Bente Scheller @bentescheller.bsky.social

@BenteScheller · Berlin · joined 29 May 2012

Specializes in Foreign & Security Policy, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan. Author of The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game. FP under the Assads. Tweets my own.

10 863Followers

5 269Following

43 280Posts total

76.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views846this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.79%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.30%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	846	2 578	0.33×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.79%	7.77%	1.00×
Engagement rate	1.30%	1.47%	0.88×

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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

70K7 Dec

1.4K24 Aug

54727 Aug

2.8K

84629 Aug

443

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

1.69%7 Dec

5.92%24 Aug

2.38%27 Aug

0.67%

1.30%29 Aug

0.45%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes68.7%934 in total

Reposts18.7%254 in total

Replies7.7%105 in total

Quotes1.4%19 in total

Bookmarks3.5%47 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

#NotATarget 443 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 29 Aug 2026 #Ukraine — Health System & War and Health •WHO confirmed 3,205 attacks on Ukraine's healthcare system since Russia's full-scale invasion — the count updated after fresh overnight strikes. Medical supplies meant for hundreds of thousands of people were destroyed in attacks on 846 views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 29 Aug 2026 Mazloum Abdi wird präsidentieller Berater für kurdische Fragen, Elham Ahmed geht ins Parlament, die Männer (!) der #SDF integrien sich in die syrische Armee. Darüber, was das bedeutet, habe ich mit dem ORF gesprochen. #Syrien #Kurden https://t.co/o9NDTU0TcL 2.8K views · 15 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 Could #Syria become the focus of an Israeli-Turkish conflict? I spoke to DW, Alona with @HaidHaid22 and Marcus Schneider. #Israel #Turkey https://t.co/HETcR7HEWP 547 views · 7 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 Sehenswert: 25.08. #Berlin: Gaza - Doctors under attack. Krankenhäuser unterliegen völkerrechtlich besonderem Schutz. Diese Recherche zeigt, wie in #Gaza medizinisches Personal und Einrichtungen völkerrechtswidrig ins Visier genommen wurden. https://t.co/NYSLk6rvEL 1.4K views · 51 likes · 25 reposts · 7 replies 24 Aug 2026 I am so full of admiration for #Syria's people. So much courage. After a devastating campaign of barrel bombs forced disappearance, starvation, bombarding of hospitals, use of chemical weapons, staying determined to take their fate into their own hands ❤️ You are an inspiration! 70K views · 854 likes · 219 reposts · 94 replies 07 Dec 2024