Amy Coplan ✓

@amycoplan

Philosophy Prof at CSUF-personal acct; all views my own; pro-democracy, science,&humanities; lover of books,movies,music, &tv; devoted to my dog & a few others

6 105Followers

7 497Following

66 857Posts total

751.7KViews on collected posts

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Amy Coplan ✓@amycoplan5 Sep

@amycoplan @Microinteracti1 But it’s not “more accurate”. As noted it exchanges one set of issues with another. Fundamental challenge is trying to display a 3D object on 2D. It’s fine to favor one over the other but don’t claim that it’s “more accurate.” 1.1K views · 67 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Amy Coplan ✓@amycoplan5 Sep

@amycoplan @Microinteracti1 But the new map is not more accurate. It changes angles, shapes, and directions, in order to show „area size” somewhat correctly”. For practical purposes like navigation it’s actually useless. Mercator shows important things more accurately. Google and 953 views · 37 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Amy Coplan ✓@amycoplan5 Sep

@amycoplan @Microinteracti1 And that's why it's misleading, you think a 2d projection can be an accurate map of a globe. No. 712 views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Amy Coplan ✓@amycoplan5 Sep

@Microinteracti1 The symbolic significance of the U.S. voting against adopting a more accurate map is so blatant that it would be implausible if this were a plot point in a novel. We prefer an inaccurate map that makes us appear larger than we actually are to an accurate one. C 25K views · 336 likes · 12 reposts · 25 replies Open on X →

Amy Coplan ✓@amycoplan4 Sep

For four and a half centuries the world has been getting its geography from a Flemish mapmaker named Gerardus Mercator, who in 1569 produced a chart that was splendid for sailing ships and terrible for almost everything else. It made Greenland look roughly the size of Africa, htt 723.9K views · 7.9K likes · 1.5K reposts · 339 replies Open on X →

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5 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 130this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %18.51%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %2.53%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 130	4 175	0.27×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	18.51%	2.5× audience	0.07×
Engagement rate	2.53%	1.41%	1.79×

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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

723.9K4 Sep

25K5 Sep

712

953

1.1K

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

1.37%4 Sep

1.49%5 Sep

2.53%

4.20%

6.19%

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

What the audience does

Likes71.1%8 361 in total

Reposts13.2%1 552 in total

Replies3.1%370 in total

Quotes1.4%165 in total

Bookmarks11.1%1 311 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.

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