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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.008%
of 530K followers
Per impression
0.698%
6.1K views on a typical post
Reach
1.15%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
42
interactions (median)
Saved
0.033%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.57/day
active 13% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Wednesday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,555 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,929 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.5%

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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video4% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link96% 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

    1.1K464472090K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.1K26234718K viewsView on X
  • 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

    40910015214K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2175412012K viewsView on X
  • 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

    159732388.9K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1704315211K viewsView on X
  • Oct 14, 20265.1x their median

    How State Prosecutors Can Send Tony Fauci To Rot In Prison https://t.co/6cce5GUmHT

    812810346.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20265.0x their median

    Me @NRO: Heritage Americanism Is Massively Overrated and Counterproductive https://t.co/n2iaO2LMO9

    1421841926K viewsView on X
  • 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

    141353111K viewsView on X
  • Oct 14, 20264.1x their median

    Dems Push Medicare For Illegals After Claiming Medicare For Illegals Was A GOP Hoax https://t.co/tYvzxCfXML

    11158125.4K viewsView on X

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.

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