Diane Swonk engagement report
@DianeSwonk - 208K followers on X
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 104 interactions against 208K followers, an engagement rate of 0.05%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% 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 7.0K times each, and 1.49% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.36% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 31% carry an image or video and 41% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 894 interactions, about 8.6x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fomc, #newprofilepic, #oott.
Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026. Recurring tags: #fomc, #newprofilepic, #oott.
Compared with accounts its own size
Diane Swonk's engagement rate beats 47% 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 54% 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 0.05%, Diane Swonk sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,475 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
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 16:00 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% | 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 | 31% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 41% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 31% 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.
- 41% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 1045 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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 1, 20268.6x their median
French 10-year bond yields are the highest relative to similarly-dated German bunds since the European debt crisis 14 years ago. France's borrowing costs have risen above those of Italy and Greece, with the nation facing one of the biggest fiscal deficits in the EU. https://t.co/B6uCiQy1Fg
- Oct 3, 20267.0x their median
MERCX: “.. Everyone is bidding against each other for the physical oil that is still available. The cost of shipping 2 million barrels from West Africa to China is going vertical. Yesterday alone, it jumped 17.6% to $27.22 per barrel.” https://t.co/gGZSZeNTa6
- Oct 7, 20263.0x their median
We have posted the minutes from the #FOMC meeting held September 15-16, 2026: https://t.co/OOgu25FzQu
- Oct 6, 20262.6x their median
When public debt grows, default risk can jump suddenly. Our new paper with @ojblanchard1 and @pmbruera finds that higher fiscal uncertainty reduces (!) the range of debt levels where self-fulfilling defaults can happen. It's been years in the making. https://t.co/7GjhSou4Fu https://t.co/tCkojho7WK
- Sep 10, 20262.0x their median
The producer price index jumped 0.4% in August on higher energy prices, in-line with expectations. That is prior to the recent surge in oil and seems somewhat stale. What is more worrisome is where the price hikes were. They were heavily in diesel and heating fuel, the latter tends to get into other prices with a lag and can be extremely broad based. More importantly for the Fed, regardless of what the CPI shows tomorrow, the components that feed into services inflation in the PCE measure of inflation were hot and persistent. That is yet another reason that the Fed will need to raise rates. The bond market is already in disarray and would be much harder on the economy than if the Fed fails to act. The longer it waits, the more it may have to do in the future. Inflation burns adds to inequality and is highly destabilizing in its own right.
- Sep 9, 20261.9x their median
🤔I had a forecast that the yield on the 10 year would easily cross 5% by year-end. We are uncomfortably close.
- Sep 4, 20261.8x their median
Political pressure on the Fed to cut rates with inflation smoldering and pockets of labor shortages emerging, could up the ante on a September hike. The August inflation report has taken on even more weight. However, even a hold could look political short of a collapse in inflation. That is bad for the bond market, where yields have already soared. Record debt issuance, elevated inflation & the competition for debt - via a surge in covering debt & private debt for data centers construction - are all putting upward pressure on yields.
- Sep 11, 20261.7x their median
🔥CPI inflation jumped 0.4% and held at a 3.4% gain from a year ago. Core CPI, which exclude food & energy, rose a hotter than expected 0.3%. The gains were heavily in services, a problem for the Fed. The super core services rose a wicked hot 0.5% and were up 3% from a year ago. That marks an acceleration from July. Gains were broad based. Notable double-digit gains in in-home health care. The care economy was hit hardest by the loss in immigrant workers, which hit another cliff in late July due to the loss in the Temporary Protected Status of Haitian workers. Those gains coupled with yesterday’s hot PPI report suggest the PCE index, the Fed’s target, will rise 0.4% in August; the core will rise 0.3%. That will push the annual rise in those figures to 3.8 and 3.4%, respectively. That is too hot and still well above the Fed’s 2% target. Pressures continue to build in the pipeline in both goods and service sector prices. The ISM pricing component accelerated again this year. Manufacturing pressures are high; services were higher yet. Goods will get an extra lift from the recent surge in diesel prices. They hit a new record in recent days and show up in just about everything that is shipped. Limited refining capacity and damage to the capacity in Russia is adding the upward pressure to those prices and prompted them to decouple from oil prices. The Fed will begin hiking in September, removing what it gave us in rate cuts in late 2025. We now expect three rate hikes by early 2026. The probability that the vote will be unanimous just rose. That would provide a much needed boost to the Fed’s inflation-fighting credibility, something the bond market is craving. The Fed controls overnight short-term rate. The bond vigilantes control the longer-term interest rates, and they have grown nervous.
