William Dalrymple engagement report
@DalrympleWill - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 43 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 892 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.072%. Measured over 43 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 65K times each, and 1.37% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 43 posts sampled, 77% carry an image or video and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 46K interactions, about 52x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #artefactsunday, #unmasktheun.
Measured over 43 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #artefactsunday, #unmasktheun.
Compared with accounts its own size
William Dalrymple's engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 60% 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 0.072%, William Dalrymple sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Thursday 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% | 53K |
| 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% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 202652x their median
Palestinian artist Khaled Hourani https://t.co/ebzMtw16nw
- Aug 27, 202642x their median
BREAKING: President Trump officially changes the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. "If you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean." 👀 🇺🇸 https://t.co/OZOmfibisP
- Aug 29, 202620x their median
"The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity" - Anthony Bourdain on the dehumanizing coverage of Palestinians 🇵🇸 in the media. https://t.co/59QcAueE1W
- Aug 27, 202617x their median
Trump just posted his own presidential ranking, putting himself in the “greatest” category above Lincoln, Washington, FDR, and every other president. https://t.co/ZxcckuQVwL
- Aug 28, 202616x their median
If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.
- Aug 29, 20269.8x their median
.@AndyBurnham sends his first UK military plane to Israel since becoming PM This A400M flew from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to Tel Aviv on Wednesday. It stopped in Israel for an hour before returning to base The A400M can carry a payload of 81,600 lbs or 116 fully equipped soldiers https://t.co/ElPZUG0DY1
- Aug 27, 20269.0x their median
🚨Aid coalition chief: Israel blocks wheelchairs, prosthetics, watermelons, and fresh produce from entering Gaza Athena Rayburn, executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies, which represents more than 100 humanitarian and development NGOs operating in the occupied Palestinian territory, detailed Israel’s sweeping restrictions on aid during a UN Security Council briefing Wednesday. 🔹Israel rejects scissors, crutches, wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs as “dual-use,” bars medical specialists and restricts engine oil so severely that its price has risen to 45 times normal levels, bringing aid operations to “an absolute breaking point,” Rayburn said. 🔹Israeli authorities have also rejected watermelon and onions under an unpublished “humanitarian policy,” deregistered more than 30 international aid groups and repeatedly moved the supposedly fixed Yellow Line, cutting access to at least 85 water points, schools and health clinics. “Humanitarian assistance, by its nature, cannot be conditioned,” Rayburn said, noting Israel was shrinking “almost daily” the physical space in Gaza where aid groups can operate. https://t.co/ozVWg9Ayvm
- Jan 5, 202628x their median
Israeli politician Hadar Muchtar calls for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities in the West Bank to build more Israeli settlements. Via: translatinghebrew48 https://t.co/eOlmZpM9Y9
- Aug 26, 20264.3x their median
A year ago, the IPC report determined that Gaza was facing a famine. Senior UN officials immediately backed the findings, and the UN’s humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, even called the evidence “irrefutable.” Now, new UNICEF data paints a completely different picture. We are waiting for @UNReliefChief Fletcher’s apology and for the UN to explain itself.
- Aug 23, 20264.0x their median
55-year-old Palestinian gynecologist, Dima Amin, remains in Israeli detention despite suffering a heart attack while detained and undergoing a cardiac catheterization at a Jerusalem hospital. Israeli occupation forces abducted her from home in Ramallah and held for around 36 hours without her family or lawyer knowing her whereabouts. Despite her medical condition, an Israeli military court extended her detention for five more days over social media posts attributed to her.
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 892 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.072%. Measured over 43 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 65K times each, and 1.37% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 11.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 43 posts sampled, 77% carry an image or video and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 46K interactions, about 52x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #artefactsunday, #unmasktheun.
- What is William Dalrymple's engagement rate on X?
- William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) has an engagement rate of 0.072%, based on the median interactions across 43 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,238,970 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.072%, William Dalrymple sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,654 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 @DalrympleWill have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @DalrympleWill post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 11.07 posts per day across the measured window.