Ahmed Quraishi ✓

@_AhmedQuraishi · joined 16 Feb 2020

Journalist. NatSec in MENA. War correspondent: Lebanon 2006, Iraq 1995-2003. Gulf. Iran. Pakistan. My opinions here are strictly personal.

27 300Followers

9 387Following

34 800Posts total

4.6KViews on collected posts

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Ahmed Quraishi ✓@_AhmedQuraishi7 Sep

A young Yemeni tears up the poster of Abdul-Malik Al Houthi, leader of the #Iran-backed Houthi militia, at an unknown linerated part of #Yemen. Yemeni army says it has made important gains against the militia on the ground in battles over the past week. https://t.co/jrhevLYgvd 5 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ahmed Quraishi ✓@_AhmedQuraishi7 Sep

Yemeni Army says its forces took Al-Labnat camp in Al-Jawf, a major Houthi logistics hub on the desert road leading up to capital Sanaa, established in the early days of Houthi takeover of 2015. Video shows armed convoys rolling through the dunes. Reports range from "surrounded" 431 views · 9 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ahmed Quraishi ✓@_AhmedQuraishi7 Sep

Fascinating: A Chinese scholar heads to Harvard to work on how "to bridge the gap in US-China relations." The first good sign he notes is that he wasn't turned away at the airport in Boston. The piece that Wang Xiangwei wrote for a Chinese outlet is worth a read. 582 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ahmed Quraishi ✓@_AhmedQuraishi7 Sep

A remarkable line from Tina Ghazi-Morad, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi's Director of Communications and Media, in her speech at the "Free Iran and the European Union" conference in Düsseldorf: "The Islamic Republic has strived for nearly five decades to impose two lies on the people 1.6K views · 5 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ahmed Quraishi ✓@_AhmedQuraishi6 Sep

A Palestinian from Gaza writes on the enclave's future, only to have someone who is not even Palestinian [British-Indian Muslim, to be precise, but could be anyone] call the article a "pro-genocide piece". Hijacking the Palestinian label and using it for political agendas is a 1.9K views · 58 likes · 16 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views582this account1 084median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.13%this account3.91%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.38%this account1.69%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	582	1 084	0.54×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.13%	3.91%	0.55×
Engagement rate	1.38%	1.69%	0.81×

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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

1.9K6 Sep

1.6K7 Sep

582

431

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

4.11%6 Sep

0.74%7 Sep

1.37%

3.71%

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.69%.

What the audience does

Likes61.8%76 in total

Reposts21.1%26 in total

Replies8.1%10 in total

Quotes3.3%4 in total

Bookmarks5.7%7 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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