Selim Koru

@SelimKoru · London/İzmir · joined 10 Sep 2010

Author of "New Turkey and the Far Right" (I.B. Tauris) Political ideas, Nietzsche, Turkey @TEPAV Words: @nytimes, @TheAtlantic, @ForeignPolicy, etc.

15 339Followers

749Following

9 412Posts total

56.4KViews on collected posts

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Selim Koru@SelimKoru18 Sep

Not sure I'd go quite that far, but yeah. 1.2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Selim Koru@SelimKoru18 Sep

After years of studying exactly this; if Turkey really wanted to be an EU member, it would've been an EU member. Interpret that in any way you like. 27.6K views · 163 likes · 19 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Selim Koru@SelimKoru18 Sep

we're going live in half an hour 484 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Selim Koru@SelimKoru18 Sep

@NicholasDanfort and I will be going live to discuss: the impact of AI on daily life in Turkey (and other developing countries) + the Kurdish "peace process" in Turkey & Syria Turkey: 5:00 PM (UTC+3) London (UK): 3:00 PM (UTC+1) New York (USA): 10:00 AM (UTC-4) link below 1K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Selim Koru@SelimKoru17 Sep

Exactly. 571 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Selim Koru@SelimKoru17 Sep

The downsides of AI are much bigger in developing countries like Turkey: https://t.co/As2tC3tHew 1.1K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Selim Koru@SelimKoru16 Sep

I do think the AI extinction risk stuff is fake hype just not for the reasons everyone else does. The tech companies are really building powerful machines, that part is real, but they want everyone talking in far-off science fiction terms to avoid questions of near term liability 24.6K views · 677 likes · 92 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

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

Median views1 056this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.88%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.34%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 056	924	1.14×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.88%	3.62%	1.90×
Engagement rate	0.34%	1.52%	0.22×

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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

24.6K16 Sep

1.1K17 Sep

571

1K18 Sep

484

27.6K

1.2K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

3.19%16 Sep

0.09%17 Sep

0.35%

0.19%18 Sep

0.00%

0.73%

0.34%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes78.1%846 in total

Reposts10.2%111 in total

Replies2.2%24 in total

Quotes1.2%13 in total

Bookmarks8.2%89 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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