Pierre de Vos ⚖️

@pierredevos · Cape Town · joined 22 May 2009

Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. You need to read.

183 512Followers

727Following

22 138Posts total

59.6KViews on collected posts

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Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos10 Sep

https://t.co/KYRV1P87Nk

1.7K views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos10 Sep

@pierredevos This is how our country is ran? They couldn't even sort out their own candidate list, and instead of taking responsibility, they're bullying the IEC for their mess. Just like as citizens, we're always paying for their mistakes. The ANC of Mbalula is incompetently arr 2.4K views · 30 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos10 Sep

The IEC replying affidavit paints a chaotic picture of the ANC candidate submission process. It withdrew a list an hour an 16 minutes before deadline and still submitted lists with just more than 2 minutes to go to the deadline. https://t.co/JKEmaOyuUD

46.5K views · 296 likes · 151 reposts · 36 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos8 Sep

"OMG, they're doing CPR on a prisoner because we beat him. He's dead. Listen, it's funny how it all happened in an instant: Boom, count. Boom, dead prisoner." 487 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos8 Sep

UK accuses Israeli terrorists of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing. Ed Miliband announces sanctions on trade with settlements as PM says it is time to act. (Or at least time to pretend to act against the genocidal state). https://t.co/Vy9HFrdJrX 855 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos8 Sep

All this frenetic activity does feel born of Trump’s conviction that it should be possible to shitpost his way out of anything, even a war. After all, the Iran war, which I seem to remember was won on day one, has now been going on for more than 6 months. https://t.co/9YSCVs2Ac6 641 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos8 Sep

@pierredevos @News24 @grok summarise this article 47 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos8 Sep

@pierredevos @News24 Best: Boks. Worst: News24 making up some race baiting rubbish. Again. 59 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos8 Sep

🔒Azhar Cachalia | The jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court: Time for reform? https://t.co/JBUGK1g79R via @news24 3K views · 12 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos8 Sep

Adriaan Basson | The best and worst of us – in one week https://t.co/hzl3mwFtgP via @news24 3.8K views · 4 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 300this account5 983median for 100K–1M

Reach, %0.71%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.57%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	1 300	5 983	0.22×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.71%	1.49%	0.48×
Engagement rate	0.57%	0.93%	0.62×

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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

3.8K8 Sep

641

855

487

46.5K10 Sep

2.4K

1.7K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.21%8 Sep

0.57%

1.69%

4.26%

0.00%

0.21%

1.04%10 Sep

1.27%

0.57%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.

What the audience does

Likes57.5%351 in total

Reposts26.2%160 in total

Replies6.9%42 in total

Bookmarks9.3%57 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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