Joyce Karam ✓

@Joyce_Karam · Washington, DC · joined 25 May 2009

Editor-in-Chief @AlMonitor | Adjunct Professor, GWU | Author of China-Middle East newsletter 📝 RT≠ Endorsement 📧 joycekaram@protonmail.com

169 701Followers

2 994Following

47 354Posts total

169KViews on collected posts

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Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam17 Sep

@Joyce_Karam @aliamansour @AssalaOfficial https://t.co/7MAMm91QA6

GIF

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Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam17 Sep

A lot is going wrong in the Middle East but new Syria, despite many odds, has been offering some hope. Assala's return is more than freedom to sing, a symbolic homecoming for an artist exiled for opposing Assad, and a test of whether new era can make room for culture and dissent 5.8K views · 88 likes · 11 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam17 Sep

🇸🇾 🎵 Here it is: Syrian music icon Assala takes stage tonight in Damascus after 15 yrs of exile under Assad. Dramatic return and entry, as she bows to song “keep your head up high, you’re a free Syrian” https://t.co/Wa8vCsd1eR

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Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam17 Sep

NEW: How #China gains from Yemen chaos 1- US security posture weakened 2- Chinese weaponry with both sides 3- Saudi -Trump disagreements 4- Iran emboldened. More https://t.co/OpmsTSMvhm 4.1K views · 37 likes · 15 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam16 Sep

@Joyce_Karam @DrLiz16 @AlMonitor Donc même Israël hésite à ouvrir un front supplémentaire contre les Houthis. Pas parce qu’ils sont devenus inoffensifs, mais parce qu’à force de multiplier les fronts, les stocks, les intercepteurs et les capacités ne sont pas infinis. C’est peu 339 views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam16 Sep

No surprise here, little value for Israel given: - lack of leverage/deterrence in Yemen - wants to exact heavy price from Saudi before any such assistance - Houthis have not struck Israel since June 2.7K views · 28 likes · 7 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam16 Sep

SCOOP: Israeli intelligence officials do not favor entering war against Houthis at this point, or launching preemptive strikes in #Yemen. Details @AlMonitor https://t.co/sHvdvKk703 37K views · 125 likes · 73 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam14 Sep

UPDATE: #Yemen • Houthis advance, take 2 islands • CENTCOM chief meets Saudi's MBS • Vance: We are talking to Houthis • MBS to Egypt tomorrow • >80,000 displaced https://t.co/QYPpi59AsV 15.7K views · 45 likes · 24 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Joyce Karam ✓@Joyce_Karam9 Aug 2016

Reminder of what "Presidential" look like. George H. Bush letter to Bill Clinton on inauguration in 1993: https://t.co/nuiBERLUdx

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views4 904this account6 075median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.89%this account1.58%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.24%this account1.00%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 904	6 075	0.81×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.89%	1.58%	1.83×
Engagement rate	1.24%	1.00%	1.24×

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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

15.7K14 Sep

37K16 Sep

2.7K

339

4.1K17 Sep

102.5K

5.8K

949

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

0.50%14 Sep

0.58%16 Sep

1.36%

2.06%

1.36%17 Sep

1.12%

1.77%

0.74%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.00%.

What the audience does

Likes70.2%1 276 in total

Reposts16.0%291 in total

Replies1.8%33 in total

Quotes2.5%45 in total

Bookmarks9.5%173 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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