Paul Olind

@OlindPaul · Nairobi · joined 05 Oct 2019

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities

20 168Followers

1 459Following

57 355Posts total

750.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views13 247this account1 045median for 10K–100K

Reach, %65.68%this account3.41%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.13%this account2.02%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	13 247	1 045	12.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	65.68%	3.41%	19.3×
Engagement rate	1.13%	2.02%	0.56×

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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

395K24 Dec

7524 Feb

269K10 Mar

366

1322 Oct

21.2K24 Aug

8233 Sep

13.8K

25.7K4 Sep

4.5K5 Sep

13.2K

6.1K

Last 12 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.14%24 Dec

0.13%4 Feb

0.12%10 Mar

0.27%

1.52%2 Oct

0.48%24 Aug

1.94%3 Sep

1.03%

2.56%4 Sep

0.62%5 Sep

1.13%

1.95%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 2.02%.

What the audience does

Likes63.2%1 387 in total

Reposts25.1%550 in total

Replies3.9%85 in total

Quotes2.8%61 in total

Bookmarks5.0%110 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.

Latest posts

True, Cairo's endgame seems incomprehensible. A military solution is untenable, the dam has immense symbolism and support across Africa. It would be geopolitical suicide to hit it. Ethiopia also won't surrender control of a sovereign project. So what exactly is Egypt's plan? 6.1K views · 92 likes · 24 reposts · 3 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Dear Egypt, there's no amount of lobbying that will unbuild a built facility that the whole of Africa supports. And remember, every river that supplies or drains Lake Victoria will equally be dammed. Advice: Invest the resources you're using to lobby the West in desalination. 13.2K views · 111 likes · 33 reposts · 5 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Huge opportunity for Tanzania or Uganda if they're serious... 4.5K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 7 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

🇰🇪 Safari Rally Kenya's WRC future hangs in the balance, as it is still chasing funding to secure its 2027 calendar slot 💸 The rally will no longer be publicly-funded or operated by the government's sports ministry, as it had been in previous editions. Both the FIA and WRC http 25.7K views · 412 likes · 194 reposts · 23 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Harare = Nairobi with spacious avenues and streets. 📸lens_from_zimbabwe https://t.co/ci6mwjQtOZ 13.8K views · 110 likes · 20 reposts · 6 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Tick tock. Kenya is still unlikely to see the kind of anti-foreigner violence witnessed in South Africa, but economic pressures and perceptions around foreign-owned businesses will make targeting foreigners an increasingly potent political and populist issue. 823 views · 10 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Harare probably most closely resembles Nairobi, at least the slightly older version of Nairobi. The biggest differences are Nairobi’s much taller skyline and Harare’s noticeably wider, more spacious avenues. 21.2K views · 82 likes · 12 reposts · 4 replies 24 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@OlindPaul Been reading his book The Gulag Archipelago and I strongly recommend it. 132 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Oct 2024 · Open on X →

@OlindPaul https://t.co/n5kVhlpLER 366 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 10 Mar 2024 · Open on X →

Life can be difficult and this makes Kenyans crafty, because at the end of the day man must eat. Ever known that P3 is a booming business? It is someone's chepkube. Each market has professional victim of assault who makes a living from being beaten. They walk around the market 269K views · 217 likes · 73 reposts · 27 replies 10 Mar 2024 · Open on X →

@OlindPaul Some people know Others people do not know Others do not know that they do not know But still some think they know when they do not know But somehow they they think they know And other do not know they know In all of them, they do not know what they think they know is 752 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Feb 2023 · Open on X →

Arguing with these types...not worth it https://t.co/1kF3HExIAp 395K views · 333 likes · 189 reposts · 7 replies 24 Dec 2022 · Open on X →