Adam Aw Hirsi, PhD ✓

@AwHirsiSO · East Africa · joined 10 Apr 2017

Thinker ¶ Practitioner ¶ Director @ForesightSO ¶ Reads the footnotes before the headlines ¶

141 542Followers

19Following

33 340Posts total

115KViews on collected posts

Ultimi post

Adam Aw Hirsi, PhD ✓@AwHirsiSO5 Sep

"Why don't I ever hear South Africans, Nigerians, or Kenyans advocating for Somaliland independence? Why is it only white people?" This is a legitimate question posed by @_hudsonc to @Dibjir. And it is at the heart of why unity of Somalia is the gate to African sovereignty. htt 4.8K views · 54 likes · 5 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Adam Aw Hirsi, PhD ✓@AwHirsiSO5 Sep

Somalia’s unity isn’t a moral talking point, it’s the actual security logic here. Bosaso proves the point: Washington gets what it needs from partnership with a federal member state, no recognition required. Hargeisa’s usefulness to the US and the West at large was always a 9.7K views · 50 likes · 7 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Adam Aw Hirsi, PhD ✓@AwHirsiSO4 Sep

An interesting deep dive into the potential new US military base in Bosaso, Puntland and how US Africom and intel agencies are already using it to coordinate strikes. My question, if this base is really being built and will be as big as suggested, what does the US need with a 40.8K views · 144 likes · 37 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →

Adam Aw Hirsi, PhD ✓@AwHirsiSO4 Sep

@ZiaYusufUK, what is truly happening is that you’re embarrassing yourself in real time and globally once more. Sagal was born in Somalia and brought to the UK as a child. Your own parents were born in Sri Lanka and came to the UK in their early thirties. I do not know how your 2.2K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Adam Aw Hirsi, PhD ✓@AwHirsiSO3 Sep

This is crossing into a very dangerous territory. I do not think the decision to initiate this attack was wise. If it is confirmed that foreign drones (Somalia has none) at the behest of @TheVillaSomalia attacked a general’s residence in Dollow, give it less than a year before 28.6K views · 139 likes · 40 reposts · 39 replies Open on X →

Adam Aw Hirsi, PhD ✓@AwHirsiSO14 Oct 2025

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name." - Confucius 28.8K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

5 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 100K–1M follower. arriva a più persone rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione.

Visualizzazioni mediane9 694questo account5 983mediana per 100K–1M

Copertura, %6.85%questo account1.49%mediana per 100K–1M

Interazione, %0.73%questo account0.93%mediana per 100K–1M

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 100K–1M	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	9 694	5 983	1.62×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	6.85%	1.49%	4.60×
Tasso di interazione	0.73%	0.93%	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

28.8K14 Oct

28.6K3 Sep

2.2K4 Sep

40.8K

9.7K5 Sep

4.8K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.07%14 Oct

0.79%3 Sep

0.32%4 Sep

0.53%

0.73%5 Sep

1.49%

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

What the audience does

Likes63.1%414 in total

Reposts13.6%89 in total

Replies12.7%83 in total

Quotes4.0%26 in total

Bookmarks6.7%44 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.