Asterisk

@asteriskmgzn

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8 757Followers

102Following

1 063Posts total

397.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Asterisk@asteriskmgzn3 Sep

@asteriskmgzn The case study I often draw on when thinking about this is retirement communities: residents usually had jobs for a long time, but they're in new social networks where no one has known them while they were working. People seem pretty happy there IIRC, except for the 7.3K views · 46 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Asterisk@asteriskmgzn2 Sep

https://t.co/JYLXpDwAFi 31.5K views · 135 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Asterisk@asteriskmgzn2 Sep

We already know what a world without work looks like. It's the life of 18th century aristocrats, who concerned themselves with political gossip and petty dramas; of society ladies in the 1980s, who spent their time hosting and volunteering; and Italian-Americans in 1950s Boston,

358.5K views · 1.1K likes · 92 reposts · 28 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views31 458this account3 629median for under 10K

Reach, %359.23%this account221.52%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.46%this account1.40%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	31 458	3 629	8.67×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.6× audience	2.2× audience	1.62×
Engagement rate	0.46%	1.40%	0.33×

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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

358.5K2 Sep

31.5K

7.3K3 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

0.36%2 Sep

0.46%

0.69%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes49.9%1 294 in total

Reposts3.9%101 in total

Replies1.3%33 in total

Quotes2.0%53 in total

Bookmarks42.9%1 113 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.