Karam Bales

@karamballes · joined 20 Mar 2013

Counter Disinformation Project, Former NEU and ATL executive, Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy, Public speaker, Education-Head of Year

17 747Followers

9 427Following

144 432Posts total

16.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Karam Bales@karamballes17 Sep

Asmiov's Foundation was based on a future where AI had been banned because the reliance of humans on machines would have led to stagnation 446 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Karam Bales@karamballes17 Sep

It's about more than just the £72 Million Examing Reform's record donations and the wider third party infrastructure supporting the radical right https://t.co/kApYHMtskR https://t.co/9xNkon4UnZ

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Karam Bales@karamballes16 Sep

This is an important win for school budgets, always more to do but the NEU has helped save jobs which would likely have been lost in order to balance budgets 1.7K views · 24 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Karam Bales@karamballes16 Sep

It is true. Following a summer of constructive dialogue with the Secretary of State for Education, Lucy Powell, we have secured a fully funded pay award for this year. (https://t.co/9iEJC4kJMo) An additional £500 million in funding will be made available to schools. This is new

13.8K views · 88 likes · 20 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Karam Bales@karamballes14 Sep

They can still have fish and chips, just not deep fried. 592 views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Karam Bales@karamballes24 Sep 2021

Master Thread 2.0 please have a read 1. Old master thread, mainly UK Education and politics. Austerity and Academisation, how Goves Reforms let in the lobbyists and created revolving doors for a web of vested interests https://t.co/yXljrOpH23 0 views · 193 likes · 111 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Karam Bales@karamballes28 Aug 2019

Master Thread to manage my threads I'd like to reference. Please have a read 0 views · 54 likes · 19 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views592this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.34%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.57%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	592	924	0.64×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.34%	3.62%	0.92×
Engagement rate	1.57%	1.52%	1.03×

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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

59214 Sep

13.8K16 Sep

1.7K

24717 Sep

446

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.70%14 Sep

0.94%16 Sep

1.80%

0.81%17 Sep

1.57%

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

What the audience does

Likes69.3%131 in total

Reposts15.9%30 in total

Replies10.6%20 in total

Quotes2.6%5 in total

Bookmarks1.6%3 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.