Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦

@TsurkanKate · Ukraine · joined 04 Mar 2020

American at home in Ukraine. Culture reporter at @kyivindependent, writer, translator, art collector

13 167Followers

3 472Following

9 545Posts total

72.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦@TsurkanKate26 Jul

Russian attacks destroyed more than 1.5 million Ukrainian books in July alone. I spoke to some Ukrainian publishers who were affected, and why continuing their business is the only way forward. This resilient story is now online at @KyivIndependent. https://t.co/XL7WJrsTi2 21.9K views · 93 likes · 30 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦@TsurkanKate25 Jul

The fate of hundreds of Ukrainian intellectuals during the Great Terror, after the subsiding of korenizatsiia, is proof of this. Stalin himself wrote that something “had to be done” with Mykola Khvylovy who advocated that Ukraine was more culturally in line with Europe. 1.2K views · 26 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦@TsurkanKate23 Jul

I have three (🫣) book translations coming out later this year, but until then, I thought it’s worth reminding you of three others that are already available by three very different—yet equally interesting—Ukrainian authors, exploring the war from different perspectives. https://t

2.1K views · 82 likes · 25 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦@TsurkanKate12 Jul

@TsurkanKate @DecodingTrolls @KyivIndependent "german photographer who has worked for hitler media was shortlisted for a British prize for his series on occupied Oświęcim." 217 views · 5 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦@TsurkanKate11 Jul

A Russian photographer who has worked for Kremlin media was shortlisted for a German prize for his series on occupied Mariupol. Read my latest on this scandal at @KyivIndependent. https://t.co/fX1J0luiuH 25K views · 144 likes · 55 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦@TsurkanKate30 Jun

Tucker Carlson presents himself as an American patriot, but he just invited Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout on his podcast to spread Kremlin propaganda. I unpacked some of their many lies for @KyivIndependent. https://t.co/ANj6KkjqAS 21.8K views · 173 likes · 49 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views11 939this account927median for 10K–100K

Reach, %90.67%this account3.40%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.90%this account1.54%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	11 939	927	12.9×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	90.67%	3.40%	26.7×
Engagement rate	1.90%	1.54%	1.24×

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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

21.8K30 Jun

25K11 Jul

21712 Jul

2.1K23 Jul

1.2K25 Jul

21.9K26 Jul

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.08%30 Jun

0.82%11 Jul

3.69%12 Jul

5.39%23 Jul

2.72%25 Jul

0.58%26 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.54%.

What the audience does

Likes69.0%523 in total

Reposts22.2%168 in total

Replies3.4%26 in total

Bookmarks5.4%41 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.