John McCafferty

@jdmccafferty · UCD, Ireland · joined 03 Sep 2015

Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.

38 742Followers

4 498Following

161 461Posts total

7.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 148this account1 328median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.96%this account4.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.53%this account1.94%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 148	1 328	0.86×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.96%	4.18%	0.71×
Engagement rate	3.53%	1.94%	1.82×

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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

1.1K4 Sep

1.2K

1.3K

395 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

4.79%4 Sep

2.65%

3.84%

3.45%

3.53%

6.90%

0.00%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.94%.

What the audience does

Likes75.7%221 in total

Reposts16.8%49 in total

Replies1.7%5 in total

Quotes1.0%3 in total

Bookmarks4.8%14 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.

Latest posts

@jdmccafferty Actually, looks very Italian. Regarding his facial features.. 39 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 @jdmccafferty Do we know who the subject was, John? The specificity of that face makes it hard to believe it was anonymous. 29 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 4 Sept 1607: Flight of the #Ulster Earls of #Tyrone Ó Néill & #Tyrconnell Ó Domhnaill begins #otd from Lough Swilly. The sole eyewitness account of their long journey to Rome by Tadhg Ó Cianáin is in now in @ucdarchives as part of the Franciscan deposit. https://t.co/U2xTp 1.3K views · 35 likes · 10 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Bust of a young man around 1530-40, previously attributed to Conrad Meit. An amazing likeness. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) https://t.co/9fX4p1UGzF 3K views · 83 likes · 16 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 4 Sept 1658: Richard Cromwell proclaimed Protector of #England, #Scotland & #Ireland in London. During the afternoon he met the lord mayor and aldermen to receive their condolences on his father's death and congratulations & then took the oath of office #otd (NPG) https:/ 1.2K views · 34 likes · 8 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 4 Sept 1547: Nicholas Ridley, #protestant reformer elected Bishop of #Rochester #otd - his first bishopric, he was later bishop of #London. Executed on 16 Oct 1555 at #Oxford with Latimer (NPG/BM) https://t.co/tqeusNvYnq 1K views · 21 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 4 Sept 1390: Henry (IV) Bolingbroke and his knights arrive at #Vilnius #otd to take part in the Lithuanian civil war https://t.co/ZQWkfS7PaJ 1.1K views · 46 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026