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Iftikhar Firdous

@IftikharFirdous · Somewhere Up North-West · joined 19 Sep 2010

Editor @khorasandiary. Still Learning. Former Human-being. PhD, Psycholinguistics UC. Militant Ideologies & Jihadist Discourses - West Asia & Beyond.

71 919Followers
649Following
91 723Posts total
696.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani met U.S. Special Envoy Tom Barrack in Ankara to discuss Syria–U.S. relations and the latest regional developments, according to SANA. Separately, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Barrack and U.S. Representative Darrell Issa 1.5K views · 33 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
The ideal life of the uncle sleeping on the right side, WhatsApp only. 10.6K views · 160 likes · 16 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →
The war is now expanding. The Panama-flagged tanker New Andros, carrying about 2 million barrels of Iraqi fuel oil, was struck by a drone in Iraqi territorial waters, causing a fire. Iraqi port officials said that all 22 crew were unharmed and the fire was extinguished. UKMTO 3.8K views · 105 likes · 18 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Saudi backed forces launched 32 airstrikes across four Yemeni provinces overnight, following the Houthi missile-and-drone attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure that wounded 73 people. The Houthis say the strikes hit areas under their control; casualty figures remain unverified, and 7.2K views · 159 likes · 35 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
@IftikharFirdous True. The perfect breeding ground for militancy isn’t ideology, it’s 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲. Fix the state, or militants will 'fix' it for you with bullets. 176 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@IftikharFirdous It all started with the dollar Jihad project financed by CIA, human resources were supplied by our establishment. CIA defeated the USSR. But the question is what have we got from this except bloodshed, widows, orphans, and destruction of infrastructures. 1.2K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@IftikharFirdous Well yes. But thats for later. Right now when peace and tranquility is being disturbed, force is the only way to deal with the immediate threat. 1.5K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
The more you understand structured militancy and global terrorism, the more you realise the basic unit of conflict is the absence of the state, failure to deliver timely justice, address inequality & impose itself through service delivery rather than force. 670.2K views · 932 likes · 196 reposts · 49 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 far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views5 514this account954median for 10K–100K
Reach, %7.67%this account3.34%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.52%this account1.90%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post5 5149545.78×
Reach (views ÷ followers)7.67%3.34%2.30×
Engagement rate2.52%1.90%1.33×

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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

670.2K20 Dec
1.5K
1.2K
17611 Apr
7.2K9 Sep
3.8K
10.6K
1.5K

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

0.18%20 Dec
0.55%
0.76%
1.70%11 Apr
2.73%9 Sep
3.26%
1.77%
2.32%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.90%.

What the audience does

Likes75.9%1 406 in total
Reposts14.4%266 in total
Replies3.7%68 in total
Bookmarks6.1%113 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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