Daniel Defense engagement report
@DanielDefense - 283K followers on X
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 526 interactions against 283K followers, an engagement rate of 0.186%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 20,444 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 9.6K times each, and 5.47% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.40% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 13% are part of a thread and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.3K interactions, about 16x its own typical post.
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026. Recurring tag: #throwbackthursday.
Compared with accounts its own size
Daniel Defense's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 89% 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 0.186%, Daniel Defense sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 18:00 UTC, and Monday 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 7% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 7% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 195 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Oct 9, 202616x their median
We love this for America, part two! As of today, ATF no longer requires federal approval or registration for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs and AOWs. Congress zeroed the tax. The courts ruled. The DOJ let it stand. Today it's official. https://t.co/H0e57fByxG
- Aug 13, 202611x their median
We love this for America! Congrats to GOA, Silencer Shop Foundation, SilencerCo, PSA, B&T USA, and every state that stood in this fight. Congress zeroed the NFA tax on suppressors and SBRs last year. Last week, the courts moved closer to catching up, ruling the registration scheme built around that tax no longer holds up. This is what happens when gun owners show up. Keep fighting. Honor God. Defend Freedom.®
- Sep 21, 20268.5x their median
In case you didn't know our stance: Honor God. Defend Freedom.® https://t.co/88oLyll4Y9
- Jul 30, 20266.6x their median
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- Jul 1, 20264.8x their median
Viewer reached out to me to share their experience with DD customer service. He had a rifle detonate (suspected an obstruction according to him) and Daniel Defense replaced the entire rifle, no questions asked 🇺🇸🤌🏽 Figured y'all would appreciate the photos of the post kaboom (it's a technical term) BCG & sheared upper 👀 #DanielDefense #kaboom #ar15 #CustomerService
- Sep 29, 20264.0x their median
Proof that short doesn't mean weak. The DDM4 PDW is compact and fully capable. https://t.co/rH9Lh9RKoH
- Jul 6, 20263.2x their median
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- Sep 28, 20262.9x their median
The "if I could only have one". Happy MK18 Monday. MK18 setup and photo from @TX_SUPERIOR https://t.co/YVIrZMvNie
- Jun 29, 20262.3x their median
You already know the name. You already know the reputation. So why isn't it in your lineup yet? MK18 SBR setup and photo from @freedomtradingx https://t.co/EJjdHc7lVK
- Sep 11, 20262.8x their median
Did we forget? Twenty-five years is a long time. A new generation grew up only knowing 9/11 as a date in a history book, not a gut punch that stopped the whole country cold. Did we forget the firefighters walking up the stairs everyone else was running down? The passengers on Flight 93 who chose to fight? The blood drive lines that wrapped around the block? Neighbors who agreed on nothing, checking on each other anyway. A country that stood shoulder to shoulder, no red, no blue, just American. You don't need a tragedy to show up for the people around you. We just have to choose it instead of waiting for the worst day of our lives to remind us. Never forget isn't a slogan. It's a decision.
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 526 interactions against 283K followers, an engagement rate of 0.186%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 20,444 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 9.6K times each, and 5.47% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.40% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 13% are part of a thread and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.3K interactions, about 16x its own typical post.
- What is Daniel Defense's engagement rate on X?
- Daniel Defense (@DanielDefense) has an engagement rate of 0.186%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 283,174 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.186%, Daniel Defense sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,374 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 @DanielDefense have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @DanielDefense post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.6 posts per day across the measured window.