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Ken Opalo

@kopalo · Washington, DC · joined 17 Jun 2009

Dad. Nairobian. Associate Professor at @GeorgetownSFS. Author of Legislative Development in Africa (@CambridgeUP, 2019). Lifetime travel companion of @vwopalo.

28 227Followers
749Following
4 778Posts total
270.5KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Book Review 4/26: A Man of the World: Tom Mboya, the Cold War and Decolonization in Kenya (by Daniel Branch) https://t.co/YJ99S4pc7g 854 views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Turns out lots of people are interested in African countries’ demographics. Here’s a piece on the idea of three billion Africans: https://t.co/Oy5L7my1Tk 2.3K views · 25 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@kopalo The only foreign aid to Africa I support is condoms and birth control 3.6K views · 290 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →
@kopalo It will be again 6K views · 195 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
@kopalo The wonders of having access to Western medicine and healthcare. 7.6K views · 330 likes · 8 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
It's weird to think that in the late 1950s Europe's population was more than double that of Africa. 243K views · 4.1K likes · 218 reposts · 83 replies Open on X →
One of the lessons here is that it takes time and dedicated (informed) consistency on the development path. 1978-2000 was a long time. And yet in 2000 poverty was still at 66%. 5.3K views · 54 likes · 20 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Highly recommended: https://t.co/GDSVb1nIfG (featuring the brilliant @MssZeeUsman) 1.9K views · 17 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views4 444this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %15.75%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.79%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post4 4449244.81×
Reach (views ÷ followers)15.75%3.62%4.35×
Engagement rate1.79%1.52%1.18×

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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

1.9K21 Aug
5.3K29 Aug
243K2 Sep
7.6K3 Sep
6K
3.6K
2.3K
854

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.24%21 Aug
1.43%29 Aug
1.82%2 Sep
4.46%3 Sep
3.37%
8.18%
1.36%
1.76%

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

What the audience does

Likes86.6%4 990 in total
Reposts4.6%264 in total
Replies1.7%98 in total
Quotes0.9%50 in total
Bookmarks6.3%362 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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Frequently asked questions about @kopalo

How many followers does @kopalo have?

28 227 followers.

How many posts has @kopalo published?

4 778 posts.

How do posts by @kopalo perform?

Collected posts: 8. Views: 270 528. Likes: 4 990.