archivi.ng ✓

@StartArchiving · Non-Profit · joined 19 Jul 2020

Building Nigeria’s historical record online. Today: newspapers, magazines, oral histories. Tomorrow: an archive that outlasts us all.

32 269Followers

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8 098Posts total

179.3KViews on collected posts

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archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving18 Sep

@StartArchiving This country is and always has been one huge blood sucking vampire. There's something very dark and sinister about this madly Amalgamated contraption called Nigeria. It really should be dissolved once and for all. 568 views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving18 Sep

https://t.co/8jpnsaskQF 1.7K views · 2 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving18 Sep

https://t.co/5i26rCHF5c 2.4K views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving18 Sep

In 1980, President Shehu Shagari vowed that the officers responsible for locking 68 suspects inside an overcrowded Black Maria would face severe punishment. Fifty of the suspects had suffocated to death. But a year later, nine policemen on trial over the deaths were discharged h

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archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving18 Sep

In March 1980, 50 men suffocated to death after officers locked them in an overcrowded Black Maria and rejected their pleas for fresh air. ▶️A day earlier, police officers had raided Isolo and Mushin in Lagos following what they described as an armed robbery incident and https:/

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archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving8 Sep

In 2004, FIFA wrote to the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) to question an ongoing restructuring by the Ministry of Sports. FIFA said it was concerned by reports of government interference in the running of Nigerian football. If the restructuring was found to constitute https

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archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving8 Sep

Every day this month, we’ll resurface posters, newspaper adverts, magazine covers and campaign material from Nigerian elections that took place before the youngest first-time voters in next year’s elections were born. Today, we go back to 2003. https://t.co/llk176zgHN

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archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving7 Sep

How much are you buying this today? https://t.co/NRYYLu7xXF

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archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving7 Sep

Every first Monday of the month, we'll share some of the most interesting ads in the archive, from as far back as the 1960s, that convinced your grandparents to buy things and form long-lasting habits. This month, we revisit ads that convinced your grandparents to buy https://t.

1.3K views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving9 Jul

@StartArchiving What are members benefits? 29 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving30 Mar

@StartArchiving Build a community for those who care, you can not or should not market to everyone, it will only become clear to many if and when the network effects of actions and consequences gets mapped out with details. 78 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

archivi.ng ✓@StartArchiving21 Feb

Starting from ₦7,500 a month, you can support our mission to keep Nigerian history alive and at everyone’s fingertips. Scan the code or tap the link to become a member today. https://t.co/mW6Br0mYbz https://t.co/xzjGndZpZR

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Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 533this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %4.75%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.37%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 533	924	1.66×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	4.75%	3.62%	1.31×
Engagement rate	0.37%	1.52%	0.24×

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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

50.2K21 Feb

7830 Mar

299 Jul

1.3K7 Sep

906

5458 Sep

3.1K

66.8K18 Sep

51.6K

2.4K

1.7K

568

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.62%21 Feb

3.85%30 Mar

0.00%9 Jul

0.45%7 Sep

0.99%

0.00%8 Sep

0.23%

1.58%18 Sep

0.78%

0.21%

0.29%

1.76%

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

What the audience does

Likes43.6%883 in total

Reposts38.8%787 in total

Replies2.2%45 in total

Quotes5.0%102 in total

Bookmarks10.3%209 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

8 Sep

Daily snapshots since 08 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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