Atlas Obscura ✓

@atlasobscura · Everywhere · joined 15 Jul 2009

Our mission is to inspire wonder and curiosity about the incredible world we all share. Join us.

392 293Followers

2 947Following

92 245Posts total

45.9KViews on collected posts

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@atlasobscura 17th-century ivory manikins in NYC. Weird and fascinating. 55 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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@atlasobscura Both words come from the old Dutch word “manneken”, which means “little man”. 139 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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The New York Academy of Medicine maintains a collection of extremely rare ivory anatomical manikins from the 17th century. The term “manikin,” we should note, denotes a human figure designed for medical simulation, whereas a “mannequin” is normally relegated to matters of https:/

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Atlas Obscura ✓@atlasobscura6 Sep

🥤 Most archaeologists study pottery shards, ancient tools, or ruins. Jobbe Wijnen studies the little metal tabs that open your soda. The Dutch contemporary archaeologist has spent years building a reference collection of pull tabs, documenting more than 70 distinct types. What

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Atlas Obscura ✓@atlasobscura6 Sep

@atlasobscura The strongest part is the specific historical detail; it gives the broad story something concrete to rest on. 13 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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@atlasobscura That’s an egg custard? 45 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Atlas Obscura ✓@atlasobscura5 Sep

🥧 If South Africa had an official national dessert pie, melktert would have a pretty strong claim to the title. Meaning “milk tart” in Afrikaans, melktert is a creamy custard pie traditionally made with milk, sugar, eggs, and a thickener, then finished with a generous dusting h

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Atlas Obscura ✓@atlasobscura4 Sep

Who Knew Illinois Had This Many Spooky Places? https://t.co/YuSlwl1b5G 7K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Atlas Obscura ✓@atlasobscura4 Sep

🌍 The Hunt-Lenox globe is the second-oldest surviving terrestrial globe and also the oldest known globe to depict the Americas. The globe is covered in hidden details, including the Latin phrase, HC SVNT DRACONES, or “here be dragons.” Learn more about the Hunt-Lenox globe http

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Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 313this account4 600median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.84%this account1.64%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.29%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 313	4 600	0.72×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.84%	1.64%	0.51×
Engagement rate	0.29%	1.25%	0.23×

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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

6.5K4 Sep

11K5 Sep

136 Sep

6.7K

14.3K7 Sep

139

124

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.66%4 Sep

0.10%

0.25%5 Sep

2.22%

0.00%6 Sep

0.34%

1.79%7 Sep

0.00%

0.81%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes66.6%293 in total

Reposts12.7%56 in total

Replies2.3%10 in total

Bookmarks18.4%81 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.