lemn sissay OBE FRSL ✓

@lemnsissay · London Manchester Addis · joined 14 Nov 2009

Writer. Trustee: @FactoryIntl Trustee: @GoldFSF VP: @FoundlingMuseum

98 370Followers

3 233Following

52 846Posts total

11.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views2 649this account1 456median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.69%this account4.50%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.19%this account1.88%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 649	1 456	1.82×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.69%	4.50%	0.60×
Engagement rate	0.19%	1.88%	0.10×

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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

3.3K29 Aug

2.6K1 Sep

3.1K3 Sep

2.6K4 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

0.03%29 Aug

0.19%1 Sep

1.49%3 Sep

1.24%4 Sep

0.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.88%.

What the audience does

Likes88.2%75 in total

Reposts7.1%6 in total

Replies2.4%2 in total

Quotes1.2%1 in total

Bookmarks1.2%1 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

@lemnsissay Beautiful shoes 13 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 I will be reading poems on Saturday at an old school poetry reading at The Serpentine Gallery, 4pm on Saturday alongside poets Rachael Allen, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Karen McCarthy Woolf. Come along. It's the closing weekend of Picture Making, Cecily Brown’s first major 2.6K views · 28 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 I am better although it is strange to be out in the wilds. I love how times change and how the world has gotten smaller allowing us to benefit from the skills of a wider https://t.co/7zbQUT93WL my childhood I would have visited a cobblers, specialists in mending shoes. This h 3.1K views · 43 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 I would love to know what you think of this: Crossing the Chanel with Claudia Schiffer #claudiaschiffer #ellenvonunwerth https://t.co/qfflhIdtyb 2.6K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 google 'underated movies' for a whole new set. 3.3K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Aug 2026 "How do you do it?" said night "How do you wake and shine?" "I keep it simple." said light "One day at a time" https://t.co/9gAgFVvg0S 0 views · 8.9K likes · 2.5K reposts · 264 replies 21 Apr 2019