Ben Goldacre ✓

@bengoldacre · Oxford, England · joined 09 Jun 2007

Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science, more. I run https://t.co/NsF4BBoZ5V making tools+papers from data https://t.co/v6679t19rv https://t.co/bGysxEAgnn

390 381Followers

3 256Following

71 113Posts total

106.6KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ben Goldacre ✓@bengoldacre25 Jul

@bengoldacre Remember Russell Acott’s? I could spend hours in there. Can still remember going in there when I was at primary school to buy my first recorder - and then again to buy an even more exciting tenor recorder! 🎶 1.8K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ben Goldacre ✓@bengoldacre25 Jul

@bengoldacre Oxford Violins is still at the corner of North Parade and Banbury Road 1.9K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Goldacre ✓@bengoldacre24 Jul

@bengoldacre I bought my first ever electric guitar and second bass guitar from him (are we not naming G out of privacy? Hah!) - also at age 16, I think. I must pop in and see him again, so glad he and the shop are still there. 3.7K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Goldacre ✓@bengoldacre24 Jul

Just went to The Music Box on Cowley Rd to get my guitar fixed. I bought it in 1990 aged 16 for £85, from him. Now he's the only instrument shop left in Oxford. No smiling photos because (a) I'm not like that (b) as you'd hope from a great guitar shop he's appalled at the 50.8K views · 300 likes · 7 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Ben Goldacre ✓@bengoldacre10 Jul

HISTORIC MOMENT Today at 14:40 Dr Mark Russell from KCL pressed the button to execute the first ever job on the new OpenSAFELY service. Until today, OpenSAFELY was COVID only. Now we are open to critical analyses that improve all patient care, on GP records, securely, at scale.

11K views · 51 likes · 16 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ben Goldacre ✓@bengoldacre24 Jun

planning a stern letter to the climate change denialists. 10.1K views · 71 likes · 6 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Ben Goldacre ✓@bengoldacre1 Jun

*EPIC FREE LECTURE ON THURSDAY IN OXFORD* Our heroic CTO Seb Bacon on open science, open code, OpenSAFELY and more! 10.6K views · 7 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Goldacre ✓@bengoldacre26 May

Inaugural Lecture Klaxon! Our magnificent CTO Seb Bacon is a hero of the modern age, and now PROFESSOR Seb Bacon... Come to his inaugural lecture in Oxford! OpenSAFELY! OpenPrescribing! TrialsTracker! OpenCorporates! Open Code! Open Everything! https://t.co/WX2e9dkvMY 16.8K views · 10 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views3 693this account6 739median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.95%this account1.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.37%this account1.00%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	3 693	6 739	0.55×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.95%	1.71%	0.55×
Engagement rate	0.37%	1.00%	0.38×

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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

16.8K26 May

10.6K1 Jun

10.1K24 Jun

11K10 Jul

50.8K24 Jul

3.7K

1.9K25 Jul

1.8K

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

0.10%26 May

0.11%1 Jun

0.93%24 Jun

0.66%10 Jul

0.62%24 Jul

0.08%

0.37%25 Jul

0.33%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.00%.

What the audience does

Likes81.7%452 in total

Reposts7.1%39 in total

Replies5.4%30 in total

Quotes1.1%6 in total

Bookmarks4.7%26 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.