Hassan I. Hassan ✓

@hxhassan · Washington, DC · joined 08 Mar 2009

Founder and editor in chief of the award-winning @newlinesmag. Award-winning journalist. New York Times Bestselling Author. Syrian American.

122 755Followers

1 690Following

86 865Posts total

11.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Hassan I. Hassan ✓@hxhassan9 Sep

Thousands of Syrian women signed up for a police force without knowing exactly why they were being recruited. Some were revolutionaries, some widows. One left a 2-month-old at home to train. Reportage by @subhash_anagha in @newlinesmag. https://t.co/qXhLADjFUy 675 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Hassan I. Hassan ✓@hxhassan8 Sep

Observing the 2020 Beirut blast from Paris, Renate Mattar began saving material flooding social media. Six years and many conflicts later, she writes about the ad hoc archive she produced, and what it says about Lebanon, for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/v1V5S5byqh 2.7K views · 3 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Hassan I. Hassan ✓@hxhassan7 Sep

A “Christian Crusader March” was recently staged in Dearborn, Michigan, organized by the pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang. The state's U.S. Senate race is testing the bounds of Islamophobia in U.S. politics, reports @minnaharshad for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/VFWdErQXQO 2.6K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Hassan I. Hassan ✓@hxhassan7 Sep

How 9/11 Remade America @shadihamid joins @FaisalAlYafai on The Lede podcast 🎙️ discuss how the attacks 25 years ago changed America and the Middle East, and his new book, “Can Religion Save Democracy?” https://t.co/I2hwXKsuse 2.4K views · 3 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Hassan I. Hassan ✓@hxhassan4 Sep

Got introduced to a new term - https://t.co/NbnC6voTgQ

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2.9K views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views2 630this account4 050median for 100K–1M

Reach, %2.14%this account1.58%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.30%this account1.34%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	2 630	4 050	0.65×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.14%	1.58%	1.36×
Engagement rate	0.30%	1.34%	0.23×

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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

2.9K4 Sep

2.4K7 Sep

2.6K

2.7K8 Sep

6759 Sep

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

0.34%4 Sep

0.21%7 Sep

0.30%

0.22%8 Sep

0.44%9 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.34%.

What the audience does

Likes57.5%23 in total

Reposts22.5%9 in total

Bookmarks20.0%8 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.