Patricia M Thornton

@PM_Thornton · Oxford, UK · joined 16 Jul 2016

Professor in the Politics of #China at @Politics_Oxford, @ox_chinacentre, @MertonCollege @BACS_China Council member https://t.co/OFBGH2qRJ1

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490Following

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7KViews on collected posts

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Patricia M Thornton@PM_Thornton7 Jul

A koan: There was a collective study session of #China's Central Military Commission yesterday to 学习 XJP's speech at the anniversary of the CCP founding. Atm, the CMC has only two members: 张升民 and 习近平. Did XJP attend? Did Zhang study on his own? https://t.co/Qye8VgdS8X https://t

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Patricia M Thornton@PM_Thornton4 Jun

#China's "one-child regime was not a simple high-modernist failure: it was an intrusive, brutal, and, in many respects, effective project of social engineering that sowed the seeds of its own demise." My latest, Why Xi's Pro-Natalist Turn is Failing https://t.co/psPljxJzJ3 1.5K views · 17 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Patricia M Thornton@PM_Thornton8 May

The brilliant Olivia Cheung on Ideological Governance in #China? Xi Jinping’s Uphill Battle Against Indiscipline https://t.co/8hgezoibVh 2.5K views · 23 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Patricia M Thornton@PM_Thornton9 Feb

NYT's David Pierson: #JimmyLai’s 20-Year Sentence Follows Beijing’s Playbook on Dissent The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how #HongKong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity. #香港 https://t.co/OPcoIUDiiU 791 views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Patricia M Thornton@PM_Thornton1 Jan

The Guardian: Xi Jinping vows to reunify #China & #Taiwan in New Year’s Eve speech Reunification ‘is unstoppable’, Xi says, a day after the conclusion of intense military drills #台灣 https://t.co/UF5jagmub1 1.2K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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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.

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1.2K1 Jan

7919 Feb

2.5K8 May

1.5K4 Jun

1K7 Jul

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.26%1 Jan

1.14%9 Feb

1.26%8 May

1.30%4 Jun

0.49%7 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes50.5%51 in total

Reposts10.9%11 in total

Replies4.0%4 in total

Quotes2.0%2 in total

Bookmarks32.7%33 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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