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Spitalfields Life

@thegentleauthor · Spitalfields · joined 17 Dec 2010

Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London (I am also to be found at @thegentleauthor.bsky.social)

34 139Followers
20 186Following
54 062Posts total
6.5KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

‘In the flesh The Gentle Author is an even better storyteller, a magician of social history who brings the past alive and reanimates the present.’ – Patrick Barkham, The Oldie TICKETS: https://t.co/matFRsQCxu https://t.co/t7Jk6kCJS1
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THE GENTLE AUTHOR'S TOUR OF WHITECHAPEL includes tea & strudel at the Whitechapel Gallery. TICKETS: https://t.co/XtLa2M3JLi https://t.co/WARs6DFryW
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@thegentleauthor Yes, NYC is special in late summer, early fall. Those clear blue skies with clean crisp air belied the horror that befell that day. War of the Worlds, a good phrase with many meanings. 21 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@thegentleauthor #NeverForget🌹 17 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
The Gentle Author was in New York City 25 years ago today: https://t.co/7Zp13gxfKj https://t.co/Fnv8X8BzpQ
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@thegentleauthor What has been demolished? I recall that an oblique view was always possible from Museum Street, albeit at risk of being hit by a cab cutting through. In fact the canted end of the Brutalist sorting office that has now been reclad might have given a slightly bett
October 2015 image from Google Streetview looking north from Museum Street across the junction of New Oxford Street with Bloomsbury Way with the tower of St George's Bloomsbury visible above the lumpish brick mediocrity of Tavistock Chambers.
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Views of the spire of Nicholas Hawksmoor's St George's Bloomsbury revealed by demolition, as seen in the background of Hogarth's Gin Lane. https://t.co/52TxIyOrhJ
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Jewish Soup Kitchen by John Allin, 1973. Next Spitalfields tour is on Saturday 12th September. TICKETS: https://t.co/matFRsQCxu https://t.co/GSLa5NAW31
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Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views882this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %2.58%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.97%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post8829240.95×
Reach (views ÷ followers)2.58%3.62%0.71×
Engagement rate3.97%1.52%2.61×

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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

1.1K10 Sep
2.4K
93
1.1K11 Sep
17
21
1.1K
66613 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.34%10 Sep
6.27%
3.23%
3.76%11 Sep
5.88%
4.76%
4.19%
0.75%13 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes76.5%221 in total
Reposts20.4%59 in total
Replies1.4%4 in total
Bookmarks1.7%5 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.

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