Shannon McDermott

@Shannon_MMcD

Author of THE TIME DOOR and SINGULARITY. Mostly what I am reading or watching, with forays into religion and history. Not a safe space, but a good space.

270Followers

128Following

5 268Posts total

11.5MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Shannon McDermott@Shannon_MMcD15h

@Shannon_MMcD United 93 was great but it flopped because it was too real. People couldn’t handle it. Oliver Stone did a silver-lining story with World Trade Center, which also was not a hit. Studio executives want very badly not to get fired so they avoid things that audiences re 3.7K views · 84 likes · 4 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Shannon McDermott@Shannon_MMcD19h

@Shannon_MMcD It seemed almost too sacred to put into pop culture. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer was a well done and touching novel. I didn’t appreciate the film adaptation as much. 13.5K views · 165 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Shannon McDermott@Shannon_MMcD20h

@Shannon_MMcD There's at least one pretty bad 9/11 movie about the Towers (with Nicholas Cage, I think) and a couple different ones (I think) about Flight 93, one directed by Paul Greengrass that I seem to remember was pretty good. I should rewatch. 13K views · 67 likes · 0 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Shannon McDermott@Shannon_MMcD20h

9/11 was so shattering, so singular. It is strange that it has so little presence in popular culture. Where are the great 9/11 movies - or the bad ones? How many stories have even alluded to it? Just references, the idea that 9/11 happened and people heard of it. 281.7K views · 779 likes · 26 reposts · 395 replies Open on X →

Shannon McDermott@Shannon_MMcD7 Sep

One of the most haunting visualizations of September 11, 2001: watch as the skies over the United States suddenly empty as the FAA grounds all flights. https://t.co/XD0O4ziMgz

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11.2M views · 17K likes · 2.1K reposts · 231 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views13 525this account2 436median for under 10K

Reach, %5009.26%this account159.44%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.62%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	13 525	2 436	5.55×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	50.1× audience	159.44%	31.4×
Engagement rate	0.62%	1.41%	0.44×

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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

11.2M7 Sep

281.7K9 Sep

13K

13.5K

3.7K10 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.17%7 Sep

0.43%9 Sep

0.62%

1.26%

2.61%10 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes85.7%18 061 in total

Reposts10.2%2 156 in total

Replies3.1%652 in total

Bookmarks1.0%207 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.