The Federalist engagement report
@FDRLST - 530K followers on X
Measured over 68 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 42 interactions against 530K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 68 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 19,932 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 6.1K times each, and 0.698% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 68 posts sampled, 96% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 39x its own typical post.
Measured over 68 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Federalist's engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 39% 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 0.008%, The Federalist sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,555 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 | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 13:00 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 | 4% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 96% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 4% 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.
- 96% 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 112 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
- Oct 8, 202539x their median
"Anytime a government goes to a social media platform, Google, YouTube, Twitter, whatever, and they tell someone you need to take this down because it's hate speech or misinformation or whatever fancy label they want to throw on speech they don't like. First off, those tech companies should tell them to take a hike; we don't censor anyone. We're a platform, we're not a content company. And then number two, I think they should have to disclose it to the public and the people who were targeted" -@seanmdav
- Aug 26, 202633x their median
Mollie Hemingway: A functioning society rewards good and punishes evil. The three dead children are the victims in the Lindsay Clancy case, not their mother. Citizens must recognize that "society cannot operate if people are not punished for wrongdoing." https://t.co/mbAsgXHQUo
- Sep 16, 202613x their median
Hemingway: Fewer Americans would hold favorable views of socialism if we were properly educating people about the horrors of Communism. https://t.co/IP8qDNvT3C
- Aug 26, 20266.7x their median
Mollie Hemingway: People are exhausted with men taking over women's sports. Former NBA players claiming they will enter the WNBA draft is a response to the trans insanity we have been dealing with for years. https://t.co/QsZPZW0TaG
- Sep 16, 20266.3x their median
You Know The AI Panic Is An Op Because Top Dems All Have The Same Talking Points https://t.co/LagRsK96lu
- Aug 26, 20265.5x their median
Hemingway: Abdul El-Sayed compared horrific sex-change surgeries on children with circumcision. It's unforgivable for him to be that blithe about "trans" mutilation procedures. https://t.co/T08fgnw8Wg
- Oct 14, 20265.1x their median
How State Prosecutors Can Send Tony Fauci To Rot In Prison https://t.co/6cce5GUmHT
- Sep 16, 20265.0x their median
Me @NRO: Heritage Americanism Is Massively Overrated and Counterproductive https://t.co/n2iaO2LMO9
- Oct 15, 20264.3x their median
Federalist CEO Sean Davis cuts through the AI fearmongering from tech oligarchs on "Gutfeld!" "I worry that Anthropic may not have the profit margins that they thought they were going to have," and they are just trying to save themselves by pretending AI is a "nuclear weapon." https://t.co/2sNbP35Fxj
- Oct 14, 20264.1x their median
Dems Push Medicare For Illegals After Claiming Medicare For Illegals Was A GOP Hoax https://t.co/tYvzxCfXML
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 42 interactions against 530K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 68 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 19,932 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 6.1K times each, and 0.698% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 68 posts sampled, 96% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 39x its own typical post.
- What is The Federalist's engagement rate on X?
- The Federalist (@FDRLST) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 68 original posts from the last 30 days against 530,438 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.008%, The Federalist sits above the 10th percentile of the 201,555 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 @FDRLST have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @FDRLST post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.57 posts per day across the measured window.