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Josh Shepperd

@joshshepperd · joined 17 Nov 2015

Associate Prof, University of Colorado; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Currently writing the official history of US public media

27 134Followers
20 725Following
3 971Posts total
17.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views1 100this account1 045median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.06%this account3.41%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %4.43%this account2.02%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post1 1001 0451.05×
Reach (views ÷ followers)4.06%3.41%1.19×
Engagement rate4.43%2.02%2.20×

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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

2K27 Aug
2.6K31 Aug
5.3K2 Sep
77
68
413 Sep
3.3K4 Sep
3.6K5 Sep
227
896 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

7.09%27 Aug
3.99%31 Aug
6.08%2 Sep
2.60%
5.88%
4.88%3 Sep
1.77%4 Sep
5.49%5 Sep
1.32%
1.12%6 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.02%.

What the audience does

Likes82.6%712 in total
Reposts5.6%48 in total
Replies8.2%71 in total
Quotes0.2%2 in total
Bookmarks3.4%29 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

Happy birthday also to Werner Herzog, John Cage, Freddie Mercury, Jesse James, and Louis the 14th 89 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 06 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@joshshepperd Happy birthday and do enjoy the day! 227 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
It’s my birthday. No regrets, and onward. 3.6K views · 158 likes · 1 reposts · 37 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
I was interviewed by Times Higher Education about the changing landscape of Academic Twitter, and how the conditions and institutional support for public scholarship shifted over the past three years. https://t.co/k8iI95mJoV 3.3K views · 48 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@joshshepperd That’s awesome!! Congrats. Sounds like a great conference colab. My next book project is on the framing of automobilism in Mexican cinema as part of the country’s fraught modernizing project in the 20th century. 41 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@joshshepperd What airborne illness protections will be used at your conference? 68 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
@joshshepperd Congrats sounds exciting. 77 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Looks like I’ll be the director of an academic conference as part of University of Colorado’s new partnership with the Sundance Film Festival, coming to Boulder in January. It’ll be baby steps this year, but there will be a lot to plan for January 2028. https://t.co/wrWvnikPwk 5.3K views · 276 likes · 14 reposts · 30 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →
Something about how reading closely stimulated my imagination made me want to think for a living. Really, it seemed like there was no other choice after I learned to see the shapes of arguments. Hopefully there’ll still be space left for that kind of work in the late academy. 2.6K views · 98 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 31 Aug 2026 · Open on X →
RIP Yayoi Kusama, genius among geniuses. https://t.co/UGfqoL4Tl6 2K views · 120 likes · 18 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

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