Hammer & Hope

@HammerandHope · Sign up for our newsletter! · joined 12 Feb 2022

"I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton. Free to read. Become a member! Links in bio.

10 034Followers

994Following

2 333Posts total

11.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views1 694this account1 637median for 10K–100K

Reach, %16.88%this account5.01%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.83%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 694	1 637	1.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	16.88%	5.01%	3.37×
Engagement rate	2.83%	1.81%	1.57×

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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

1.7K24 Jun

1.1K17 Aug

6.2K20 Aug

2.2K27 Aug

4723 Sep

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

2.83%24 Jun

1.00%17 Aug

2.98%20 Aug

3.87%27 Aug

2.54%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.

What the audience does

Likes56.6%245 in total

Reposts19.2%83 in total

Replies1.2%5 in total

Quotes1.6%7 in total

Bookmarks21.5%93 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

There’s been a lot of conversation about the pay-to-play model infiltrating youth sports. In Issue No.11, @_seanjacobs uses the U.S. men's soccer team as a case study for understanding the implications of this model for working-class Black and brown kids. https://t.co/Ishr3w3fHz 472 views · 7 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Happy birthday, Alice Coltrane! The musician became an ancestor in 2007, at the age of 69, but her musical and spiritual practices remain indelible, illuminating a path toward more liberatory Black futures. https://t.co/eLRlF904gl https://t.co/cUt9V4w21d 2.2K views · 62 likes · 18 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 In Issue No. 11, Roshan Abraham wrote an essay about an unpublished June Jordan novel. He considers Jordan’s work in urban planning and how that expertise, coupled with a visit to Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Cooperative, inspired a radical vision. https://t.co/GpAwPZtnGd http 6.2K views · 142 likes · 37 reposts · 2 replies 20 Aug 2026 In Issue No. 5, @KeeangaYamahtta spoke to @DanielDenvir of @thedigradio Kamala Harris’s catastrophic loss to Trump. Their conclusions about the Democrats’ ineffectual leadership and the potential for a left-wing alternative anticipated this election cycle. https://t.co/t3H8I9Rwsv 1.1K views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 17 Aug 2026 Issue 11 is LIVE! We are besieged by a ruling class focused on maintaining white power. They represent one tradition in the United States. But there is another, found in 250 years of resistance, rebellion, and refusal. Read here: https://t.co/buw991droO https://t.co/oMnZsq1N 1.7K views · 27 likes · 21 reposts · 0 replies 24 Jun 2026