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Pádraig Belton

@PadraigBelton · London, Dublin, and Oxford · joined 06 May 2008

Journalist. BBC, and a few other places. Buys nappies on eBay.

80 033Followers
78 510Following
37 618Posts total
78.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Just as it happens I'm in Glasgow this Saturday night. I do have a Talisker tasting window in Merchant City around midnight, where I can find an open hostelry before flopping for a few short hours in cheap digs. I realise this is whisk(e)y business. 733 views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
Anglo-Saxon and Norman French would have been simple yet hardcore: Þu scealt symle faran andlang þæs webbes. Ne geswic þu. Tu dais aler tuz jurs le lung de la tapicerie. Ne t'arestez mie. 2.9K views · 51 likes · 6 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
What's incredible is India, a country with a demonstrably world-leading tech sector, has a visa website seemingly crafted in 1998 on WordPerfect by a nine year-old, which spins and then triumphantly dies each time you try to submit your application, making you start all over http
12.4K views · 47 likes · 5 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →
I have about 20 minutes every night when Caroline, Carlotta, and Liam are all in my bed, around 3 am. I take a minute to remember I will someday miss all this intensely, then bunk off to sleep in one of their vacant, intensely uncomfortable beds. 4.3K views · 184 likes · 2 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →
@PadraigBelton Dalwhinnie? Really? 🤔 Ok, If you’re not used to good single malt, I suppose it’ll do. I prefer stronger island whiskies myself, hence I’d pick the Talisker out of that choice above (which is pretty poor to begin with…but well) 281 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Though is it A Aye? (Hen?) 3.1K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Am tonight in Edinburgh. I asked AI to choose the right whisk(/e)y. Genuine real-life Scots have told me 1. Why on God’s green earth would you ask AI something so important And also 2. Okay AI was correct https://t.co/AU2C28JKcj
52.2K views · 76 likes · 1 reposts · 31 replies Open on X →
Popping outside to enjoy some London weather before I go back airside There that’s enough London weather. 2.8K views · 60 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views2 972this account949median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.71%this account3.49%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.71%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post2 9729493.13×
Reach (views ÷ followers)3.71%3.49%1.06×
Engagement rate1.71%1.55%1.10×

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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

2.8K13 Sep
52.2K
3.1K
281
4.3K14 Sep
12.4K
2.9K16 Sep
733

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.28%13 Sep
0.21%
0.33%
1.78%
4.63%14 Sep
0.49%
2.16%16 Sep
1.64%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes83.3%440 in total
Reposts3.0%16 in total
Replies11.4%60 in total
Quotes0.8%4 in total
Bookmarks1.5%8 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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