Antigone Journal ✓

@AntigoneJournal · Thebes · joined 14 Nov 2020

An open forum for Classics—Ancient Greece, Rome, and their influence. Explore over 500 open-access articles on our website. **We pay £100-200 for new writing**

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Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal11 Sep

The man who is generally regarded as the most influential figure of the second millennium AD, in terms of how much he changed the western world as we know it, is now buried in an unknown and unknowable location: there is no place to pay homage to Gutenberg and the printing press. 7.4K views · 302 likes · 14 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal10 Sep

And this month @JSTOR has reduced its monthly allowance of free articles by 90%, from 100 to 10. Why? Meanwhile, the local library has got rid of they physical runs of almost every journal "because they're on JStor anyway". So spend your rationed curiosity wisely, dear reader.... 59.6K views · 2.2K likes · 512 reposts · 42 replies Open on X →

Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal9 Sep

If you just want to read Latin, and don't care how, you can occasionally buy the complete works of the 20 major authors of Latin poetry for £10. https://t.co/elxD08T8A3 10.5K views · 141 likes · 5 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal9 Sep

Any help with the first line here? It's an inscription that would typically give the owner's name there. But I think it says "... Fund Book", which would suggest that this was a book purchased for Trinity from some fund. But, if so, it's odd to write that, and with TCO appended.

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Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal2 Sep

At 50k followers we will share the best kept secret in buying beautiful books. 10.7K views · 195 likes · 7 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal26 Aug

@AntigoneJournal Anna's Archive has an open $200,000 bounty for anyone who "liberates" Google Books, so I think the best hope is some unprecedented security hole at Google or corrupt insider. 18.3K views · 487 likes · 18 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal26 Aug

@AntigoneJournal We must 1) guard Internet Archive with our lives and 2) download as much as possible from them. But Internet Archive's search feature is a mess. 4.1K views · 120 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal26 Aug

@AntigoneJournal I have heard so many librarians across so many libraries say "we don't have a physical copy any more but you can easily find it on Google Books". If you point out it isn't there, "it should be, it's why we felt comfortable removing it, we needed space". [Mind, no 7.9K views · 226 likes · 16 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal25 Aug

Google Books is becoming a desert. Its regress is real: the knowledge we were assured was both safely stored and freely available, which led libraries and schools to get rid of their books, has retreated into the shadows. The internet of 2026 knows less than the internet of 2010. 656.4K views · 9.7K likes · 2.3K reposts · 106 replies Open on X →

Antigone Journal ✓@AntigoneJournal3 Nov 2024

Why is Google Books removing access to out-of-copyright books that it once hosted as open access? There is a good chance that the mass-deaccession policy of libraries, on the ground that "it's available for free online", will be one of the most stupid acts of modern curatorship. 1.3M views · 9.4K likes · 1.6K reposts · 158 replies Open on X →

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9 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé bien au-delà de son propre public, et ce public réagit.

Vues médianes10 476ce compte949médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %28.26%ce compte3.31%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.78%ce compte1.88%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	10 476	949	11.0×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	28.26%	3.31%	8.54×
Taux d'engagement	2.78%	1.88%	1.48×

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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

1.3M3 Nov

656.4K25 Aug

7.9K26 Aug

4.1K

18.3K

10.7K2 Sep

6.7K9 Sep

10.5K

59.6K10 Sep

7.4K11 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.88%3 Nov

1.83%25 Aug

3.08%26 Aug

3.02%

2.78%

1.94%2 Sep

0.39%9 Sep

1.46%

4.58%10 Sep

4.40%11 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.88%.

What the audience does

Likes77.6%22 714 in total

Reposts15.1%4 429 in total

Replies1.2%342 in total

Bookmarks6.1%1 794 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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