Bright Simons

@BBSimons · joined 23 May 2010

Thinker | Provocateur

143 688Followers

12Following

15 886Posts total

290.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views26 135this account5 930median for 100K–1M

Reach, %18.19%this account2.48%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.71%this account1.41%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	26 135	5 930	4.41×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	18.19%	2.48%	7.33×
Engagement rate	0.71%	1.41%	0.51×

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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

102.2K7 Mar

814

330

2298 Mar

51.7K9 Jun

3.1K

32310 Jun

47.5K2 Sep

42.7K

26.1K

15.4K3 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.40%7 Mar

0.49%

0.30%

1.31%8 Mar

0.66%9 Jun

0.71%

0.62%10 Jun

0.94%2 Sep

0.77%

0.40%

2.07%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes52.1%1 311 in total

Reposts16.0%403 in total

Replies8.2%206 in total

Quotes2.3%59 in total

Bookmarks21.4%538 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

*Policy Bites from the News Reel* Analyst Caleb Ziblim at Ghanaian media giant, Multimedia, says Ghanaian Members of Parliament (MPs) have been given a 100% pay hike. Their base salary has thus jumped from GHS 30,000 to GHS 60,000. When millennial Shatta Wale heard that https: 15.4K views · 205 likes · 98 reposts · 10 replies 03 Sep 2026 Did Uber have the last word, or Nigerian drivers did? PS: Uber leaves Nigeria after 12 years of learning experiences. 👇 26.1K views · 82 likes · 17 reposts · 5 replies 02 Sep 2026 *Policy bites from the News Reel* GRA Customs boss says a normal person would normally have one phone. It follows then that a normal traveller should have no more than two phones. One for the man, and a gift for the wife. Anything more must be taxed as commercial. Gen Zees h 42.7K views · 201 likes · 38 reposts · 73 replies 02 Sep 2026 Have politicians scared journalists away from aggressively covering national affairs? How come whatever prompted such a major move escaped the media until this announcement and even now no filla? https://t.co/mlGTpPkEbY https://t.co/D2ib3ZTm8H 47.5K views · 299 likes · 66 reposts · 71 replies 02 Sep 2026 @BBSimons The Akans cleverly puts too much Aniteɛ in context by declaring : ‘Woma wani te bebree a woma apɔnkye akye’ Basically warning about the negative consequences of too much aniteɛ. It’s always quite an intellectual joy reading your post 323 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 10 Jun 2026 https://t.co/TJzKPlNjTz 3.1K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 09 Jun 2026 Famous funnyman, Trevor Noah, just shared that old story about how Uber got its fingers burnt in Nigeria. It showed up & started dishing out fat bonuses to drivers per ride to boost uptake. At some point it started even giving bonuses to riders as well. Before long, drivers 51.7K views · 232 likes · 83 reposts · 15 replies 09 Jun 2026 @BBSimons @SFAjayi A brilliant video essay 👏👏👏 Nigeria though is more Katanomic than the author suspects. Since 1999, “Nigerians unseated” an incumbent, only once and that was very uncharacteristic. It took everyone by surprise. Nigeria lacks political accountability, to start wi 229 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 08 Mar 2026 @BBSimons Great attempt, Mr. Simons! Waiting for subsequent editions WITH your voice…. 330 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 07 Mar 2026 @BBSimons Great idea, but I suggest you add real projects or examples to the animation to make it feel more realistic and grounded. You can perhaps use your voice for the narration and explore TikTok too because they are alot of youth there who follow governance issues. 814 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 07 Mar 2026 For a few years now, a group of us have tried to explain that the biggest challenge in African democracies like Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya is not really the POLITICS. The real mess is in POLICY. We call this KATANOMICS. But we have done most of our explaining using essays. 102.2K views · 263 likes · 100 reposts · 30 replies 07 Mar 2026