Yeganeh Torbati

@yjtorbati · Istanbul, Türkiye · joined 04 Mar 2010

@NYTimes Iran correspondent | Co-author of “Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran” (@DoubledayBooks) | Former @WashingtonPost @ProPublica @Reuters

27 768Followers

3 098Following

8 749Posts total

53KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Yeganeh Torbati@yjtorbati31 Aug

Fascinating piece by Emad Shargi, from whom I learned a great deal while reporting my book — What Six Years as an Iran Hostage Taught Me About the Regime https://t.co/2jlTAHkD6N 1.9K views · 16 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Yeganeh Torbati@yjtorbati26 Aug

Somehow The Americans and Crazy Ex Girlfriend aren't on this list (but deserve to be) 6.3K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Yeganeh Torbati@yjtorbati26 Aug

In our book we reported on pressures that Iran's tech sector, including Digikala, faced from security state + regime conglomerates. This excerpt describes how DK was forced to sell shares to company part-owned by Setad, Khamenei's favored conglomerate https://t.co/PiZ0l6Fmc4 7.3K views · 30 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Yeganeh Torbati@yjtorbati17 Aug

Azad, the Iranian YouTube show I wrote about last wk, shares that host Mahdi Ahmadi has been charged with "spreading falsehoods" by the government. The channel has been prohibited from publishing content until further notice. Read my piece here https://t.co/oBleKXWtIq 26.7K views · 117 likes · 27 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Yeganeh Torbati@yjtorbati2 Jun

Deeply appreciate this review of our book from @nytimesbooks: “The result is one of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years, capturing not only the machinery of repression but the fragile forms of hope that survive beneath it.” https://t.co/LgeF85IjF0 10.7K views · 53 likes · 18 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views6 840this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %24.63%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.53%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 840	924	7.40×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	24.63%	3.62%	6.80×
Engagement rate	0.53%	1.52%	0.35×

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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

10.7K2 Jun

26.7K17 Aug

7.3K26 Aug

6.3K

1.9K31 Aug

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

0.68%2 Jun

0.57%17 Aug

0.49%26 Aug

0.14%

1.11%31 Aug

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

What the audience does

Likes65.4%223 in total

Reposts15.8%54 in total

Replies4.4%15 in total

Bookmarks14.4%49 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.