Sophia Smith Galer

@sophiasgaler · your FYP · joined 07 May 2011

Journalist & language nerd. Ex BBC & VICE. Won a British Journalism Award, Georgina Henry Award & Xmas Uni Challenge. Rarely on here now…

42 051Followers

4 377Following

26 987Posts total

233.8KViews on collected posts

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Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler16 Aug

Thank you Edinburgh 🥹 now onto St Andrews to continue the How To Kill A Language book tour https://t.co/zNtOWQonzg

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Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler13 Aug

get it here ✌️ https://t.co/2yZTVuvJJC 2.4K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler12 Aug

@sophiasgaler the giraffe one kind of iconic tho 11.2K views · 423 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler12 Aug

I feel so incredibly lucky that Elisha Zepeda designed my book cover. Here he is showing all the ideas he had. They’re all beautiful - but one spoke more to my book’s message than any other 📕 💔 https://t.co/I8jS4RMQ81

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Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler11 Aug

The New Yorker saga continues with one hell of an awful letter, written in by an American now living in Ireland. The second last sentence is…incredible. https://t.co/3zXvskIvhK

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Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler29 Jul

@sophiasgaler I agree! Often, throughout history, languages have died. And sometimes when artifacts of those languages are found, it’s shopping lists, or tax records, or whatever. I also think it’s ok to let @NewYorker die, and just cancelled my subscription, because they offer 1.2K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler29 Jul

@sophiasgaler I read his piece and honestly couldn't remember reading something as tiresome. "Yes, Indigenous languages contain important insights - but sometimes they're wrong!" Or "oh you think we should preserve languages? So you dont want more hospitals?" Just a pick-me phil 1.3K views · 29 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler29 Jul

@sophiasgaler Hi Sophia, in spite of that incendiary title, Nikhil Krishnan wrote a thoughtful and nuanced article. I think he had interesting points about the logistics and trade-offs with language preservation and made a persuasive case on having languages exist and die from na 1.2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler29 Jul

People keep wanting me to respond to the New Yorker review. I’d rather talk about this! https://t.co/6HbF1D6tqD

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Sophia Smith Galer@sophiasgaler3 May

Incredible - How To Kill A Language is book of the week in the Sunday Times 😭 https://t.co/qSSV4HYApg

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9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views2 367this account972median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.63%this account3.80%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.99%this account1.53%median for 10K–100K

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Median views per post	2 367	972	2.44×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.63%	3.80%	1.48×
Engagement rate	0.99%	1.53%	0.65×

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Likes78.6%6 799 in total

Reposts2.7%232 in total

Replies0.4%31 in total

Quotes0.3%22 in total

Bookmarks18.1%1 562 in total

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