Geoffrey York

@geoffreyyork · Johannesburg · joined 27 May 2009

Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail (Canada). Based in Johannesburg; formerly in Moscow & Beijing. Email: gyork@globeandmail.com Bluesky: same user name

285 016Followers

13 964Following

83 637Posts total

558KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views11 334this account4 224median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.98%this account1.77%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.58%this account1.48%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	11 334	4 224	2.68×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.98%	1.77%	2.25×
Engagement rate	0.58%	1.48%	0.39×

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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

305K4 Sep

13.8K

11.3K

163.9K

19.9K

9.5K

6.7K

12.7K

5.1K

4.3K

5.9K5 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.60%4 Sep

0.90%

0.58%

0.39%

0.20%

0.54%

0.34%

0.17%

2.22%

1.87%

1.03%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.48%.

What the audience does

Likes58.7%1 960 in total

Reposts22.6%755 in total

Replies3.4%114 in total

Quotes6.4%212 in total

Bookmarks8.9%297 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

Watching season 2 of "The Agency" and amused by its premise: the African Union deploying US-trained "special forces" with guns blazing to "confront mercenary activity" by the Russians.... https://t.co/wbWPXr62r0 5.9K views · 41 likes · 11 reposts · 4 replies 05 Sep 2026 @geoffreyyork Will this improve governance in the countries of Africa by our various African leaders? Will this add to the natural resources that the various countries on the continent currently have? How will this help in bettering the lives of the people of Africa? Will this b 4.3K views · 78 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 @geoffreyyork Who’s lying here? BCCSA or SAPS? Because these are stats from the Police. https://t.co/PxZqtfyCeV 5.1K views · 87 likes · 19 reposts · 5 replies 04 Sep 2026 https://t.co/rGQ4xwfkv3 12.7K views · 17 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Here's how the US diplomat explained its vote against the African resolution: "Resolutions like this one and the ideological agenda they promote are barnacles on our work here... The US clearly sees it cannot be separated from the much larger and more radical ideological project" 6.7K views · 15 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 In my earlier report, I explained why Africa is campaigning to "correct the map" to show continents in true size. Historical maps, for example, show Greenland and Canada as being roughly as big as Africa. Accurate map (below) shows them as much smaller. https://t.co/boUeWmTcLe 9.5K views · 37 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 @NolwAzi_Tusini More details here: https://t.co/PcuCYadSJW 19.9K views · 21 likes · 11 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 South African public broadcaster SAFM has apologized for broadcasting a slew of blatant lies by an anti-migrant activist. The Broadcasting Complaints Commission ruled that the radio network had violated its code of conduct by failing to react to these lies or to demand evidence. 163.9K views · 359 likes · 218 reposts · 27 replies 04 Sep 2026 Ukraine abstained on the vote, because of a concern that the proposed "Equal Earth" map might show Crimea as part of Russia. 11.3K views · 55 likes · 8 reposts · 3 replies 04 Sep 2026 Once again, the Trump administration is alone in its opposition to a global consensus. 13.8K views · 112 likes · 7 reposts · 5 replies 04 Sep 2026 UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly in support of African resolution on accurate maps. The vote addresses the longstanding injustice of Mercator-based maps, which distort Africa's size, showing it as much smaller than it really is. https://t.co/uSt6yd5uj1 305K views · 1.1K likes · 464 reposts · 60 replies 04 Sep 2026 The Garima Gospels, one of the world's oldest surviving Christian manuscripts, is among the irreplaceable cultural treasures whose fate is unknown as the Tigray war rages on. Other historic manuscripts have been looted, and scholars are deeply worried. https://t.co/lDWiX3f2Ko 0 views · 587 likes · 404 reposts · 58 replies 10 May 2021