- Sep 23, 20261.7x their median
Export bans on diesel look more likely than not. The research is not reassuring on this. Any short-term drop in prices could cause whiplash and push prices even higher as refineries shift to where the money is and parts of the US rely on diesel imports, which will rise with the loss of US production. That is prior to a pipeline of diesel costs that has yet to course its way through the economy. We will be feeling that in as soon as this month but also in October and November, export ban or not. It is less visible that prices at the gas pump but more disperse; it hits nearly every thing that is farmed, manufactured and shipped; it shows up as higher inflation in goods and services. Hence, @federalreserve Governor Barr’s comments today, and other Fed speakers this week reveal a more hawkish tenor than we heard at the press conference - and it was not dovish. Much like uncertainty, shocks have gone from being episodic - one and done - to endemic - they keep on coming, like the drumbeat of an approaching army. Hence, the about face on rate hikes by the Fed. We are building muscle memory on inflation at same time firms have become more opportunistic in how they set prices, with less visible stickers and prices tied to individual consumer preferences. All that data on how we spend and what prompts us to spend on impulse purchases is coursing its way through the economy when inflation is already elevated. Warsh wanted markets to inform the Fed. They now have nearly four rate hikes priced in between now and June 2027. October 2026 is now in play. The odds on October 2027 are rising as well, which would add to those hikes. The 5-year Treasury bond auction went badly today. The 5-yr yield crossed 5%, its highest level since 2006. Investors demanded compensation to absorb the supply, with no clear end to inflation in sight. The 10-year crossed 5.1%, still highest since July 2007. The Fed controls the very short end of the curve. The bond vigilantes control the rest of the curve. How do we lower rates? Derail inflation and/or reduce our reliance on government debt. The latter is not being discussed - Congress isn’t even in session. That leaves derailing inflation. The catch? The Fed cannot pump oil or reverse aging demographics. So, it has to hammer other prices. Lowering relative prices is no easy task. The path between here and price stability is littered with pot holes.
- Sep 26, 2026
Food for thought. Historically, the CPI has run hotter than the PCE, which the Fed targets. That relationship has flipped, notably on core CPI and PCE. The nonfood and non-energy measure of PCE are a full percent HIGHER than core CPI. Why? First, are shelter costs, which have cooled. They have a larger weight in the core CPI than core CPI. Second, are some measurement issues that the BEA is working to improve and will shave 0.2% give or take to Y/Y PCE with benchmark revisions next week. Third, and most important. The PCE better captures health car costs when they are rising rapidly than the CPI. Those costs are rising so fast that many employers have slowed wage gains to deal with the jump. We have not seen the gap anywhere near its current spread since 1983. Those costs are particularly hard for the Fed to reign-in. Instead, it must hammer other more cyclically sensitive prics to offset those increases. That is more painful than the near immaculate disinflation the Fed laid out with the press conference and forecasts after it raised rates for the first time since 2023 in September.
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 104 interactions against 208K followers, an engagement rate of 0.05%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% 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 7.0K times each, and 1.49% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.36% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 31% carry an image or video and 41% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 894 interactions, about 8.6x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #fomc, #newprofilepic, #oott.
- What is Diane Swonk's engagement rate on X?
- Diane Swonk (@DianeSwonk) has an engagement rate of 0.05%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 208,202 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.05%, Diane Swonk sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,475 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 @DianeSwonk have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 47% 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 @DianeSwonk post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.33 posts per day across the measured window.