Alan Cross 🇨🇦

@alancross · Toronto · joined 27 Feb 2008

Professional music geek. TV/Radio Broadcaster, writer, speaker & consultant. Get my new children's book! The Science of Song https://t.co/i5U4SczLMi

58 298Followers

916Following

130 047Posts total

13.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Alan Cross 🇨🇦@alancross14 Sep

This story is right out of science fiction—yet it’s real. Wow. 738 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Alan Cross 🇨🇦@alancross13 Sep

Security at Kelowna airport @YKW at 10:45 Sunday morning: All five lines open, all using machines that don’t require removing laptops and tablets. Why does regional airport have better security/passenger handling than at @YYZ , the biggest and busiest airport in Canada? 2.2K views · 23 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Alan Cross 🇨🇦@alancross12 Sep

Security at @yvr at 9:30 am on a Saturday (domestic passengers only): Four lanes open (plus one priority lane), all using machines that don't require you to remove your laptops and tablets. Friendly people. 2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Alan Cross 🇨🇦@alancross11 Sep

I love history bits like this. 1.8K views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Alan Cross 🇨🇦@alancross29 Jan

Who's with me? https://t.co/ZxY1K2wHt8

7K views · 19 likes · 4 reposts · 15 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 900this account1 098median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.26%this account3.91%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.42%this account1.66%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 900	1 098	1.73×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.26%	3.91%	0.83×
Engagement rate	0.42%	1.66%	0.25×

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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

7K29 Jan

1.8K11 Sep

2K12 Sep

2.2K13 Sep

73814 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

0.54%29 Jan

0.39%11 Sep

0.45%12 Sep

1.31%13 Sep

0.00%14 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.66%.

What the audience does

Likes63.9%53 in total

Reposts8.4%7 in total

Replies27.7%23 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.