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mary beard

@wmarybeard · joined 24 Dec 2010

Classicist (thanks to George for the pic)

293 226Followers
1 158Following
62 447Posts total
30.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views2 724this account12 273median for 100K–1M
Reach, %0.93%this account3.89%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %2.24%this account1.25%median for 100K–1M
MetricThis accountMedian for 100K–1MRatio
Median views per post2 72412 2730.22×
Reach (views ÷ followers)0.93%3.89%0.24×
Engagement rate2.24%1.25%1.79×

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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

7.2K3 Sep
6.6K
10.7K
85
2.7K
28
2.8K
13
2

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.60%3 Sep
2.29%
1.29%
1.18%
2.24%
3.57%
3.64%
7.69%
0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.25%.

What the audience does

Likes80.1%480 in total
Reposts12.7%76 in total
Replies2.2%13 in total
Quotes0.2%1 in total
Bookmarks4.8%29 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

@wmarybeard a new discovery for me, wonderful 2 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @wmarybeard Just listened to it and thought it was very interesting / informative. Learned a lot that I was previously unaware of. 👏👏 13 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Breaking news. After Exploring the Odyssey (aka Odyssey Book Club for us veterans) we are going to be exploring Virgil's Aeneid. We have tragedy and Herodotus very much in mind (don't worry!)... but the next big book is Aeneid @instantclassicspod https://t.co/4rWDwxy8M0 2.8K views · 79 likes · 20 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 @wmarybeard Or as Kenneth Williams said, "they've all got it in for me" https://t.co/gUYaFmLhTi 28 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 “One of 16 Vestal Virgins who were leaving for the coast” it was Procul Harum’s “whiter shade of pale” that first introduced me to the Roman Vestals. I’ve learned a few things about them since. See here on Instant Classics https://t.co/STu9mYV7gX 2.7K views · 56 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @wmarybeard Mary, your post has come through blank on my end, not a word or image in sight. Do repost, keen to read it. 85 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Ever wonder what the Roman Vestal Virgins got up to? What they did all day? What was in their temple (there's a surprise!)? Plus in this episode of Instant Classics we try to give a glimpse of how there are new things to say about these very old things https://t.co/4uoNuQzp4H 10.7K views · 121 likes · 16 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I'm really looking forward to talking in Dublin on 15 October, "More Secret Histories of Ancient Rome". I'll be talking about some strange cold cases from the Roman world, and decoding some intriguing messages we can still read in Roman graffiti, and more: https://t.co/MIsErJRr6y 6.6K views · 124 likes · 23 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 It was in front of the Vestal Virgins that K Williams (as Caesar) delivered the immortal lines “infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it infamy”. But who WERE the Virgins,what did they do and (I’m afraid) how virginal? Find out here! https://t.co/STu9mYV7gX 7.2K views · 99 likes · 12 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026

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