Charles Preston ✓

@_CharlesPreston · Chicago, IL · joined 19 Mar 2011

Community Engagement for @InjusticeWatch. Co-Host of @hoodoisie. Member of TEMBO. #SaveCSU. I collect things.

33 330Followers

1 740Following

1 376Posts total

7.6MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Charles Preston ✓@_CharlesPreston13 Sep

Saw a Nick Cave in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Chicago is everywhere. https://t.co/hWReYDu8Ik

831 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Charles Preston ✓@_CharlesPreston11 Sep

Sometimes you have to walk in the neighborhood food spot and tell the kids in line that you’ll buy whatever they want, actually buy it, and then tell them to always look out for their people. 1.5K views · 25 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Charles Preston ✓@_CharlesPreston11 Sep

Damn FAMU. 989 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Charles Preston ✓@_CharlesPreston8 Sep

We gotta talk about the clipping era and how the right was putting belt-to-ass to the left. 1.1K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Charles Preston ✓@_CharlesPreston4 Jun

@_CharlesPreston Are you genuinely a fucking idiot 54 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Charles Preston ✓@_CharlesPreston3 Jun

Backrooms is racist film. It’s technically brilliant, but racist. And it’s a shame during a time where Black studies is being eliminated on college campuses because I fear people are overlooking the obvious tropes and racist callbacks the film ridiculously displays. 7.6M views · 3.1K likes · 162 reposts · 1.4K replies Open on X →

Charles Preston ✓@_CharlesPreston15 Apr

Link: https://t.co/1NUWwt0wYq https://t.co/kyo06svLxM

513 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Charles Preston ✓@_CharlesPreston15 Apr

I've been collecting radical ephemera, vinyl, and books, and keeping an online archive via Substack (link in bio). I acquired a press photo showing Gray Panther co-founder Maggie Kuhn at a 1974 demonstration in Chicago, outside an American Medical Association meeting at the http

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32.9K views · 34 likes · 7 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 034this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.10%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.56%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 034	924	1.12×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.10%	3.62%	0.86×
Engagement rate	0.56%	1.52%	0.37×

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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

32.9K15 Apr

513

7.6M3 Jun

544 Jun

1.1K8 Sep

98911 Sep

1.5K

83113 Sep

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

0.14%15 Apr

0.19%

0.06%3 Jun

1.85%4 Jun

0.65%8 Sep

0.00%11 Sep

2.31%

0.48%13 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes66.1%3 146 in total

Reposts3.7%177 in total

Replies29.9%1 424 in total

Bookmarks0.3%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.