The year isn't over yet, but I am guessing that I may not tweet anything very significant in its remaining eleven days.
Here are my top tweets of 2020 in all the various metrics offered by Twitter, plus where the top tweet(s) didn’t have original content from me I’ve drilled down for the top tweet in that category that does have original content, plus one that isn’t actually top in any one category but has the best aggregate score of them all.
Most permalink clicks (I had completely forgotten even posting this one):
I like this one.https://t.co/obcAJ7PaPz
— (@nwbrux) April 22, 2020
Most hashtag clicks (I rarely use hashtags; I posted this as the second last episode of this year’s Doctor Who was on air, and I guess a lot of people were surfing the conversation):
In the last 56 years and three months, not a single second of #DoctorWho on television has been set in Ireland.
Just saying.
— (@nwbrux) February 23, 2020
Second most impressions (not quite sure why this day of all days should get the attention, I have been tweeting the numbers daily since April):
Total Belgian COVID-19 cases in hospital now 4050, total in ICU 797 – both below 28 March levels (4089/867), but still above 27 March (3650/789). 525 new cases (compare 536 on 18 March, first full day of lockdown).
Moving slowly in the right direction.https://t.co/ZY0emGnTDT
— (@nwbrux) April 29, 2020
Second highest number of replies (deliberately designed to get lots of replies):
US presidential trivia: who was the only person to have been both the oldest living former Vice-President, *and* the oldest living former President, but *not* at the same time?
— (@nwbrux) June 12, 2020
Third highest retweets (highest for original content, and makes an important point about not signal boosting the worst):
Everyone, ignore the Mail on Sunday. I know it makes you angry. But channel your energy into something better. All you are doing is delivering them even more clicks that will further help their business model.
— (@nwbrux) March 29, 2020
Most app opens (a video I did many years ago sadly became relevant):
RIP – he got killed off in all three stories before even meeting the Doctor.https://t.co/l0PSU0tRzL
— (@nwbrux) November 6, 2020
Highest engagement rate and most URL clicks (surprising, I didn’t think it was that exciting a topic):
Researchers Think They Solved the Mystery of America's 'Lost Colony' https://t.co/r91875QvO8 Less dramatic than many people thought – or wanted to think?
— (@nwbrux) August 19, 2020
Most URL clicks, second highest detail expands (on an issue where I am possibly the most visible commentator out there, this was the biggest news story of the year):
Wow, the courts just quashed the recommended new constituency boundaries for Northern Ireland. Doesn't matter in practice; they were never going to be implemented. But fairly dramatic stuff in terms of how the Boundary Commission should conduct itself. https://t.co/hFcAlNddUA
— (@nwbrux) June 4, 2020
Most replies and user profile clicks (grim stuff as things started to get bad):
Quarantine strikes close to home for us. The foundation where our two girls live told us today that we cannot visit them until 3 April (at least). Of course, I know that it's for the general good. But it hurts.
Last time all five of us were together was on Christmas Day. pic.twitter.com/kdseuiKNPU
— (@nwbrux) March 13, 2020
Second most engagements, likes, media views and media engagements (played for laughs, though really, sometimes people who spend money promoting their tweets are just throwing it away):
Blocked. pic.twitter.com/QfhD9SgBIQ
— (@nwbrux) November 17, 2020
Second highest retweets (also not original content; grim laughs, if any):
— (@nwbrux) March 11, 2020
Most impressions, most retweets, most likes, most detail expands, most media views, most media engagements (sadly not my original content; more grim laughs, if any).
— (@nwbrux) November 20, 2020
Top aggregate score across all categories (though not actually top in any of them, entirely thanks to being retweeted by Georgia Tennant, the author’s daughter):
Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs, by Peter Davison
I've read a lot of celebrity memoirs, including Doctor Who memoirs, by now, and this really is one of the most entertaining of them. #nwbookshttps://t.co/oWlmCvaeLihttps://t.co/i8D3VS1F26 pic.twitter.com/Ci4VvPXw92
— (@nwbrux) October 24, 2020
Facebook and others coming soon.
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