Dwight Garner engagement report
@DwightGarner - 49K followers on X
Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 21, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 2 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 6 interactions against 49K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Posts are seen about 1.3K times each, and 0.459% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.67% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 252x its own typical post. Only 2 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 21, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.012%, Dwight Garner sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
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 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 0% 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.
- 100% 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 115 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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
- Feb 4, 2026252x their median
It seems like only yesterday that nearly every American newspaper, dozens and dozens of them, even in mid-size cities, ran book reviews by local critics. The alt-weeklies (I wrote for many of them) were everywhere and had feisty and boisterous book sections. Time, Newsweek and other weeklies had serious critics who mattered to the conversation. All this is gone. The stamping out of the Washington’s Post’s excellent book section - one of the last standing - ends an era. It’s a turning point in America's literature, which can’t thrive without serious and ardent criticism - aka public talk, back and forth, between competing voices, in something like real time. The silence out there is good for no one. Gloom suddenly feels like eclipse.
- Feb 5, 202632x their median
In the 1960s, a good first novel might receive 90 individual newspaper reviews in America and England, Reynolds Price wrote in his memoir “Ardent Spirits.” By 2009, this year “Ardent Spirits” was issued, he reckoned the number had dropped to 20 at best. What would it be now? Two? Three? #ripwashpostbookworld
- Apr 21, 202017x their median
Got out of bed (briefly) to write this. https://t.co/e562fTz0y7
- Sep 2, 202314x their median
I’m in Dwight Garner’s new, excellent food memoir, and he’s in my Bernie book. So it appears the past actually happened—I didn’t dream it up https://t.co/NJs4KJvYHv
- Dec 18, 202011x their median
Thank you, @indiaknight (from the TLS). https://t.co/6C2VZFqkXx
- Sep 11, 202611x their median
I’m thrilled that this hilarious and subversive book, long out of print, is finally back in a new edition - and that my essay about it helped spur this salvage project on. https://t.co/rBKhyfbxJX https://t.co/qkvVWMqMWd
- Feb 4, 202011x their median
One writer’s business card. https://t.co/3eMiTSttzo
- Dec 5, 20189.5x their median
Beautiful Maggie Roche memorial concert tonight at the Sheen Center. Tufts of hair at bottom right belong to Loudon Wainwright III. https://t.co/c83JUtTces
- Apr 20, 20208.7x their median
Moe's, the great Berkeley bookstore, needs help. https://t.co/qj5jfsQX1O
- Oct 14, 20198.0x their median
RIP Bruce LeFavour, my father-in-law. A lovely obit from @kseelye https://t.co/59A2AnPUEH
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 6 interactions against 49K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Posts are seen about 1.3K times each, and 0.459% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.67% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 252x its own typical post. Only 2 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is Dwight Garner's engagement rate on X?
- Dwight Garner (@DwightGarner) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 2 original posts from the last 30 days against 48,942 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.012%, Dwight Garner sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,798 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 @DwightGarner have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @DwightGarner post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.07 posts per day across the measured window.