The Debt Collective 🟥

@StrikeDebt · joined 04 Jun 2012

The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: press@debtcollective.org

97 644Followers

10 414Following

66 961Posts total

2.8MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views54 860this account2 747median for 10K–100K

Reach, %56.18%this account8.35%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %5.06%this account1.45%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	54 860	2 747	20.0×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	56.18%	8.35%	6.73×
Engagement rate	5.06%	1.45%	3.50×

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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

1.7M1 Apr

278.3K1 Sep

5K2 Sep

653.1K

8.2K

100.3K3 Sep

9.4K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.31%1 Apr

1.51%1 Sep

3.73%2 Sep

2.05%

8.07%

6.47%3 Sep

6.40%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.45%.

What the audience does

Likes66.6%23 002 in total

Reposts17.3%5 972 in total

Replies4.0%1 379 in total

Quotes1.8%632 in total

Bookmarks10.2%3 538 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

Sadly, this idea isn't new. When Biden was considering student debt cancellation back in 2022, the military was a vocal opponent because they were experiencing military recruitment "shortfalls." In the absence of an actual draft, the military needs indebted people or else... 9.4K views · 475 likes · 124 reposts · 2 replies 03 Sep 2026 Rep. Maxwell Frost does a good job of explaining student debt cancellation here in a macro-economic sense. But he also exposes something even sweeter: that there is no actual, sensible rationale for anyone to oppose student debt cancellation. 100.3K views · 5.6K likes · 862 reposts · 25 replies 03 Sep 2026 ...they say as they blow up the world 8.2K views · 597 likes · 62 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 The Jerusalem Post is now running editorials with ideas for how the Pentagon could recruit enough American soldiers to launch a ground invasion of Iran. They want to exploit the crippling debt young Americans are carrying by offering them a chance at forgiveness if they’re https 653.1K views · 8.8K likes · 3.5K reposts · 652 replies 02 Sep 2026 Yes! Can we add another thing? While we fully fund tuition-free colleges, let's *defund* predatory, for-profit colleges. Unfortunately, the federal government still funds predatory schools. We dish out loans just to cancel them later to schools we funded. Let's just cut them off. 5K views · 158 likes · 26 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 When I first introduced legislation to make public colleges tuition-free in 2015, it was called “a radical idea.” Not anymore. Today, nearly 1,000 colleges in 45 states are tuition-free for working families. We can’t stop there. All public colleges must be tuition-free — 278.3K views · 3.1K likes · 491 reposts · 546 replies 01 Sep 2026 If you have federal student debt, you may have recently received an email from the Department of Education telling student debtors who are in the SAVE forbearance to switch plans. We want to encourage you to not rush this next step. Take a deep breath. You have until September. 1.7M views · 4.3K likes · 899 reposts · 152 replies 01 Apr 2026