Tim Bryars

@TimBryars

Antiquarian map & bookseller in Cecil Court, WC2. Half of Bryars & Bryars; co-organiser London Map Fair; co-author 'A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps'.

1 973Followers

535Following

4 824Posts total

13.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Tim Bryars@TimBryars18 Sep

@TimBryars @janeyellene @LondonGasketeer yes, great work @TimBryars and team... 21 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Tim Bryars@TimBryars18 Sep

@janeyellene Huge public support for our @LondonGasketeer campaign a couple of years ago saved the remaining working gas lamps in Westminster (and we still have Lamplighters, too!) Plenty to see around Cecil Court, Covent Garden, Smith Square and St James's, still with their dist 282 views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Tim Bryars@TimBryars17 Sep

What a sad sight, probably around the 1930s, piles of old street lamps that had once lit Britain's streets, now ripped out and ready for scrap as newer lighting took over. Nobody thought much of them then, but just look at those beautiful old lanterns. We'd probably be trying to

13.5K views · 488 likes · 51 reposts · 27 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views282this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %14.29%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %4.76%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	282	4 175	0.07×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	14.29%	2.5× audience	0.06×
Engagement rate	4.76%	1.41%	3.38×

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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

13.5K17 Sep

28218 Sep

Last 3 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.25%17 Sep

4.96%18 Sep

4.76%

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

What the audience does

Likes83.2%500 in total

Reposts8.8%53 in total

Replies4.7%28 in total

Quotes1.3%8 in total

Bookmarks2.0%12 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.