David Simon ✓

@AoDespair · Baltimore, MD · joined 05 Aug 2012

Author, journalist and TV writer/producer. Angriest Man in Television is faint praise indeed.

281 859Followers

621Following

116 765Posts total

2.8MViews on collected posts

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David Simon ✓@AoDespair7 Jan 2025

You racist mutt. Ed Burns, the co-creator of the television narrative, was the lead investigator on the Title III cases that encountered all of the counter-surveillance and organizational depth inherent in the Baltimore drug game. We used the real. 1.5M views · 24.8K likes · 2.2K reposts · 114 replies Open on X →

David Simon ✓@AoDespair19 Nov 2024

https://t.co/cdyho8bKOK Follow me here. The account here will remain dormant due to the present management of the site. 72.6K views · 441 likes · 36 reposts · 54 replies Open on X →

David Simon ✓@AoDespair15 Nov 2024

This thread. If you require any further explanation for why this account is going dormant and why this platform is no longer tenable, read on. And then join the rest of us at Bluesky. 73.9K views · 170 likes · 35 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

David Simon ✓@AoDespair14 Nov 2024

If you are following me to the wild blue yonder, be advised that the following rules are to be enforced at the new platform: Address me as "bro" or "dude"? Utterly blocked. Make a Baltimore joke while not from Baltimore. Gone. Misuse the word "evacuate." Dead. "Rowhouse" as 38K views · 125 likes · 18 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

David Simon ✓@AoDespair31 Oct 2023

Time for bed and I've wasted a day arguing with seemingly every useless, part-of-the-problem, I-know-half-of-this-story shitmonger on this hellscape of a platform, and by that I mean every mook who thinks you can rationalize the barbarism of Hamas, or every scrote who thinks... 1.1M views · 3.2K likes · 517 reposts · 216 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.

Views per post

1.1M31 Oct

38K14 Nov

73.9K15 Nov

72.6K19 Nov

1.5M7 Jan

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

0.36%31 Oct

0.41%14 Nov

0.29%15 Nov

0.73%19 Nov

1.79%7 Jan

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

What the audience does

Likes85.0%28 716 in total

Reposts8.2%2 770 in total

Replies1.2%411 in total

Bookmarks5.6%1 906 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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