Ian Young

@ianjamesyoung70 · Vancouver BC · joined 25 Oct 2012

BC and Yukon bureau chief for The Canadian Press @CdnPressNews. Ex-Vancouver correspondent for @SCMPNews. Read the story before commenting, brainiac.

23 681Followers

2 611Following

36 447Posts total

8.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ian Young@ianjamesyoung7010 Sep

The dumbing down of language really sticks in my food pipe 2.2K views · 31 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Ian Young@ianjamesyoung708 Sep

Can you kids pick up your bloody Lego?? Cambie Bridge in the northbound bike lane https://t.co/fgib9qZGk3

1.8K views · 23 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ian Young@ianjamesyoung7022 Aug

As a fan of puns I’ve fulfilled my lifelong goal of a dental appointment at two-thirty https://t.co/Tjgqf9ihs4

2.3K views · 39 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Ian Young@ianjamesyoung7022 Aug

Khun Oi and her partner Alan Morison were the acme of crusading journalism, and I was privileged to work with them on their exposure of human-trafficking in Thailand, their work done at grave personal risk 1.7K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ian Young@ianjamesyoung707 Apr 2022

Yes, it’s true. After 25 years at ⁦@SCMPNews⁩ , I’m moving on…I’ll be joining ⁦@CanadianPress⁩ as BC bureau chief this month! https://t.co/IjraW6ehrG

0 views · 1.3K likes · 49 reposts · 138 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views2 012this account966median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.49%this account3.66%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.50%this account1.51%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 012	966	2.08×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.49%	3.66%	2.32×
Engagement rate	1.50%	1.51%	0.99×

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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

1.7K22 Aug

2.3K

1.8K8 Sep

2.2K10 Sep

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.52%22 Aug

1.96%

1.34%8 Sep

1.65%10 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.51%.

What the audience does

Likes86.3%101 in total

Reposts2.6%3 in total

Replies9.4%11 in total

Bookmarks1.7%2 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.