Heartland Signal

@HeartlandSignal · Chicago, IL · joined 30 Jan 2009

Covering politics and policy from the Midwest. Newsroom for @WCPT820.

72 661Followers

1 378Following

15 112Posts total

10.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views1 603this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.21%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.37%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 603	3 383	0.47×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.21%	10.96%	0.20×
Engagement rate	1.37%	1.40%	0.98×

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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

1.5K1 Sep

1.6K

2.2K2 Sep

3.6K

1.6K

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

0.32%1 Sep

0.57%

1.92%2 Sep

5.25%

1.37%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes70.3%196 in total

Reposts19.7%55 in total

Replies3.9%11 in total

Quotes1.4%4 in total

Bookmarks4.7%13 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

"I truly believe that some of these people who are beholden to this administration are being blackmailed." North Carolina congressional candidate LaKesha Womack calls out Republicans who flip-flopped overnight to fall in line for Donald Trump. https://t.co/oUzmWqX6t5 1.6K views · 16 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Through a statement given by Pastor Carl Ruby, Pierre Ronal Bel talks about the day his son, Haitian-Ohioan college student Pierre Damas Bel, killed himself over shame of losing his temporary protected status as an immigrant and being forced by ICE to wear an ankle monitor. https 3.6K views · 130 likes · 43 reposts · 10 replies 02 Sep 2026 "I could be a room full of billionaires and I’m like, 'I want to tax billionaires' ... Say the thing you believe, say it clearly, say it consistently." Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate @AbdulElSayed talks about how his message doesn't change from donors to voters. https 2.2K views · 38 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 "This is by far the most flippable of the three Republican-held congressional seats." IL-16 Democratic candidate @paulnolley says his campaign has joined the Illinois Democratic Party’s coordinated push, expanding outreach to metro areas like Rockford, Peoria, and Bloomington. h 1.6K views · 7 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 NC-14 Democratic candidate LaKesha Womack says outsiders make better lawmakers. "When you have people who are close to the problems, and who have not been in this politician-millionaire bubble for the past decade or so, you have people who are really willing to solve problems." 1.5K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026