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Gareth van Onselen

@GvanOnselen · Johannesburg, South Africa · joined 13 Jan 2011

Liberal. Humanist. Author. Editor: @insidepols @quotesanc and @EFFRevolution

49 733Followers
113Following
22 134Posts total
27.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

It must be so painful for those people who hate everything about SA, all the time, every day, nothing and no one ever good enough, to have to join in the praise for the Boks, and acknowledge how good they were. I can almost see them, tweeting with gritted teeth. Hilarious. 3.9K views · 101 likes · 6 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →
@GvanOnselen Thats being deliberately obtuse. I hold no brief for the guy but its public knowledge he recently underwent a surgical procedure. Turning his absence into some cheap political conspiracy is in exceptionally bad taste. But hey 🤷🏾‍♂️ 286 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@GvanOnselen Beware the silent fiend who is surrounded by the most powerful inner circle of rogues not yet at the Matlanga Commission 539 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@GvanOnselen Have you checked whether he was ill? I hold no brief for him. 702 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Breaking: Political dictator congratulates football dictator. 3.1K views · 47 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →
Always helpful in politics to think about the dog that doesn’t bark. Paul Mashatile, for example, has quietly vanished from the public eye. Suspect he doesn’t want anything to do with this campaign. 8.9K views · 115 likes · 15 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →
I call this the law of inverse political wisdom, where supporters of parties that don’t know how to win votes, tell parties that do, how to win votes. It is ubiquitous. 2.7K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Twitter Rule #65: The smaller a party is, the more likely its supporters are to give endless advice to the DA on what to do to win votes, and the less likely they are to offer their own, often minuscule, party advice on how to grow or win votes. 7.5K views · 79 likes · 10 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views2 890this account935median for 10K–100K
Reach, %5.81%this account3.43%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.32%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post2 8909353.09×
Reach (views ÷ followers)5.81%3.43%1.69×
Engagement rate1.32%1.55%0.85×

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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

7.5K12 Sep
2.7K
8.9K
3.1K
702
539
286
3.9K13 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.24%12 Sep
1.00%
1.60%
1.82%
1.00%
1.11%
1.40%
2.89%13 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes83.6%383 in total
Reposts8.1%37 in total
Replies6.6%30 in total
Bookmarks1.7%8 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.

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