Sandra Gathmann

@SandraGathmann · joined 29 Mar 2010

Host/writer of ‘Start Here' - the show that helps you understand global news. (Online @AJEnglish). Venezuelan roots, hatched in Japan, migrating ever since.

23 668Followers

1 199Following

9 588Posts total

44.5KViews on collected posts

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Sandra Gathmann@SandraGathmann6 Oct 2025

Friends of 'Start Here' we would love your help to win the people's vote at the @lovieawards. We've just reached first place in the news and politics category but need your help to stay there. https://t.co/cEZk560Ibh #Lovies 750 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Sandra Gathmann@SandraGathmann11 Sep 2025

What will it mean for a bunch of new, Western countries to recognize Palestine as a state? Our latest expainer: https://t.co/luBF4m7mPb 5.6K views · 31 likes · 5 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Sandra Gathmann@SandraGathmann15 Jul 2025

Save this for when Kashmir is back in the news. Our latest explainer is out - watch here. 34.1K views · 558 likes · 69 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

Sandra Gathmann@SandraGathmann25 Jun 2025

Confused about the mess that was the Israel-Iran "12-day war" (as Trump's called it)? Plenty of us are. I asked my instagram community to send me some questions and then enlisted the help of Mark Fitzpatrick to address some of them. https://t.co/jaOMSHwn8j 4K views · 28 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Sandra Gathmann@SandraGathmann15 Aug 2022

Annnnd it’s finally out! We went to Afghanistan a few weeks ago to put together an explainer for people still unsure of what’s behind the crisis in Afghanistan right now. WATCH IT HERE: 0 views · 294 likes · 49 reposts · 29 replies Open on X →

Sandra Gathmann@SandraGathmann15 Aug 2022

Afghanistan’s economy has been in turmoil since the Taliban took power a year ago. How did it get so bad? And can the Taliban turn things around? @SandraGathmann takes #AJStartHere to Afghanistan to explain what’s going on. Watch the full episode ➡️ https://t.co/3NbKFLW5Uj http

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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.

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4K25 Jun

34.1K15 Jul

5.6K11 Sep

7506 Oct

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.90%25 Jun

1.89%15 Jul

0.71%11 Sep

1.20%6 Oct

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes63.0%623 in total

Reposts8.1%80 in total

Replies2.8%28 in total

Bookmarks26.1%258 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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