Homeland Security engagement report
@DHSgov - 3.0M followers on X
Measured over 118 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2.5K interactions against 3.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.084%. Measured over 118 original posts, its engagement rate beats 82% of 3,791 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 99K times each, and 2.54% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 10.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 118 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 93K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
Measured over 118 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #hstf.
Compared with accounts its own size
Homeland Security's engagement rate beats 82% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 82% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.084%, Homeland Security sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.434%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Mar 24, 202637x their median
I am grateful for President Trump’s trust in me to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It’s an honor to serve. As @DHSgov Secretary, I’m committed to safeguarding the American people and protecting the homeland. I’ll fight for your family just as I’ll fight for mine. I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with the 260,000 outstanding DHS employees and their families to keep our nation safe. My first priority is to end the partisan fighting and reopen the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a matter of national security. Let’s get to work. 🇺🇸
- Aug 18, 202621x their median
If you’re here illegally, we will hunt you down and send you BACK. ICE is NOT going away. We will continue arresting and deporting illegal aliens from our nation:
- Aug 19, 202620x their median
OMAHA, NEBRASKA: FIVE CHILD PREDATORS ARRESTED. Child predators have nowhere to hide. We will find these disgusting freaks in whatever dark corners they try to cower in. Thank you to @HSIKansasCity for arresting these sickos and keeping our children safe. https://t.co/OuHRcjfn1x
- Aug 24, 202612x their median
HOME SWEET HAITI. On the latest deportation flight back to Haiti, we DEPORTED these dangerous criminals including pedophiles, gang members, drug traffickers, and violent assailants:
- Aug 15, 202611x their median
Illegal aliens DO NOT belong in our nation — and we’re sending them back. Thanks to the brave men and women of ICE, these killers, drunk drivers, sexual assailants, and weapons traffickers have been DEPORTED:
- Aug 18, 202611x their median
DEPORTATIONS ARE SURGING AND WILL CONTINUE. OVER 1 HOUR OF 'LARGE DEPORTATIONS' 🔁🔥 https://t.co/0iaHIKoN1c
- Aug 20, 20269.4x their median
There is NO SANCTUARY for illegal aliens in our nation. If you're here illegally, we will hunt you down, arrest you, and send you BACK. There are NO EXCEPTIONS:
- Aug 17, 20268.3x their median
Our message is clear: illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our nation — and we’re committed to getting them OUT. We will continue delivering on the American People’s mandate to ARREST and DEPORT illegal aliens like these:
- Aug 19, 20268.3x their median
The days of illegal aliens collecting taxpayer-funded benefits are over. President Trump and @SecScottBessent are committed to cutting taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens. This will save Americans BILLIONS, reinstate trust in our tax system, and put Americans first. https://t.co/0vCHPghSDk
- Aug 24, 20268.3x their median
It’s just a series of generational wins after another. https://t.co/et7LkA2VzU
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 2.5K interactions against 3.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.084%. Measured over 118 original posts, its engagement rate beats 82% of 3,791 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 99K times each, and 2.54% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 10.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 118 posts sampled, 67% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 93K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
- What is Homeland Security's engagement rate on X?
- Homeland Security (@DHSgov) has an engagement rate of 0.084%, based on the median interactions across 118 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,009,580 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.084%, Homeland Security sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @DHSgov have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 82% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @DHSgov post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 10.9 posts per day across the measured window.