Joy Marie Clarkson

@joynessthebrave · East London · joined 19 Jan 2011

Literature & Theology, @kingstrs | Books & Culture @plough | Substack | Email: joy.clarkson@kcl.ac.uk | London living, drinking tea, wearing lipstick, sleepy.

23 378Followers

699Following

34 494Posts total

14.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave16 Sep

Holding my cute baby while watching videos I took of my cute baby. 1.5K views · 94 likes · 2 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave16 Sep

Giving birth is the original screaming, crying, throwing up. (I had my baby 😌) 7K views · 441 likes · 1 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →

Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave11 Sep

Relatedly, the stack of books in the cover photo of this article makes me chuckle. 1.6K views · 12 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave11 Sep

“Prayer is that activity by which we share our lives with God, willingly telling God our cares and concerns. It is also that activity by which we share in God’s life – participating in his redemptive purposes for this world by voicing them in prayer.” @cjkaltwasser 2.2K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave8 Sep

someone should invent a toothpaste that doesn’t indelibly stain clothing. 1.2K views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Joy Marie Clarkson@joynessthebrave5 Sep

I’ve become more recalcitrant in pregnancy. I have developed a capacity to repel people, to push them away when I am threatened. I have been more confrontative, honest, and unwilling than I have been in my entire life. It is exhilarating and terrifying. I wrote about it today. h

1.3K views · 29 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

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 views1 528this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %6.54%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.20%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 528	924	1.65×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.54%	3.62%	1.81×
Engagement rate	2.20%	1.52%	1.45×

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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

1.3K5 Sep

1.2K8 Sep

2.2K11 Sep

1.6K

7K16 Sep

1.5K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.60%5 Sep

1.80%8 Sep

0.87%11 Sep

0.84%

6.97%16 Sep

6.84%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes89.6%612 in total

Reposts1.0%7 in total

Replies8.1%55 in total

Quotes0.6%4 in total

Bookmarks0.7%5 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.