Ben Lowry ✓

@BenLowry2 · Belfast · joined 14 Feb 2012

Edited the News Letter, the world's oldest continuously published daily English language newspaper. All views expressed are my own

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Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry24 Sep

It's said that there's already been a decade of expert NHS reviews finding the same. It's far worse: I was a young reporter when the much respected Maurice Hayes reported 25yrs ago. Ten yrs later, in 2011, I did a news series on a political failure to act! https://t.co/GN3MBvSkuB 2.5K views · 48 likes · 13 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry22 Sep

Despite the huge fuss about Burnham rightly saying a border poll is off the table (why must he qualify that with 'for now'?), I anticipate no fuss about this. But while Minister McEntee slightly qualifies her prediction with saying 'think,' noone can know if there will be a poll. 11.8K views · 49 likes · 10 reposts · 33 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry22 Sep

Irish minister says there ‘will be a border poll’ on united Ireland in future https://t.co/ZlWH22rX32 20.4K views · 55 likes · 15 reposts · 55 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry22 Sep

Worse than that. The spineless UK reached a recent defence understanding with the Republic yet didn't ask for a penny from a state which many Irish nationalists boast is richer per capita than UK, yet spends almost nothing on its defence. It is also suing the UK on legacy 20.3K views · 238 likes · 50 reposts · 94 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry21 Sep

@IrelandEmbGB The United Kingdom has just sent warships to protect Ireland from attack and you still insist on misnaming us? Childish petulance. 46.9K views · 440 likes · 18 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry224 Aug

A depressing post from an influential historian. One of the few recent advances for the United Kingdom, the very existence of which is in threat both here (I write from Northern Ireland, the subject of Dominic's latest podcast) and in Scotland, to a lesser extent Wales, is the 68.5K views · 94 likes · 6 reposts · 32 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry210 Jul 2023

@BenLowry2 The original founders would be turning in their graves at the sectarian rag it’s become. 873 views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry210 Jul 2023

No other English language paper had ever done such a daily feature because no other such paper was old enough to do it... ! See within my article above a link to how you can subscribe and support our journalism and keep such a newspaper thriving in the 21st century. Thank you 3/3 2.8K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry210 Jul 2023

I feel privileged to edit this venerable title and, as I write in this article about our longevity, a thing I've relish from my 27 years working on papers was compiling a daily On This Day 280 years ago column in 2018/19 (reporting what happened exactly 280 yrs prior 1738/39) 2/3 3K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Lowry ✓@BenLowry210 Jul 2023

We're the world's oldest daily, albeit English language. An older German paper has sadly ended its print edition to be just digital but I get little pleasure at our move towards oldest of all because their change reflects challenges for the industry 1/3 https://t.co/6RbkZ7pXv8 129.1K views · 105 likes · 14 reposts · 60 replies Open on X →

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Interazione, %0.93%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K

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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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0.20%24 Aug

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

What the audience does

Likes67.3%1 071 in total

Reposts8.0%128 in total

Replies21.0%334 in total

Quotes1.6%25 in total

Bookmarks2.1%34 in total

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