Colby Cosh ✓

@colbycosh · Planet Zontar (Edmonton, AB) · joined 02 Dec 2008

Columnist for the National Post (est. 1998). colbycosh@gmail.com

13 146Followers

988Following

178 982Posts total

19.6KViews on collected posts

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Colby Cosh ✓@colbycosh24 Sep

Former Green leader Andrew Weaver now running under CentreBC banner https://t.co/GHr4uEV2Bf 194 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Colby Cosh ✓@colbycosh24 Sep

It turns out that when you crunch this sophisticated situational analysis down, the result is "30th in runs scored." (They're actually one ahead of the Angels with one less game played.) 730 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Colby Cosh ✓@colbycosh24 Sep

"Long-term strategic foresight"? I'll save myself a few bucks and write "The one-child policy remained in place until December 2015" on a sheet of paper and then read that 500 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Colby Cosh ✓@colbycosh24 Sep

I just spent the last two hours in a deep-dive conversation with Logan Wright, who has written what I think is the most insightful and provocative book on China's economy written to date. Logan essentially argues that the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity is in

8K views · 101 likes · 14 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Colby Cosh ✓@colbycosh24 Sep

It's my job to make the joke that the prettiest parts of Saskatchewan are all next door to Alberta, then step away from the keyboard and wait nine minutes for a British Columbian to say the same thing about Alberta and B.C. 2.8K views · 23 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Colby Cosh ✓@colbycosh24 Sep

The river gods will eventually take everything around us, a little at a time 872 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Colby Cosh ✓@colbycosh23 Sep

The end may be near for the “End of the World” as we know it. #yeg https://t.co/q5GpNzbvVD 6.6K views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 2 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 widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views872this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.63%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.57%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	872	924	0.94×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.63%	3.62%	1.83×
Engagement rate	0.57%	1.52%	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

6.6K23 Sep

87224 Sep

2.8K

500

730

194

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

0.14%23 Sep

0.57%24 Sep

1.01%

1.65%

0.40%

1.10%

0.00%

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

What the audience does

Likes52.9%138 in total

Reposts7.3%19 in total

Replies9.2%24 in total

Quotes1.1%3 in total

Bookmarks29.5%77 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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