Aaron Astor ✓

@AstorAaron · Gettysburg, PA · joined 16 Jun 2009

Historian of the 19th Century U.S. and Professor at Gettysburg College. Author of Rebels on the Border and Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau

25 215Followers

2 789Following

209 027Posts total

45.8KViews on collected posts

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Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron3 Sep

Pennsylvania Turnpike postcard showing the tunnels between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. The Sideling Hill Tunnel was closed in 1968 and is now a long and dark bike path. https://t.co/IQTT1fedwT 1.8K views · 37 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron3 Sep

Lovely. It’s not like high diesel prices will be passed along in lots of other agricultural and industrial products… 2.2K views · 47 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron3 Sep

Barksdale, Wilcox, Lang and Wright’s CSA brigades crossed this field late on July 2, 1863 - a last push for the Cemetery Ridge line - near the Codori Barn, where storm clouds now hover above. https://t.co/njh1kyXjpY 1.2K views · 33 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron3 Sep

NY Fire Department’s Fire Zouaves - 73rd NY Infantry monument. https://t.co/SWJyh1KJ0R 1.2K views · 22 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron3 Sep

Agreed. "GasBuddyGuy" @GasBuddyGuy is so much more than just a guide to finding the nearest cheap gas station! 1.1K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron3 Sep

We need more Regis DeTrobriand re-enactors. Full name: Philippe Régis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand. He was a brave Franco-American general who had the misfortune of guarding the Wheatfield for Dan Sickles. https://t.co/X1OnBuI7wC 803 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron3 Sep

Fun fact: Since 2012, the University of Massachusetts football team has a record of 26 wins and 134 losses. By contrast, Ohio State University's record over that same period is 165 wins and 26 losses. 1.7K views · 24 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron2 Sep

@AstorAaron I hear that the French education system tends to value oral exams more than the anglophone system. So I get the sense the sense they have some advantage. 79 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron2 Sep

@AstorAaron @IVMiles Let’s take your point one step further. I’m not convinced that at a small college with a cohesive community and real character at-home essays are impossible. I can picture talking with a small class and summoning students’ pride & commitment: make it your own 140 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron2 Sep

@AstorAaron @IVMiles Agreed - freshman enrollment at LMC has broken records for the last 2 years. Partly due to NC’s growth I’m sure but we’ve also leaned into experiential learning, unique location and small size 139 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron2 Sep

Small liberal arts colleges are better positioned for teaching in the world of AI/LLMs than larger universities because of regular interactive, in-person discussions and time for student oral presentations. (In-class writing activities (in blue books) are less awkward too.) 12.3K views · 141 likes · 19 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Aaron Astor ✓@AstorAaron31 Aug

An MIT report found that frontier LLMs are able to "credibly complete" most undergraduate assignments. I'm seeing this as well, and I'm having to redesign most of my assignments as a result. The uncomfortable truth is that it may not be sufficient to "retrofit" many courses 23.2K views · 138 likes · 22 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

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12 постов за последние 90 дней рядом с диапазоном 10K–100K подписчиков. показывается большему числу людей, чем аккаунты того же размера.

Медианные просмотры1 167этот аккаунт924медиана для 10K–100K

Охват, %4.63%этот аккаунт3.62%медиана для 10K–100K

Вовлечённость, %1.83%этот аккаунт1.52%медиана для 10K–100K

Показатель	Этот аккаунт	Медиана для 10K–100K	Отношение
Медианные просмотры на пост	1 167	924	1.26×
Охват (просмотры ÷ подписчики)	4.63%	3.62%	1.28×
Вовлечённость	1.83%	1.52%	1.20×

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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

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Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.80%31 Aug

1.42%2 Sep

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1.62%3 Sep

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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

Likes67.8%462 in total

Reposts7.5%51 in total

Replies6.8%46 in total

Quotes1.6%11 in total

Bookmarks16.3%111 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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