The Defiant engagement report
@DefiantNews - 682K followers on X
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 28 interactions against 682K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 13K times each, and 0.207% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 57% carry an image or video, 17% are part of a thread and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 115 interactions, about 4.1x its own typical post.
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 25, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Defiant's engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 17% 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 0.004%, The Defiant sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 20264.1x their median
🚨 DeFi holds close to $100B in TVL but less than 2% of it is covered by anything resembling insurance. @Firelightfi's Connor Sullivan argues the real problem isn't only missing coverage, but also coverage nobody outside the deal can verify. Read more here: https://t.co/1Bwo9I4bhO
- Aug 13, 20264.0x their median
👀 JUST IN @ether_fi is adding tokenized stock and metals trading, portfolio-wide borrowing through an Aave market, and fiat rails in 30+ currencies to its app. The release also introduces programmatic $ETHFI buybacks funded from every revenue line. Read more here: https://t.co/9bVC0CzKFI
- Aug 6, 20263.4x their median
Since 2023, @HesabPay, a digital payments platform built on @Algorand, has grown from serving just a few thousand people to reaching over 1 million people. Our interview with @AlgoFoundation's Matt Keller (@mattkeller1) and blockchain expert/World Food Programme Project Manager Suzana Moreno at Algorand's Humanitarian Payments Council on what made it scale.
- Aug 24, 20263.0x their median
Coinbase Tokenized Stocks are live on @base: NVDAc, METAc, AAPLc, GOOGLc. Non-US only. ~$4.5M minted on day one, $3M of DEX liquidity, $10.8M in 24h volume. Composable from the start: @AerodromeFi @aave @MorphoLabs @eulerfinance @0xProject @1inch @CoWSwap @wasabi_protocol @SteakhouseFi @gauntlet_xyz @BitgetWallet @chainlink is the oracle. Its feeds run 24/5 while the tokens trade 24/7. Read more here: https://t.co/Cw7ZtuURS5
- Aug 11, 20262.8x their median
The GPU market in 2026: People posting on Twitter "I need 24 H200s, starting yesterday." Right now, there's no marketplace or transparency. Viktoriya Hying (@viktoriya0x) from @b3labs wants to change that, building the Airbnb for compute: Owner-operated GPUs, hosted in Oregon, matched with demand from AI labs and universities from day one. Watch the full conversation with @CamiRusso on The Defiant 👇
- Aug 17, 20262.6x their median
Compound @Compound_xyz led DeFi lending in 2020. @Aave now holds $14.8B in deposits to Compound's $1.2B. It looks like Compound is ready to charge again. There's now a $52M DAO-approved budget and a new team from Coinbase Custody, Anchorage, NEAR and Maple. The bet is that institutions will pick the oldest codebase in lending. Read more here: https://t.co/8oIEvgHmMJ
- Aug 13, 20262.1x their median
DEFI YIELD PROTOCOL NEUTRL PAUSED MINTING AND REDEMPTIONS ON ITS STABLECOIN @Neutrl paused minting and redemptions on NUSD, its $53.3M synthetic dollar, citing circumstances affecting protocol reserves. The team says it acted on advice from legal counsel. It hasn't named a cause, an affected asset or a counterparty. @strata_markets paused its Neutrl market contracts. https://t.co/WWSX3oupUb
- Aug 25, 20262.1x their median
$ZRO is up 12% after @LayerZero_Core unveiled ATLAS, a headless exchange built on its Zero blockchain. Venues plug in and keep 20-65% of the trading fee. 75% of what remains buys and burns ZRO. No launch date yet, and Zero hasn't reached mainnet. Read more here: https://t.co/yzURKgCd9B
- Aug 22, 20261.9x their median
.@EricTrump denies launching a new coin as TRUMP token surges 38% in 24h. MELANIA gained 18.4%. https://t.co/BPgovoVpDW https://t.co/A8FPtkvS5b
- Aug 18, 20261.6x their median
‼️ SEC PROPOSES TOKEN OFFERING RULES The SEC proposed rules today letting token issuers raise $75 million a year with no registration, and shed the "investment contract" label. The agency's Regulation Crypto Assets proposal answers the question a decade of enforcement never did: when a token stops being a security. The answer: when the issuer certifies it has completed or permanently ceased the managerial efforts it promised investors. Read more here: https://t.co/9pq0cnXExh
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.
Buy or sell X accounts - escrow-protected
PlayerSells is an escrow marketplace for X accounts. Every deal is protected, with no middleman risk.
Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 28 interactions against 682K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 13K times each, and 0.207% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 57% carry an image or video, 17% are part of a thread and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 115 interactions, about 4.1x its own typical post.
- What is The Defiant's engagement rate on X?
- The Defiant (@DefiantNews) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 682,302 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, The Defiant sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @DefiantNews have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @DefiantNews post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.9 posts per day across the measured window.