Sipho Kings

@SiphoKings · PGP · joined 19 May 2009

Publisher, @thecontinent_, a weekly African newspaper | @risj_oxford Climate Journalism Network advisory board | @NewmarkJPlus | '18 Harvard @niemanfdn

13 587Followers

6 641Following

770Posts total

10.1KViews on collected posts

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Sipho Kings@SiphoKings11 Feb 2025

Meet this moment with quality public interest journalism. There's a reason the kleptocrats tearing away oversight hate good newsrooms. Their goal is amassing wealth, regardless of the destruction it causes. Ours is to shine a light, ask tough questions and empower readers. 224 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Sipho Kings@SiphoKings8 Aug 2024

🇧🇼 3.3K views · 30 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sipho Kings@SiphoKings14 Feb 2024

Meet the core team that makes @thecontinent_ each week - working with a wider network of 400 great journalists and storytellers across Africa. 4.1K views · 31 likes · 11 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sipho Kings@SiphoKings15 Jan 2024

"Biting criticism of Africa with love as the engine." - We asked our @thecontinent_ readers how they describe the newspaper to others. The answers were rather lovely. And insightful. 2.4K views · 15 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Sipho Kings@SiphoKings22 Jun 2021

THREAD: Journalism is destroying its workers. We need to talk more about this. We have to start treating mental health seriously. 0 views · 932 likes · 433 reposts · 49 replies Open on X →

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

2.4K15 Jan

4.1K14 Feb

3.3K8 Aug

22411 Feb

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

0.91%15 Jan

1.05%14 Feb

0.99%8 Aug

0.89%11 Feb

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

What the audience does

Likes77.0%77 in total

Reposts19.0%19 in total

Replies4.0%4 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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