Mara Cepeda ✓

@maracepeda · Manila, Philippines · joined 27 Jun 2009

Philippines Correspondent for @straits_times | AJF ‘21 fellow | @UNRAF ‘23 fellow | 📥 cmara@sph.com.sg | Views are my own.

61 182Followers

1 751Following

70 130Posts total

65.2KViews on collected posts

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Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda11 Sep

Philippine Defence Secretary Gibo Teodoro won widespread praise at home for his public rebuke of China in Seoul. But the incident was an embarrassment for Beijing, adding fresh tension to already strained ties. With our China Correspondent Daryl Loo 🙏🏻 @CollinSLKoh 1.5K views · 18 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda2 Sep

When billions meant to keep communities flood-free are lost to corruption, politicians wearing Prada or Balmain jackets while visiting typhoon-hit areas become more than just bad optics. It’s failed governance. 🙏🏻 @francojean825 @mhyusingco https://t.co/c3EqP2VgY6 11.3K views · 339 likes · 117 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda31 Aug

School shootings were once rare in the Philippines. What changed? A perfect storm of digital lives, online extremists targeting vulnerable youth, and a country reckoning with normalised violence after Duterte’s bloody drug war. 🙏🏻 @risahontiveros https://t.co/0GZ7WIBHjH https

1.4K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda30 Aug

@maracepeda @beacupin @IanEsguerra @chiarazambrano @rollingstoneph loved it! so insightful!!! 545 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda30 Aug

Sat down with @beacupin, @IanEsguerra, and @chiarazambrano for @rollingstoneph to talk about the state of Philippine politics under the Marcos government, and what it means to cover power at a time when journalism itself is under pressure. Timely released for National Press 37.4K views · 79 likes · 20 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda29 Aug

@maracepeda @mvn_dn “Manny Pacquiao may have hung up the gloves, but the Filipino sporting spirit didn’t retire with him. Filipinos will follow their heroes anywhere, and Alex Eala is looking more and more like the heir apparent. Wherever she goes, the Philippines goes with her.” 293 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda29 Aug

@maracepeda @mvn_dn Great article thank you for sharing Mara! (Haven’t finished reading hehe) 281 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda29 Aug

@maracepeda Beautiful piece, Mars. Thank you 🫶🏼 🇵🇭 🇸🇬 492 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Mara Cepeda ✓@maracepeda29 Aug

Alex Eala plays the US Open on Aug 30 as the most-watched Filipino athlete in a generation. And everywhere she goes, Filipinos go with her, from the countryside in England to a sold-out stadium in Toronto. Really enjoyed writing this one. 🙏🏻 @mvn_dn https://t.co/H6bW8wMXf2

12.1K views · 717 likes · 138 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 376this account971median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.25%this account3.68%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.36%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 376	971	1.42×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.25%	3.68%	0.61×
Engagement rate	1.36%	1.52%	0.90×

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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

12.1K29 Aug

492

281

293

37.4K30 Aug

545

1.4K31 Aug

11.3K2 Sep

1.5K11 Sep

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

7.22%29 Aug

1.42%

0.71%

1.37%

0.27%30 Aug

0.37%

0.73%31 Aug

4.09%2 Sep

1.42%11 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes75.3%1 174 in total

Reposts17.9%280 in total

Replies0.8%13 in total

Quotes0.9%14 in total

Bookmarks5.1%79 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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