Babak Vahdad ✓

@BabakVahdad · joined 13 Dec 2012

Independent researcher/OSINT Analyst Iran,AfPak/Persian Gulf تحليل گر ايران و خاورميانه All personal opinions. RT is not endorsement

18 412Followers

4 768Following

41 986Posts total

266.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Babak Vahdad ✓@BabakVahdad5 Sep

In a decade, from “freeze for freeze” to “tanker for tanker”. What’s next? #Iran 2.7K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Babak Vahdad ✓@BabakVahdad5 Sep

Just read an interesting analysis published by IRGC-linked Javan, titled “The Opportunities of Standing with the East”. Main points: - It argues that the war may have produced a strategic shift in Iran’s foreign-policy debate. - According to Javan, “Looking East” is no longer 6.8K views · 52 likes · 17 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Babak Vahdad ✓@BabakVahdad4 Sep

IRGC-linked platform: “The issue with Hormuz is no longer whether a ship can pass through, but with what probability, at what cost, and with what degree of certainty it can do so.” #Iran 3.5K views · 38 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Babak Vahdad ✓@BabakVahdad4 Sep

🧵#Iran 1/2. Mohammad Saleh Jokar, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Internal Affairs and Councils Committee, has announced that Iran’s next municipal and local council elections will be held on April 30, 2027. - Though they are local elections, one should consider that, if 2.9K views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Babak Vahdad ✓@BabakVahdad11 Mar

My comments in Newsweek on Iran’s succession debate. Article by Tom O’Connor. #Iran #Iranwar https://t.co/i65FLowvKT 250.7K views · 47 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views3 197this account1 041median for 10K–100K

Reach, %17.36%this account3.61%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.82%this account1.70%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 197	1 041	3.07×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	17.36%	3.61%	4.81×
Engagement rate	0.82%	1.70%	0.49×

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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

250.7K11 Mar

2.9K4 Sep

3.5K

6.8K5 Sep

2.7K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.02%11 Mar

0.48%4 Sep

1.31%

1.06%5 Sep

0.59%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.70%.

What the audience does

Likes61.9%164 in total

Reposts14.0%37 in total

Replies1.5%4 in total

Quotes0.4%1 in total

Bookmarks22.3%59 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.