Byzantine Emporia

@byzantinemporia · Land of Punished Regicides · joined 01 Apr 2014

Luxury historical commentary. Read 'Saladin the Strategist': https://t.co/kiWQBy63F2 Other books: https://t.co/rMfJ3koLAO

26 334Followers

333Following

15 202Posts total

145.6KViews on collected posts

Ultimi post

Byzantine Emporia@byzantinemporia7 Sep

This is like a breakfast test for midwits: "Genghis Khan could not have succeeded without X" The replies: "You're saying Genghis Khan succeeded because of X?!" Even people of above-average intelligence struggle to interpret more than a single degree of logical complexity. 6.8K views · 40 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Byzantine Emporia@byzantinemporia21 Aug

An unofficial futures market existed even earlier, by the 1650s - it allowed the daimyo to hedge against poor yields and low rice prices, which in a bad year could wipe them out. It received sanction after decades of wild swings, which threatened discontent by the samurai class.

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Byzantine Emporia@byzantinemporia18 Aug

I was today years old when I learned that Japan had a rice futures market in the 18th century. This is from The Japanese Economy by Takatoshi Ito and Takeo Hoshi, which I just started to read but is great so far. https://t.co/xEUrHWrwLK

23.5K views · 181 likes · 23 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Byzantine Emporia@byzantinemporia3 Aug

This is a great idea, should be the standard BUT must come with a strictly-enforced dress code. 1.4K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Byzantine Emporia@byzantinemporia3 Aug

What kind of discrimination is this?? https://t.co/UJvV7vEtZz

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Byzantine Emporia@byzantinemporia3 Jun

Post-496, the baptism of Clovis: the wedding of the Germanic and the Roman. 2.4K views · 18 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Byzantine Emporia@byzantinemporia24 Jan 2023

'Saladin the Strategist' is finally available in paperback! 379 pages with annotations and index; final updates to the Kindle edition have also been uploaded (for those who have already purchased). I'll post all my Saladin-related threads below... https://t.co/PGLTT6eZUb 97.1K views · 230 likes · 45 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

5 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.

Visualizzazioni mediane6 767questo account922mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %25.70%questo account3.39%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %0.88%questo account1.53%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	6 767	922	7.34×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	25.70%	3.39%	7.58×
Tasso di interazione	0.88%	1.53%	0.57×

Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →

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

97.1K24 Jan

2.4K3 Jun

12.4K3 Aug

1.4K

23.5K18 Aug

2.1K21 Aug

6.8K7 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.29%24 Jan

0.98%3 Jun

1.66%3 Aug

0.35%

0.88%18 Aug

1.25%21 Aug

0.65%7 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.53%.

What the audience does

Likes77.3%686 in total

Reposts8.7%77 in total

Replies3.4%30 in total

Bookmarks10.6%94 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.