Mac William Bishop

@MacWBishop · Out and about · joined 25 Jan 2011

Foreign correspondent. Contributing writer, Rolling Stone. Former NYT, FT & Jane’s Defence Weekly. Int’l affairs, conflict & security. Marine infantry veteran.

18 606Followers

6 237Following

22 382Posts total

43.8KViews on collected posts

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Mac William Bishop@MacWBishop22 Sep

https://t.co/sPG1w26xro

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Mac William Bishop@MacWBishop21 Sep

"We have entered the Great Interregnum... the liminal space between the American Century and whatever comes next. We cannot say with certainty what guiding power or idea will order the world over the next century. But we can be certain that chaos will precede it." https://t.co/qt

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Mac William Bishop@MacWBishop21 Sep

In 1997 I was at Camp Pendleton when a strange object appeared in the sky, a glowing green inverted comet, as we left the Chow Hall. All the Marines stopped and stared until a sergeant walked over and said: “Y’all act like you e never seen a UFO before. GET BACK IN FORMATION.” 41.3K views · 328 likes · 13 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Mac William Bishop@MacWBishop20 Sep

Jean Phil is the one true king https://t.co/lARCcn6aYU

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Mac William Bishop@MacWBishop1 Jul 2020

There’s a story which may well be apocryphal: at an art exhibition in the 1880s the Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin took General Helmuth von Moltke (the elder) on a tour of the gallery. There he led the general in front of his painting, “The Apotheosis of War,” (1871). https

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Face aux comptes de taille comparable

4 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé à plus de monde que les comptes de taille comparable.

Vues médianes1 067ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %5.73%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.36%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	1 067	924	1.15×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	5.73%	3.62%	1.58×
Taux d'engagement	1.36%	1.52%	0.89×

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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

1.4K20 Sep

41.3K21 Sep

694

42022 Sep

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.28%20 Sep

0.84%21 Sep

1.87%

1.90%22 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes81.7%348 in total

Reposts3.5%15 in total

Replies1.9%8 in total

Bookmarks12.9%55 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.