Rachael Akidi

@rakidi · Global · joined 12 Feb 2009

Journalist | News junkie | All things Africa | Former BBC Senior News Editor & Head of East Africa | My tweets = my views. Likes = bookmarks

28 240Followers

3 328Following

37 744Posts total

87.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Rachael Akidi@rakidi19 Sep

Uganda. If you know you know. 😂 156 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Rachael Akidi@rakidi18 Sep

Banange Tiktok must be stopped 🤣😂 https://t.co/W6KXjkmMUQ

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49.2K views · 1.7K likes · 217 reposts · 77 replies Open on X →

Rachael Akidi@rakidi17 Sep

The Kizza Besigye case in Uganda has taken a dramatic turn; the star witness appears to have turned hostile, accusing Kenyan police of planting weapons in the apartment where Besigye & his aide were arrested. Here’s a summary from one of KB’s defence team. 1.2K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Rachael Akidi@rakidi17 Sep

🚨FRAMED IN NAIROBI. CONDEMNED IN ADVANCE. For 22 months, the State told Uganda and the world that it caught Dr Kizza Besigye and Hajji Obeid Lutale red-handed with two pistols. On Tuesday, the State's OWN star witness, Andrew Wilson alias "Orlando", told the High Court that htt

26.7K views · 650 likes · 306 reposts · 30 replies Open on X →

Rachael Akidi@rakidi13 Sep

End of an era. Silverstein was an institution at Nairobi Hospital. 898 views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Rachael Akidi@rakidi12 Sep

Good question. 667 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Rachael Akidi@rakidi24 Jun

Uganda is entering what may prove to be one of the most consequential chapters in its history. The story is still unfolding, but its significance is already becoming clear. What happens next will matter not only for Uganda, but far beyond its borders. 8.2K views · 166 likes · 68 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views1 073this account994median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.80%this account3.82%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.21%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 073	994	1.08×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.80%	3.82%	0.99×
Engagement rate	1.21%	1.52%	0.79×

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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

8.2K24 Jun

66712 Sep

89813 Sep

26.7K17 Sep

1.2K

49.2K18 Sep

15619 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.98%24 Jun

0.00%12 Sep

1.45%13 Sep

3.75%17 Sep

0.96%

4.10%18 Sep

0.00%19 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes72.3%2 536 in total

Reposts17.0%595 in total

Replies3.3%117 in total

Quotes1.3%44 in total

Bookmarks6.1%215 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.