David Corn engagement report
@DavidCornDC - 867K followers on X
Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 867K followers, an engagement rate of 0.139%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,829 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 164K times each, and 0.736% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 18.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 45K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
David Corn's engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 43% 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 0.139%, David Corn sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,037 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.435%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.8% |
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 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 24, 202637x their median
Maxime: You want to know how I ended up here? About two months ago, I recorded a video asking Mayor Mamdani to help open the playground in McKinley Park. It had been closed for almost two years. A few weeks later, the park was finally open. Thank you, Mayor Mamdani. https://t.co/HG77M5zdEl
- Aug 17, 202621x their median
Jihadi Mamdani does not belong as Mayor of NYC. He needs to be denaturalized and sent back home to Uganda. I’ve had enough of his garbage.
- Aug 12, 202620x their median
Everyone knew.
- Aug 12, 202614x their median
WaPo reports Trump secretly funneled almost $1B into the White House “housekeeping” account for renovations. Without asking Congress. Feels like the right day to repost this video & remind him: we’re undoing ALL of it when you’re gone. https://t.co/0MI7dvncWp
- Aug 23, 20269.4x their median
Gardasil HPV vaccine prevents cancer and is on the way to eliminating cervical cancer in many countries RFK Jr said it causes cancer Even by his desperately low standards, this is an absolutely whopping piece of bullshit https://t.co/sq2CEqGsqx
- Aug 18, 20265.9x their median
Jon Ossoff’s sexist attacks on Natalie Harp cross the line. Say what you will about President Trump, but he has always treated women with respect. You can disagree with his politics, but you cannot knock his professionalism and class. Ossoff has a lot to learn.
- Aug 12, 20264.5x their median
Trump: “Iran is going fine, going just absolutely fine. We totally control the Strait of Hormuz. We have control over it. Nobody else, only us.” (This is a lie) https://t.co/4dBxFLRiV3
- Aug 18, 20263.8x their median
Trump said we'd grow "like nobody's ever grown before." Bessent promised 3% growth by the end of 2026. Instead, growth decelerated from 2.8% under Biden to 1.8% thus far this year. My @nytopinion Chart: https://t.co/pRxat8FJeA
- Aug 16, 20263.4x their median
WELKER: How is Trump's pardons of 172 people who assaulted police officers consistent with your pledge to always protect law enforcement? BLANCHE: The president's pardon powers are not limited WELKER: But do you believe it was wrong to pardon people who assaulted police officers on J6? BLANCHE: Absolutely not. That's the president's right
- Aug 11, 20263.2x their median
I think their bobblehead is defective. https://t.co/NhJvPuFhs7
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 867K followers, an engagement rate of 0.139%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,829 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 164K times each, and 0.736% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 18.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 45K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.
- What is David Corn's engagement rate on X?
- David Corn (@DavidCornDC) has an engagement rate of 0.139%, based on the median interactions across 29 original posts from the last 30 days against 867,200 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.139%, David Corn sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,037 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 @DavidCornDC have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 @DavidCornDC post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.87 posts per day across the measured window.