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Bernard T. Joy ✓

@bernardtjoy · joined 11 Oct 2010

PhD from @UofGlasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction.

24 480Followers
26 927Following
33 826Posts total
6.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Life is all dilemmas. 260 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
There is no worse downgrade than the downgrade from appreciation to tolerance. When something is beautiful in a manner the largest part of society does not understand it is a palpable violence to only tolerate it. 787 views · 23 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@bernardtjoy "The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a subjugated plain, Among it's desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips." W.H. A 21 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@bernardtjoy Academics spring from the Earth, or fall from the Sky. No mere mortals, they! 🫥 62 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@bernardtjoy Spontaneous generation, like the eels we resemble. 84 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@bernardtjoy From the forehead of Zeus. Duh. 51 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Today I have come under the bizarre criticism of “being an academic,” “working in a university” and daring to talk about sex. Where do these people think all the baby academics come from? 3.3K views · 93 likes · 2 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →
@bernardtjoy You still wake up to the tweets. What's there to complain? 😅 27 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@bernardtjoy When I was young I thought it was glorious to wake up to the birds every morning. Now they piss me tf off with all their racket while I’m trying to sleep. 13 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
When I was young I used to wake up to the birds in the trees. Now I wake up to the trolls in the comments. 1.6K views · 65 likes · 0 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →
My PhD thesis just passed with no corrections!! I'm seldom overcome, but today I might just be. https://t.co/hbdEXGGc9l
0 views · 2.5K likes · 195 reposts · 214 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views73this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %0.30%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %4.45%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post739240.08×
Reach (views ÷ followers)0.30%3.62%0.08×
Engagement rate4.45%1.52%2.93×

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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

1.6K23 Sep
13
27
3.3K
51
84
62
21
787
26024 Sep

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

4.67%23 Sep
15.38%
14.81%
3.41%
3.92%
3.57%
4.84%
4.76%
3.30%
4.23%24 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes84.5%201 in total
Reposts1.3%3 in total
Replies12.6%30 in total
Quotes1.3%3 in total
Bookmarks0.4%1 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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