has @Ned_Donovan published?

287 posts.

How do posts by @Ned_Donovan perform?

Collected posts: 12. Views: 647 155. Likes: 7 513.