Benjamin Fernandes 🇹🇿 ✓

@Benji_Fernandes · San Francisco, CA · joined 04 Aug 2009

89 475Followers

2 869Following

25 991Posts total

278.4KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

22 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views8 987this account3 598median for 10K–100K

Reach, %10.04%this account11.59%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.71%this account1.38%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	8 987	3 598	2.50×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	10.04%	11.59%	0.87×
Engagement rate	0.71%	1.38%	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

15K3 Sep

12.7K

12K

10.4K

10.1K

9.6K

8.4K

10.7K

17.4K

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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.57%3 Sep

0.53%

0.39%

0.72%

0.71%

0.56%

0.71%

0.64%

0.45%

0.51%

0.62%

1.07%

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.38%.

What the audience does

Likes70.9%3 449 in total

Reposts12.5%607 in total

Replies2.4%118 in total

Quotes0.7%34 in total

Bookmarks13.5%656 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

@Benji_Fernandes @nytimes Kenya has a higher overstay rate tha Tanzania but have no ban. This is purely political. We can blame the US all we want but we all know who the culprit is that is destroying the relationship btn Tanzania and the US. 3.3K views · 29 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Article Link without Paywall: https://t.co/RzlW4q7zTo 7.3K views · 73 likes · 17 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Link to Full Article: https://t.co/I5PkDKUWZL 7.9K views · 70 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Somewhere today another 17-year-old is holding an offer from an American campus. She might build the next great American company. Or she might never board the plane. America was exceptional because it believed in people before anyone else did. It believed in me. Would it 7.7K views · 44 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 WorldRemit and Celtel were built in Britain. Not because Britain is better at innovation. Because Britain let them in. 8K views · 37 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I know writing this may make my own return harder. But silence is exactly what lets a policy like this pass without anyone counting its cost. 17.4K views · 66 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 I have a friend in Tanzania who was admitted to Harvard University this year on scholarship. They can't get a visa, so they can't board the plane. A student turned away today is a company that never gets built, and the jobs that never come with it. https://t.co/OygxjmrpTv 10.7K views · 62 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 "But those countries don't produce founders." here's a quick list: - Nigeria: Calendly ($3B), Global Infrastructure Partners (sold to BlackRock, $12.5B) - Somalia: WorldRemit.($5B) - Sudan: Celtel ($3.4B). 8.4K views · 53 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Here's what actually concerns me. The door that mattered most is the one shut hardest: the student visa. I arrived on one. So did 234 founders of America's billion-dollar companies. Each creates ~1,000 American jobs on average. 9.6K views · 50 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I run have to run NALA over video. We're fine. But fundraising with top VC's and enterprise sales are relationship businesses. Trust is built in the room, over dinner, in the hallway after the meeting. You do not Zoom your way to a deal. Especially when your business involves 10.1K views · 66 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 The government's reason is a statistic: Tanzanians overstay at a rate above 8%. I've crossed that border 17 years in a row. Left on time every single time. A national average is not a person. A blanket ban punishes the compliant for the record of strangers. 10.4K views · 69 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 There's a "national interest" exception. I applied. Building an American-backed company, employing Americans, answering to American investors. Rejected. https://t.co/J0Lq4Srxsk 12K views · 40 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Jan 1, 2026: a proclamation adds Tanzania to the entry ban. The business visa I've held for many years can't be renewed. No new one will be issued. Mine expired July 10. 12.7K views · 60 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 2010: a tiny college in Minnesota gives a 17-year-old a scholarship. At 21, Stanford University does the same. One of the youngest ever admitted to the MBA program on a full scholarship. Years later, I start NALA in Palo Alto. @ycombinator , @Accel, @BessemerVP, @AcrewCapital h 15K views · 78 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 America spent ten years turning a Tanzanian teenager into the founder of an American company. Then it exported him. I wrote about it for the @nytimes today. Thread 🧵 103.1K views · 816 likes · 186 reposts · 44 replies 03 Sep 2026 Watu watakuhukumu. Wengine watakutazama na kupata inspiration. Lakini mwisho wa siku, hakuna hata mmoja wao anayelipa bili zako. Ishi maisha yako, Sali Zaidi, Fanya yako. 10.2K views · 752 likes · 151 reposts · 18 replies 31 Aug 2026 @Benji_Fernandes mimi naamini utajiri ni watu wanaokuzunguka kila siku, wewe wa tech upo na tech wenzako, mlevi na walevi wenziye,malaya na wenziye, tajiri na masikini wapi na wapi? watoto wa kichina wapo kwenye tech area! , watz weng wapo singeli area, unaona mindset zinavyodif 141 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 30 Aug 2026 @Benji_Fernandes It easy to say when things are on your faver 96 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 30 Aug 2026 @Benji_Fernandes Basi duniani kusingekua na maskini 224 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 29 Aug 2026 Ukiwaza negative kila siku, usitegemee maisha yako yawe positive. Kila kitu kinaanzia kwenye akili 💯 16K views · 1.1K likes · 195 reposts · 26 replies 29 Aug 2026 Love it 3.9K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 @Benji_Fernandes Cool app. I use it a lot too. Well done to you and team. 4.2K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 Love those around you. Those who are the hardest to love, need it the most. You don't know what they are going through. God bless you all 🙏🏻 0 views · 2.6K likes · 455 reposts · 75 replies 13 Aug 2017