Alex Crawford
@AlexCrawfordSky · joined 30 Oct 2009
Travelling foreign correspondent based in Istanbul. Sky News Special Correspondent. Wrote Colonel Gadaffi's Hat in ptsd haze.
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Human rights groups like Amnesty Turkey which found their social media accounts blocked as part of the authorities’ crackdown on LGBTI orgs, activists and clubs have responded by defiantly demanding rights for all - and creating new accounts @amnestyTR
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This is such moving verse - dripping with suffering and heartache about the plight of women and girls in Afghanistan - from a leading female political figure of the ‘Parliament in exile’, @Mariamistan ‘I hope I never have a daughter’
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There are mounting calls and condemnation of the crackdown on LGBTI groups and activists in Turkey with @CommissionerHR calling for the release of those detained. Turkish authorities maintain the actions are to combat ‘obscenity’ and ‘preserve family values’. But ‘references to
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Concerned by reports of a series of arrests, raids and blocking of websites and social media accounts targeting LGBTI civil society in #Türkiye.
Advocacy for equality and non-discrimination is protected under the #ECHR. References to "family values" or “protection of children”
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@AlexCrawfordSky @ebabahan Hahaha 🤣
No one supports islamic barbarians more than lgbt people.
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@AlexCrawfordSky There'll be no protests on western University campuses because no Jews were involved
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@AlexCrawfordSky Perfect news. Good things happening. So happy to hear these disgusting perverts will not be so free in this country anymore.
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Turkish police have carried out a series of raids overnight on LGBTI clubs, organisations and homes of activists in what appears to be a widespread crackdown in line with Pres Erdogan’s ‘family vision’. 162 suspects, 9 associations, and 13 businesses across 15 provinces are being
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İstanbul merkezli "Ailem Güvende" operasyonunda 26 şüpheli yakalandı
— Operasyonda 38 adres ile İstanbul'daki 10 işletme ve 6 LGBTİ+ derneğinde arama yapıldı
— İstanbul Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı koordinesinde yürütülen soruşturma kapsamında İstanbul merkezli düzenlenen "Ailem htt
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‘No family of a murder victim should have had to go through what they have gone through – it was an outrage that it was left to them to campaign for justice, for the legislation needed to protect reporters like their mum…’ @StephenGrey https://t.co/Ro8auEit5l
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i hope i never have a daughter.
not because
i would not love her,
but because
i am afghan
and i know what the world
does to our girls.
it calls them honor
before it calls them human.
closes their schools,
silences their voices,
then praises them
for surviving.
they call us h
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@AlexCrawfordSky @cathiedunn @GLAN_LAW @SkyNews @_BvdM @McGarwen Keir Stamer is bending over backwards to keep on the right side of the Israeli Government I fail to understand why
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@AlexCrawfordSky @ryangrim @GLAN_LAW @SkyNews @_BvdM @McGarwen Yes where are they? How long is the list of crimes against humanity?
@BBCNews @ABCWorldNews @cnni @WSJ @nytimes https://t.co/rsrYc20Uh2
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@AlexCrawfordSky @ALabour4Justice @GLAN_LAW @SkyNews @_BvdM @McGarwen The most important thing is that Keir Starmer supports the IDF. And wants to arrest every decent person who absolutely hates and abhors the depraved IDF terrorists.
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Two women disappear after last being seen with Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Where are they? And what happened to them? We ask is this Israeli policy? And how many more Palestinians have disappeared? With @GLAN_LAW INVESTIGATORS AND @SkyNews Data and Forensics @_BvdM @McGarwen
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A mother and daughter from Gaza were last pictured blindfolded in the back of an Israeli military vehicle in December 2023. @AlexCrawfordSky and Sky's Data and Forensics team have traced their last known movements. https://t.co/sU5iUVdUyM
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@AlexCrawfordSky @faisalislam @annabotting @julieetchitv @SkyNews Oof
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@AlexCrawfordSky @annabotting @julieetchitv @SkyNews Love it! Enjoy xxx
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Against accounts of the same size
11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views8 371this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %5.77%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.44%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 8 371 | 5 983 | 1.40× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 5.77% | 1.49% | 3.88× |
| Engagement rate | 1.44% | 0.93% | 1.55× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
1.6K6 May
1.5K
1.4K
10.4K11 Sep
8.4K12 Sep
116.8K13 Sep
39.9K
673
376
581
20.8K15 Sep
9.8K
5.2K
3.4K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
5.88%6 May
3.84%
3.54%
1.44%11 Sep
1.39%12 Sep
0.30%13 Sep
1.68%
0.59%
0.53%
0.34%
2.13%15 Sep
1.45%
1.74%
1.69%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes58.5%10 642 in total
Reposts31.8%5 783 in total
Replies2.6%480 in total
Quotes1.6%288 in total
Bookmarks5.5%1 004 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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