Adam Aw Hirsi, PhD ✓

@AwHirsiSO · East Africa · joined 10 Apr 2017

Thinker ¶ Practitioner ¶ Director @ForesightSO ¶ Reads the footnotes before the headlines ¶

141 542Followers

19Following

33 340Posts total

115KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views9 694this account4 270median for 100K–1M

Reach, %6.85%this account1.71%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.73%this account1.42%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	9 694	4 270	2.27×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.85%	1.71%	4.01×
Engagement rate	0.73%	1.42%	0.52×

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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

28.8K14 Oct

28.6K3 Sep

2.2K4 Sep

40.8K

9.7K5 Sep

4.8K

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

0.07%14 Oct

0.79%3 Sep

0.32%4 Sep

0.53%

0.73%5 Sep

1.49%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes63.1%414 in total

Reposts13.6%89 in total

Replies12.7%83 in total

Quotes4.0%26 in total

Bookmarks6.7%44 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.

Latest posts

"Why don't I ever hear South Africans, Nigerians, or Kenyans advocating for Somaliland independence? Why is it only white people?" This is a legitimate question posed by @_hudsonc to @Dibjir. And it is at the heart of why unity of Somalia is the gate to African sovereignty. htt 4.8K views · 54 likes · 5 reposts · 10 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Somalia’s unity isn’t a moral talking point, it’s the actual security logic here. Bosaso proves the point: Washington gets what it needs from partnership with a federal member state, no recognition required. Hargeisa’s usefulness to the US and the West at large was always a 9.7K views · 50 likes · 7 reposts · 12 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

An interesting deep dive into the potential new US military base in Bosaso, Puntland and how US Africom and intel agencies are already using it to coordinate strikes. My question, if this base is really being built and will be as big as suggested, what does the US need with a 40.8K views · 144 likes · 37 reposts · 22 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@ZiaYusufUK, what is truly happening is that you’re embarrassing yourself in real time and globally once more. Sagal was born in Somalia and brought to the UK as a child. Your own parents were born in Sri Lanka and came to the UK in their early thirties. I do not know how your 2.2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

This is crossing into a very dangerous territory. I do not think the decision to initiate this attack was wise. If it is confirmed that foreign drones (Somalia has none) at the behest of @TheVillaSomalia attacked a general’s residence in Dollow, give it less than a year before 28.6K views · 139 likes · 40 reposts · 39 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name." - Confucius 28.8K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 14 Oct 2025 · Open on X →