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Foreign Affairs engagement report

@ForeignAffairs - 947K followers on X

Measured over 97 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 947K followers
Per impression
0.185%
6.0K views on a typical post
Reach
0.63%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
11
interactions (median)
Saved
0.067%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.37/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 11 interactions against 947K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 97 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,899 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 6.0K times each, and 0.185% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.629% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% 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 97 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 359 interactions, about 33x its own typical post.

Measured over 97 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Foreign Affairs's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 15% 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 0.001%, Foreign Affairs sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99156.3%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,701 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 104,204 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile156.3%

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 6%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%53K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%52K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%50K
07:00 UTC-5%54K
08:00 UTC-4%63K
09:00 UTC-3%72K
10:00 UTC-2%75K
11:00 UTC-3%81K
12:00 UTC-2%90K
13:00 UTC-2%98K
14:00 UTC-3%101K
15:00 UTC-2%105K
16:00 UTC-4%102K
17:00 UTC-3%95K
18:00 UTC-1%88K
19:00 UTC-2%83K
20:00 UTC-1%77K
21:00 UTC-1%69K
22:00 UTC-2%60K
23:00 UTC-2%53K
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 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%238K
Monday0%302K
Tuesday-3%302K
Wednesday-1%257K
Thursday-2%250K
Friday-3%259K
Saturday+3%233K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 26, 202633x their median

    In “The Steppe and Its Empires,” Michael Khodarkovsky considers how the history of the Eurasian steppe influences Russia’s behavior in the present day. Read Ayşe Zarakol’s review: https://t.co/uTtJminipM https://t.co/XXeKcVg54V

    2885531349K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202610x their median

    “Ultimately, what Washington wants most is for Iran to interact productively with its neighbors, abandon an illicit nuclear program, and promote the well-being of its people,” writes Nate Swanson. “But like it or not, the Islamic Republic gets a say in what happens next in Iran.” https://t.co/OpnzstD8FR

    41855860K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20269.2x their median

    “The American Middle East is finished,” writes Marc Lynch. “The regional order that has prevailed since 1991 has been one of the many casualties of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.” https://t.co/cLGfJhZNNA

    63282821K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20267.5x their median

    Our September/October 2026 issue is now available online. Start reading here: https://t.co/FvQpkBupd6

    51265130K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20266.7x their median

    “Leaders who fail to confront their new reality are failing their countries,” writes @markhleonard. “It is time to acknowledge that the old order really has disappeared—and to plot a new approach to geopolitics.” https://t.co/GMwKX4GI2s

    4718729.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20266.5x their median

    “If the United States wants to keep itself out of costly conflicts around the world, it may have no choice but to forge closer ties with the new stabilizing powers,” a category that includes countries such as Pakistan and Turkey, writes @asfandyarmir. https://t.co/ENs2JNV4gt

    6263111K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20266.5x their median

    “Thirteen years after Xi Jinping ascended to the top of China’s leadership hierarchy, observers in Washington remain deeply confused about how to assess his rule.” Read @jonczin on how U.S. officials are misreading Xi: https://t.co/z3HrtH9TXi

    58103012K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20265.4x their median

    “With the United Nations and other multilateral bodies proving unable to mitigate modern conflicts, nontraditional powers are beginning to fill the gaps by engaging in order-stabilizing statecraft,” writes @asfandyarmir. https://t.co/ENs2JNV4gt

    3814708.5K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20265.0x their median

    “Conflict management should not be conflated with conflict resolution,” write @NeilQuilliam1 and @SanamVakil. “History suggests that problems arise when leaders replace strategy with a series of narrow bargains.” https://t.co/SAS9s9kF2o

    3616219.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20264.3x their median

    China is turning its “inability to produce the food it needs” into geopolitical leverage, write @welshce and @BrianTHart. “By exploiting its importance to food-producing countries, Beijing has found growing opportunities to pressure its rivals.” https://t.co/ORI5YE4FMQ

    336717.4K 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 11 interactions against 947K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 97 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,899 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 6.0K times each, and 0.185% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.629% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% 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 97 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 359 interactions, about 33x its own typical post.

What is Foreign Affairs's engagement rate on X?
Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 97 original posts from the last 30 days against 946,714 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Foreign Affairs sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 @ForeignAffairs have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @ForeignAffairs post?
Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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