Sanam Vakil صنم وكىل

@SanamVakil · London, England · joined 12 May 2013

Director of @ch_menap working on both sides of the Gulf & teaching Middle East politics @SAISHopkins

15 649Followers

3 987Following

6 423Posts total

49.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views7 066this account1 540median for 10K–100K

Reach, %45.15%this account4.74%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.53%this account1.87%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	7 066	1 540	4.59×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	45.15%	4.74%	9.53×
Engagement rate	0.53%	1.87%	0.28×

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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

17K8 Jul

5.6K2 Sep

16.2K

7.1K

3.6K3 Sep

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

0.53%8 Jul

0.12%2 Sep

0.43%

1.02%

0.66%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.87%.

What the audience does

Likes56.7%182 in total

Reposts15.3%49 in total

Replies7.2%23 in total

Quotes2.5%8 in total

Bookmarks18.4%59 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

💯 agree: post November Trump will be more unbound, focused on his legacy and very likely resume if not resolve the Iran mess he created 3.6K views · 17 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Today’s must read by Margaret MacMillan: A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready. ‘This is a world of increasing unpredictability in which we are left, to a much greater extent than we expected, at the whims of our leaders, who are less bound by external frameworks and 7.1K views · 51 likes · 19 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 How is this hideousness from the Israeli right alongside the appalling settler violence in the West Bank not generating more action from policymakers and loud opposition from the public??!! 16.2K views · 49 likes · 9 reposts · 7 replies 02 Sep 2026 The Russian Iranian relationship continues to hum along with Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles https://t.co/ni56Jk1APw 5.6K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 In this conversation with @amanpour @CNN we discuss the escalation between Iran and the US, my view of Iranian domestic politics, the risk of broader war, Israel-Lebanon and the need for persistent and consistent negotiations where I argue that the issues are too intertwined to 17K views · 60 likes · 16 reposts · 13 replies 08 Jul 2026