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Gary Younge

@garyyounge · London · joined 28 May 2010

Sociology Professor University of Manchester. Journalist. Author. Broadcaster. Type Media Fellow. Insta garyyounge. Order Dispatches @ https://t.co/Ok9JUSOG2m

122 337Followers
1 504Following
12 037Posts total
920KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

@garyyounge War criminals get less scrutiny than this average university professor. https://t.co/jUAPmqxbkF
29K views · 1.1K likes · 128 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →
From Pigeoholed: Creative Resistance as an Act of Freedom 45.4K views · 724 likes · 45 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
"When people talk about the need for Black Excellence I counter with an insistence on Black mediocrity: the right for black people to be as average, flawed, compromised & mistaken as any other group of people. The right, ultimately, to be human." R.I.P. Jason Arday 799.9K views · 42K likes · 9K reposts · 319 replies Open on X →
2/2 https://t.co/VdjLtypags 10K views · 77 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Sorry to hear about the death of Garry Sobers, after whom I was named. 1/2 https://t.co/CdmqBW2MoE 25.2K views · 393 likes · 39 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →
"This demographic get most of its news from social media feeds, consumed incidentally amid footage of fights, diet tips & dance crazes... But it is encountered nonetheless. If we remove access, we need to create alternative routes to news & information." .https://t.co/XUoy4Aw2aT 5.7K views · 20 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@Keirstarmer - some musical inspiration for a difficult day. https://t.co/ewqsa6Ok10 4.7K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Covering the Mandela & Obama elections, Katrina, #BLM, guns, knives, riots & statues. Drinking with Maya Angelou in her limo, talking politics with Stormzy on his couch & seeing Archbishop Desmond Tutu nod off mid-interview. It's all there. pre-order@ https://t.co/mbvt64hhyq ht
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0 views · 366 likes · 79 reposts · 25 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views29 041this account5 830median for 100K–1M
Reach, %23.74%this account1.52%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.76%this account0.97%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post29 0415 8304.98×
Reach (views ÷ followers)23.74%1.52%15.6×
Engagement rate1.76%0.97%1.81×

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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

4.7K12 May
5.7K18 Jun
25.2K17 Jul
10K
799.9K14 Aug
45.4K
29K

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

0.23%12 May
0.49%18 Jun
1.76%17 Jul
0.91%
6.43%14 Aug
1.70%
4.42%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.97%.

What the audience does

Likes77.0%44 348 in total
Reposts16.0%9 197 in total
Replies0.6%348 in total
Quotes0.4%202 in total
Bookmarks6.1%3 530 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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