Basharat Peer

@BasharatPeer · Here and there · joined 30 Mar 2013

Editor, Ideas @Time. Author, Curfewed Night, A Question of Order, Haider. Former @foreignaffairs, @nytopinion, @crisisgroup

59 615Followers

1 955Following

7 829Posts total

141.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 057this account2 259median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.45%this account6.80%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.88%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 057	2 259	0.91×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.45%	6.80%	0.51×
Engagement rate	0.88%	1.52%	0.57×

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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

1.1K21 Aug

2.1K22 Aug

127.7K27 Aug

2.4K29 Aug

7K1 Sep

1.1K2 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.80%21 Aug

0.88%22 Aug

0.71%27 Aug

0.34%29 Aug

2.27%1 Sep

1.36%2 Sep

2.44%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes63.4%727 in total

Reposts23.8%273 in total

Replies6.4%73 in total

Quotes3.8%43 in total

Bookmarks2.6%30 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

@BasharatPeer @NepaliTimes @TIME How Grifters Twist Nepal’s Natural Glacier Avalanche to Blame Fossil Fuels https://t.co/P1y87jfXB4 41 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 ‘Our resilience becomes a quiet abandonment, a way for the rest of the world to admire how well we absorb losses it helped create,’ @sumnima_udas in @TIME https://t.co/W2Rwa5MRj5 1.1K views · 11 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Sonia Awale, the editor of @NepaliTimes on the tragedy in Nepal and its urgent warning for a warming world in @TIME https://t.co/BfQF7sCYHD 7K views · 105 likes · 49 reposts · 4 replies 01 Sep 2026 ‘Tehran’s leaders could consider escalation as a means of breaking the deadlock before Iran’s position deteriorates further,’ @HamidRezaAz in @TIME https://t.co/m44v3B30BE 2.4K views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 How Grifters Twist Nepal’s Natural Glacier Avalanche to Blame Fossil Fuels. Avalanches and earthquakes are relatively common in the Himalaya and recently drove Langtang Lirung’s glacier collapses. For example, on the south-facing side of Langtang Lirung, a 7.8 earthquake caused 127.7K views · 586 likes · 209 reposts · 69 replies 27 Aug 2026 ‘The role of the Secretary-General is perhaps to be both the world’s most prominent event organizer and a sort of political therapist for world leaders,’ @RichardGowan1 and @FortiD of @CrisisGroup in @TIME https://t.co/3B4acsRXmp 2.1K views · 12 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 22 Aug 2026 ‘The waters of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean are full of the remains of those who perished while trying to reach Europe, victims of a system that treats human mobility as a threat to be managed,’ writes Miriyam Aouragh in @TIME https://t.co/cKkTe3oKuv 1.1K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 21 Aug 2026