Ben Beaumont-Thomas
@ben_bt · London, England · joined 13 Mar 2009
Music editor, @guardian
11 271Followers
2 905Following
8 764Posts total
176.7KViews on collected posts
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@ben_bt Based on that Boards of Canada review, I don't think music criticism is for you. Hilariously off-target.
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@ben_bt Did he have another confession to make? 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
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I did the first newspaper interview with Dave Grohl since his infidelity scandal, and since the deaths of his mother and Taylor Hawkins. He was powerful on grief, selfhood, ambition ... and we did an interesting dance around *that* issue too.
https://t.co/v0MqtBQcpl
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Really important report from Eamonn Forde looking at the implications of record labels getting in bed with generative AI companies
https://t.co/517bVI0HMu
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"[The Band] was my first major project as an engineer and I was a smart-ass kid, like calling Garth Hudson 'old man' thinking he was too old to stay awake, not realising he had narcolepsy." Very funny and wonderfully indiscreet stuff from Todd Rundgren.
https://t.co/MhW8t6e9V6
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Stunning, impassioned analysis of what made D'Angelo one of the greatest to ever do it. Thank you Daphne
https://t.co/gDB8kz3H58
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The Dare does not deserve to be up top outside this A-Z. In fact he should be in his own section below it
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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
1.4K7 Aug
2K15 Oct
2.5K16 Oct
2.6K16 Dec
165.1K20 Mar
811
2.2K21 Mar
7629 May
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
0.22%7 Aug
0.30%15 Oct
0.24%16 Oct
0.31%16 Dec
0.33%20 Mar
3.82%
1.08%21 Mar
6.58%29 May
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes61.2%521 in total
Reposts6.8%58 in total
Replies4.6%39 in total
Quotes0.9%8 in total
Bookmarks26.5%226 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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