Brian Whelan

@brianwhelanhack · London · joined 20 Mar 2009

You can't read nonsense with impunity

14 145Followers

3 280Following

60 874Posts total

92.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Brian Whelan@brianwhelanhack5 Sep

A 72-year-old woman was arrested for blocking the road to an arms fair this week 473 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Brian Whelan@brianwhelanhack3 Sep

Arms Fair: If household items like superglue can be repurposed, so can arms factories. The skills, tools & ingenuity of the Welsh arms industry could be repurposed towards socially useful production: public transport, medical equipment, green technologies https://t.co/ac2oejmG7S 1.9K views · 77 likes · 35 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Brian Whelan@brianwhelanhack26 Aug

I thought this was a clever joke about Living Marxism/RCP and their line on South Africa... https://t.co/2keM6FhH1j 888 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Brian Whelan@brianwhelanhack26 Aug

"In the 1980s, could you be on the left and be pro apartheid South Africa?" @mehdirhasan was challenged by Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio about why the US left should care about issues "from the other side of the world" like Gaza. His answer on Wednesday was simple: because https:

1:53

10.8K views · 179 likes · 38 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Brian Whelan@brianwhelanhack22 Aug

Puts HS2 in perspective. Ireland's only railway catering trolley. 999 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Brian Whelan@brianwhelanhack17 Aug

Recorded a week ago but incredibly grim from Starkey and Nathan Cofnas celebrating their 'vengeance' against Cambridge and Arday. https://t.co/Sct61wj5z4

2:24

75.3K views · 813 likes · 208 reposts · 95 replies Open on X →

Brian Whelan@brianwhelanhack17 Aug

After the murder of Jo Cox, many media outlets, including The Economist, called out the danger of hyper-partisan rhetoric - specifically labelling people 'traitors'. 1.7K views · 20 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views1 722this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %12.17%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.28%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 722	924	1.86×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.17%	3.62%	3.36×
Engagement rate	1.28%	1.52%	0.84×

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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

1.7K17 Aug

75.3K

99922 Aug

10.8K26 Aug

888

1.9K3 Sep

4735 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.28%17 Aug

1.48%

0.10%22 Aug

2.10%26 Aug

0.11%

6.03%3 Sep

0.42%5 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes54.2%1 093 in total

Reposts14.0%283 in total

Replies5.3%107 in total

Bookmarks26.5%535 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.