Amarnath Amarasingam

@AmarAmarasingam · Toronto, Canada · joined 26 Aug 2010

Prof @QueensU | Work: Extremist/social movements, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤

54 189Followers

2 909Following

42 318Posts total

13.9KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Amarnath Amarasingam@AmarAmarasingam4 Jul

Craziest game I’ve ever seen. 3.7K views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Amarnath Amarasingam@AmarAmarasingam4 Jun

Stoked to see a fairly substantial excerpt from my book with Stephanie Carvin, published today in @thewalrus. Check it out here: 1.4K views · 9 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Amarnath Amarasingam@AmarAmarasingam4 Jun

Today’s extremist movements are not only more mobilized, they're harder to recognize. Here, writers @AmarAmarasingam and Stephanie Carvin trace how biases against immigration, Islam, and political change helped reshape Canada’s far right. https://t.co/W2nAzcSsLH 2K views · 8 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Amarnath Amarasingam@AmarAmarasingam21 May

The San Diego Islamic Centre shooting was not an isolated act of hate. It was part of a far-right “curriculum of violence,” where attackers study, cite, and try to outdo one another. My new piece for @ConversationCA https://t.co/SADlI4kWlX 2.5K views · 24 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Amarnath Amarasingam@AmarAmarasingam20 May

Spoke to CBC's @ianhanomansing about the San Diego shooting, the perpetrators, and the challenges of regulating the online space. https://t.co/V0XvTvxS4W 1.9K views · 12 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Amarnath Amarasingam@AmarAmarasingam19 May

It's publication day! Mine and @StephanieCarvin's book is now available anywhere books are sold: https://t.co/riGYC2CbZt https://t.co/epmQ4KbK95

2.3K views · 31 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

1 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 706this account993median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.84%this account3.86%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.41%this account1.53%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 706	993	3.73×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.84%	3.86%	1.77×
Engagement rate	0.41%	1.53%	0.27×

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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

2.3K19 May

1.9K20 May

2.5K21 May

2K4 Jun

1.4K

3.7K4 Jul

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.91%19 May

0.77%20 May

1.40%21 May

0.75%4 Jun

1.11%

0.40%4 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.53%.

What the audience does

Likes66.9%99 in total

Reposts26.4%39 in total

Replies1.4%2 in total

Bookmarks5.4%8 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.