Monica Marks

@MonicaLMarks · joined 19 May 2011

Comparative politics w/ a focus on Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD @StAntsCollege Oxford. Fulbright, Rhodes, @HarvardWCFIA. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more.

42 240Followers

4 968Following

51 466Posts total

176.9KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views5 281this account2 747median for 10K–100K

Reach, %12.50%this account8.35%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.59%this account1.45%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 281	2 747	1.92×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.50%	8.35%	1.50×
Engagement rate	1.59%	1.45%	1.10×

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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

105K20 Mar

8.8K3 Sep

5.3K

2.9K

37.6K

1.4K

14.9K4 Sep

851

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

0.06%20 Mar

0.53%3 Sep

2.37%

0.65%

0.38%

1.59%

8.24%4 Sep

2.12%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.45%.

What the audience does

Likes69.2%1 205 in total

Reposts23.0%400 in total

Replies3.2%55 in total

Quotes0.6%10 in total

Bookmarks4.1%72 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

ICE’s efforts to aggregate state-level voter data into a single national database would give it unprecedented surveillance powers. Never before would a US federal law enforcement agency—let alone operating w/ near-complete impunity—have had access to so much voting information. 851 views · 11 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Fusing secret police and paramiltary capacities 14.9K views · 854 likes · 348 reposts · 22 replies 04 Sep 2026 I think about this every day. Especially today bc dozens of men & women I’ve interviewed across Tunisia’s political spectrum—many of them elderly & with health conditions—were just condemned to years & even decades-longer terms than they’ve already served as politica 1.4K views · 15 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 A vastly improved answer from @AbdulElSayed. This simultaneously signals (a) inclusion, to Hasan’s many admirers on the left and (b) both electoral pragmatism & protective outreach to potentially mislead youth, to more centrist listeners looking for reasons to move past this 37.6K views · 121 likes · 9 reposts · 13 replies 03 Sep 2026 His name was Alaa Eddine Abdul Qadir, a 24-year-old Tunisian student. His family reports he died of thirst and suffocation from extreme prison heat. Tunisia’s prisons are at a breaking point, marked by dangerous overcrowding, suspicious deaths, and targeted crackdowns on civil 2.9K views · 12 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Ethnically cleansing Palestinians is indeed a “Deus Ex Machina approach to the conflict” — as impracticable as sending Israelis “back to Europe.” That’s why accepting that 5.6 mil Palestinians & 7.2 mil Israelis will stay in the Holy Land must be starting point for solutions 5.3K views · 105 likes · 15 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 No one who supports the Gaza emigration concept, can explain anything about it. We saw headlines in the past about sending people in Gaza to Somalia or Libya, which probably means then onward to Europe; but it is never explained “how” And the narrative is usually that the US is 8.8K views · 38 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 I greatly enjoyed this nearly 2 hour interview with Dr. Karadag tonight. His questions were superb, enabling me to explore everything from analytical framing of this war, to its drivers & implications in US & Iranian politics, to its effects on the Gulf, Turkey & muc 105K views · 49 likes · 5 reposts · 9 replies 20 Mar 2026