Jim Russell

@ProducerCities

Ironic geography & Rust Belt geopolitics

5 267Followers

402Following

56 330Posts total

71.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Jim Russell@ProducerCities2 Sep

@ProducerCities Great views, fresh water, close to downtown and neighborhoods. Useable for about half the year, enough time to enjoy it and ... appreciate the seasons https://t.co/5nMkPD0lAm

738 views · 28 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jim Russell@ProducerCities2 Sep

@ProducerCities "Forever open, free and clear" has been the rule for our Chicago lakefront from the beginning. What a gift our ancestors saved for us. 1.1K views · 43 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jim Russell@ProducerCities1 Sep

@ProducerCities I find it more surprising this is not a widely held view. 1.4K views · 25 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jim Russell@ProducerCities1 Sep

"The best US beach cities are Miami, LA, Honolulu, Chicago ...Wait. Chicago? Well yes, at least for me" https://t.co/78zervz5h5 https://t.co/wQM5heDHIA

68.1K views · 377 likes · 40 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views1 215this account3 861median for under 10K

Reach, %23.07%this account278.63%median for under 10K

Engagement, %2.81%this account1.44%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 215	3 861	0.31×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	23.07%	2.8× audience	0.08×
Engagement rate	2.81%	1.44%	1.95×

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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

68.1K1 Sep

1.4K

1.1K2 Sep

738

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.64%1 Sep

1.83%

4.22%2 Sep

3.79%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.44%.

What the audience does

Likes81.6%473 in total

Reposts7.1%41 in total

Replies1.2%7 in total

Quotes2.4%14 in total

Bookmarks7.8%45 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.