Pieter Du Toit

@PieterDuToit · Johannesburg, South Africa · joined 16 Apr 2009

Assistant Editor: Investigations, News24 • Author, The Dark Prince, also The Stellenbosch Mafia and others (Jonathan Ball Publishers)

67 563Followers

1 596Following

27 044Posts total

386.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views19 914this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %29.47%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.60%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	19 914	2 896	6.88×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	29.47%	9.51%	3.10×
Engagement rate	1.60%	1.56%	1.03×

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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

286.8K23 Sep

59.2K2 Sep

38.6K3 Sep

689

1.2K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.29%23 Sep

0.32%2 Sep

1.18%3 Sep

2.03%

4.79%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes41.6%684 in total

Reposts18.6%305 in total

Replies25.5%419 in total

Quotes7.7%126 in total

Bookmarks6.6%109 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

Patronage networks face Armageddon as ANC’s decline accelerates https://t.co/zFxBlmcwha 1.2K views · 44 likes · 6 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 Met and spoke to some of SA’s best grain farmers at the annual Swartland Agriculture Show in Moorreesburg. Good, innovative people. Watched the saddle horse comp, and visited the Smuts birthplace. Plus two pancakes. https://t.co/Z1HdyG0g7W 689 views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Mashatile’s son-in-law pays back millions to Gauteng housing fund after News24 exposé https://t.co/RFsBRkIn6z 38.6K views · 246 likes · 134 reposts · 60 replies 03 Sep 2026 Sold out: AfriForum’s theatre seats fill up for Dr Death’s toxic tell-all https://t.co/vRrG112YK6 59.2K views · 41 likes · 29 reposts · 97 replies 02 Sep 2026 Paul Mashatile cut his teeth as a political activist in the tumult of 1980s Alex, he was detained without trial & after 1994 built a power base in Gauteng. He now wants to be president. But what does he stand for, to whom is he beholden, and how do his networks function? http 286.8K views · 342 likes · 135 reposts · 255 replies 23 Sep 2025