Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ ✓

@mercoglianos · North Carolina, USA · joined 03 Oct 2014

Chair Dept of History, Crim Justice & Pol Science, Faculty Athletic Rep @campbelledu, Maritime Historian, Mariner, Firefighter & What's Going On With Shipping?

97 358Followers

2 676Following

98 821Posts total

114.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views3 070this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.15%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.16%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 070	3 383	0.91×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.15%	10.96%	0.29×
Engagement rate	1.16%	1.40%	0.82×

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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

22.9K2 Sep

2.8K3 Sep

3.1K

2.5K

82.8K

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

1.16%2 Sep

1.07%3 Sep

1.40%

1.96%

0.45%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes70.4%584 in total

Reposts14.0%116 in total

Replies5.2%43 in total

Quotes1.8%15 in total

Bookmarks8.6%71 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

20 empty Iran-flagged tankers are currently loitering off Sri Lanka—namely, STREAM, HALTI, DREAM II, HERO II, SILVIA I, SEA CLIFF, SNOW, HELM, DIAMOND II, DEEP SEA, DUNE, DINO I, SONIA I, HERBY, SEVIN, AMBER, HENNA, FELICITY, HUGE, and DORE. From August 23, most of these https:// 82.8K views · 286 likes · 49 reposts · 26 replies 03 Sep 2026 War Risk Claims Top $2 Billion as Shipping Attacks Spread Beyond Hormuz “There have been around $2 billion in war risk claims since the outbreak of the fighting in the Middle East, with over 70 claims to date,” explained David Osler, Law & Marine Insurance Editor at Lloyd’s 2.5K views · 34 likes · 12 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 Data from @HFI_Research on US Distillate, Gasoline, and overall storage. All is below the 5-year average. This means any further disruption can cause levels to drop further. https://t.co/GMlgAHhy0q 3.1K views · 35 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Vehicle carrier newbuild boom continues as Ray Carrier Carriers signs 10-ship order 🚢Tonnage provider Ray Car Carriers has ordered 10 pure car and truck carriers from China’s Guangzhou Shipyard International, in a deal worth more than $1bn 🚢The 8,200 ceu vessels will be 2.8K views · 28 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 W*T*H: What the Hormuz Is Going On? ⚓Recent Tanker Attacks: A detailed breakdown of the five most recent attacks on tankers in and around the Strait of Hormuz, including the Metro Venetian, Al Salam 2, and Bergen. ⚓The "Blockade" Reality: Analyzing the effectiveness of the https 22.9K views · 201 likes · 46 reposts · 13 replies 02 Sep 2026