Alex Cowan

@alexcowan2

Musicologist @uchicago; formerly @jesuscollegecam; @RadInstitute 22-3. British/American. Writing on music and eugenics. Terribly earnest.

2 143Followers

2 168Following

22 089Posts total

575.8KViews on collected posts

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Alex Cowan@alexcowan226 Apr 2024

@alexcowan2 My master's thesis was about student activism in the 60s and post-Kent State. I argued that the most successful response by a university was allowing open seminars, freely educating students on contemporary issues. Schools that shut down protest and learning are more 4.1K views · 40 likes · 2 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Alex Cowan@alexcowan225 Apr 2024

Nothing makes me believe some otherwise-trite “in defense of the humanities” pablum than seeing students imagining the space of the campus otherwise etc etc in ways like this 11.6K views · 199 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Alex Cowan@alexcowan225 Apr 2024

Really makes you wonder what these universities are so afraid of and it turns out the answer is, on at least one level, education 560K views · 29.2K likes · 4.6K reposts · 29 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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560K25 Apr

11.6K

4.1K26 Apr

Last 3 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

6.04%25 Apr

1.80%

1.17%26 Apr

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

What the audience does

Likes85.1%29 398 in total

Reposts13.3%4 592 in total

Replies0.1%35 in total

Quotes0.1%37 in total

Bookmarks1.4%480 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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