Oliver Darcy ✓

@oliverdarcy · New York City · joined 27 Mar 2009

writing Status, a nightly newsletter covering covering media and the ever evolving information space. inbox: oliver@status.news

166 983Followers

1 998Following

71 899Posts total

5.3MViews on collected posts

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

203.1K24 Jun

90.7K

2.6M

376.5K27 Jun

257.6K6 Jul

1.8M25 Jul

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.11%24 Jun

0.16%

0.84%

0.13%27 Jun

0.19%6 Jul

0.40%25 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes60.6%18 458 in total

Reposts7.8%2 380 in total

Replies26.7%8 139 in total

Quotes3.9%1 186 in total

Bookmarks0.9%278 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

X Marks The End. Twitter is dead. This platform only reluctantly lives on as a zombie. Warped and disfigured, it marches on like a White Walker, an ugly shell of its former self under the command of a loathsome leader. RIP, Twitter. It was a fun ride. https://t.co/XamM4TjWwD 1.8M views · 1.9K likes · 351 reposts · 4.4K replies 25 Jul 2023 https://t.co/KwYlz1ZcCe 257.6K views · 87 likes · 5 reposts · 400 replies 06 Jul 2023 The post-Chris Licht era at CNN is taking shape. More in @ReliableSources: https://t.co/NHHubVIIqB 376.5K views · 340 likes · 41 reposts · 85 replies 27 Jun 2023 One notable thing about this rapidly developing international story: Since Elon Musk took a sledgehammer to Twitter’s verification system, the platform is far less useful during breaking news events, and so people are depending on traditional newsrooms for verifiable information. 2.6M views · 15.8K likes · 2K reposts · 3.3K replies 24 Jun 2023 The live-update format across all news websites serves news junkies who are plugged into the cycle well, but for those just trying to get their hands around the basic contours of the story? The old-school inverted pyramid style story probably works better. 90.7K views · 105 likes · 17 reposts · 22 replies 24 Jun 2023 The NYT live-blog is a daily disaster, but especially so during huge news events. Hard to fathom how it still exists. 203.1K views · 197 likes · 9 reposts · 5 replies 24 Jun 2023

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