Jonathan Goldsbie

@goldsbie · Toronto · joined 13 Mar 2009

William Southam Journalism Fellow at @MasseyCollege (and as such, on leave from my usual job at @Canadaland). On Bluesky these days.

32 321Followers

654Following

76 754Posts total

52.9KViews on collected posts

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Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie10 Oct 2024

https://t.co/w0HYkisSKu 4.3K views · 14 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie30 Nov 2023

(Anyway, follow me there if you're up for more than one post every couple months.) 4.2K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie30 Nov 2023

(I actually meant to post this to the other app. Oh well.) 5.4K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie30 Nov 2023

@goldsbie I've seen this vehicle at every Palestinian event I've attended 386 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie30 Nov 2023

The cameras on Toronto Police surveillance vehicles are much more conspicuous than they used to be. Here's one on the west side of Bay, south of Bloor, to monitor the "Jews Say: Postering Indigo is Not Antisemitism" press conference: https://t.co/UDvWP8s43g

10.7K views · 34 likes · 10 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie10 Oct 2023

It's not that bluesky is superior to Twitter. But it's psychologically preferable to be in a place that will only ever get better, instead of one that's constantly getting worse. https://t.co/LO0TZB06hc 5.4K views · 25 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie17 Aug 2023

I mean, we've *all* heard of Bruce Willis. How many of us have heard of Yellowknife? https://t.co/4XS6EYPr1t

6K views · 30 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jonathan Goldsbie@goldsbie1 Jul 2023

Half of you will know *exactly* what show this is, and the other half would not be able to guess if given 10 tries: https://t.co/xXlqy1q4Oe

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16.5K views · 43 likes · 6 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

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

16.5K1 Jul

6K17 Aug

5.4K10 Oct

10.7K30 Nov

386

5.4K

4.2K

4.3K10 Oct

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.34%1 Jul

0.60%17 Aug

0.57%10 Oct

0.47%30 Nov

0.52%

0.20%

0.05%

0.46%10 Oct

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

What the audience does

Likes72.6%159 in total

Reposts12.3%27 in total

Replies7.3%16 in total

Quotes2.7%6 in total

Bookmarks5.0%11 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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