Glenn Diesen engagement report
@Glenn_Diesen - 193K followers on X
Measured over 64 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 12, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 574 interactions against 193K followers, an engagement rate of 0.299%. Measured over 64 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 15K times each, and 3.81% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.79% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 64 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 64% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 18K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.
Measured over 64 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 12, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Glenn Diesen's engagement rate beats 78% 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 81% 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 0.299%, Glenn Diesen sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
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 14:00 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 | 98% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 64% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 98% 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.
- 64% 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 240 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 18, 202331x their median
- John J. Mearsheimer: "Diesen has written a terrific book about the emerging world order... A must read for anyone who wants to understand the great shift in the global distribution of power that is taking place before our eyes" - Ambassador Chas Freeman: "A most thoughtful and realistic account of the evolution of the world order" - Sergey Karaganov: "A must read to understand the complexity of the Ukraine War as a historical inflection point" - Richard Sakwa: "A corrective to mainstream Western narratives, providing a powerful conceptual framework for critique. A brilliant foundational work" - Clare Daly: “A superb book! Diesen dismantles the war propaganda and outlines why the Ukraine War is a symptom of a collapsing world order" https://t.co/UEvvIG5gAX
- Sep 12, 202619x their median
Putin argues that Europe was buying Russian gas for $150, and now the Europeans will soon pay $1500. * This has been celebrated by the EU as 'energy security'... The West's wars against Russia and Iran have been an unnecessary and predictable disaster, why is there no course correction? Replace the hostile military blocs with an inclusive security architecture based on indivisible security in both Europe and the Middle East - and put an end to this tragedy. Empty moralisme and fake narratives about how evil our adversaries are will not save Europe's industries and it's future.
- Sep 2, 202616x their median
Israel's national security minister, Ben-Gvir, posted this AI video of Palestinians being sent into a slaughter house on an industrial conveyor belt. It reached 4 million views before he removed it. https://t.co/9CHVNCq32J https://t.co/wDZZ95ftDP
- Oct 9, 202614x their median
Cruising through China at 350 km/h on high-speed rail. You really have to see China to appreciate the incredible development here. "Catching up" belongs to the past... ** Napoleon allegedly (though doubtfully) said, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world” https://t.co/tcxY20y3be
- Oct 7, 202612x their median
Merz is pushing the narrative that Russia is at war with Germany. Extremely reckless but it serves his objective of military Keynsianism and it distracts from his disasterous policies. https://t.co/FQ6njiQWs0
- Sep 10, 202612x their median
Trump's promise to give every American $5,000 if the Republicans win the midterm elections is almost a copy/paste of the movie Idiocracy (2006)—the premise being a future society that became increasingly stupid and anti-intellectual. https://t.co/u8GoAC4tUC
- Oct 9, 202611x their median
Marco Rubio: "We would never violate the sovereignty of any country" ** The moral self-righteousness is utterly impervious to reality https://t.co/GwZJahaQCl
- Oct 7, 20269.0x their median
Venezuela's second largest oil refinery has been shut down following explosions. https://t.co/DsiN6zeE3R
- Sep 9, 20268.4x their median
In 1997, Biden mocked Russia’s security concerns over NATO expansion, dismissing Moscow’s warning that it would have to respond by aligning more closely with China instead. Biden sarcastically suggested that Russia could also align itself with Iran. https://t.co/GjcVJfB9i5
- Oct 5, 20268.1x their median
The Norwegian media is uniquely ridiculous in its smear campaigns. When I tell people abroad about the brazen and lazy propaganda, they often assume I am exaggerating. This week there have been two more smear pieces published about me. The first story in the media is about my tweet on the results of Russia’s parliamentary election, in which I wrote: “Big win for United Russia. President Putin's party, United Russia, won 57.83% of the vote in the parliamentary election, which is a significant increase from 49.8% in 2021”. In short, I merely stated the election results, which are important as United Russia now has a majority in parliament. The newspaper reported that I was “cheering” Putin’s victory and “congratulating” Russia. Another newspaper wrote that I was spreading Russian propaganda because I made the election seem legitimate. Another absurd story was published today with the headline: “Several cases against Norwegian Russia researcher”. The article is about accusations submitted to my university regarding an alleged breach of ethical research practices, which is intended to give the reader the impression that my research and publications have violated research ethics standards. What the newspaper does not mention is that anyone can send a letter with accusations to the university, and there is no shortage of radical activists seeking to silence academics. However, these accusations mean nothing when there is no substance to the accusations, and for that reason these accusations did not lead anywhere. However, such accusations are catnip for journalists who engage in smear campaigns and do not mind misleading their readers. The newspaper cites a smear piece in the complaint to prove that I may have breached ethics standards: I had cited US Ambassador William Burns (who later became the CIA Director) as he had written in 2008 that if NATO attempted to pull Ukraine into the NATO orbit – Russia would possibly intervene military even though this is not something Russia would want to do. In the smear piece against me, it is claimed that Burns did not imply anything of the sort and he did not even use the word “intervene” (https://t.co/wou97L7vYj). However, anyone can go into the cable to read that Burns wrote: “In Ukraine, these include fears that the issue could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene… Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face” (https://t.co/XwqX2tyJF6). The propagandists are citing their own smear pieces as evidence. However, it does not matter that all these accusations are built on lies, because from now on journalists can refer to me as the academic who has been ‘accused’ of spreading propaganda and violating ethical research standards. The process is the punishment, so it does not matter that the accusations have no substance. The most absurd smear piece came last year, when one of the largest newspapers wrote that I had been exposed for participating in an “influence operation.” In reality, I had attended a conference devoted to the 200th birthday of Immanuel Kant in his place of birth, Kaliningrad. My speech, published on my Substack (https://t.co/kLP0Gwu98f), was about the crisis of modernity and questioning the durability of secular morality, yet the journalist insisted that the conference was actually about confronting NATO in the Baltic Sea. The evidence published to prove this was a secret influence operation was a list of foreign guests with the headline “List of possible participants of the event for the Baltic region.” However, it was written in Russian, so it probably looked very incriminating. The timing of the article was interesting as it was more than a year after the conference, although I had just run for parliament, and I had been caught in a large media campaign to discredit me. For context, it is important to note that in Norway, every single member of parliament is in favour of sending weapons to Ukraine, and none are calling for diplomacy with Russia. All the newspapers repeat government talking points and smear any dissent. At least in countries like Germany and France, there is opposition. The complete lack of dissent is believed to reflect their “moral clarity,” as opposed to authoritarian means of keeping the war going. Arguments are never discussed, instead the norm is personal attacks and simplistic rhetoric denouncing critics of NATO’s policies as “pro-Russia” and “anti-Ukrainian”. The vast majority of Ukrainians want a negotiated settlement, yet the media label me “anti-Ukrainian” for suggesting that our government should open diplomatic channels with Russia to resolve the dispute over the European security architecture. Meanwhile, these self-proclaimed “pro-Ukrainians” consistently ignore the will of most Ukrainians, and when they see the manpower shortage, their response is to push for deporting Ukrainian refugees, lowering the conscription age of Ukrainian men, or calling for the forced conscription of Ukrainian women as well. The war propaganda and smear campaigns in this country are characterized by laziness, aggressiveness, and arrogance.
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 574 interactions against 193K followers, an engagement rate of 0.299%. Measured over 64 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 15K times each, and 3.81% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.79% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 64 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video and 64% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 18K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.
- What is Glenn Diesen's engagement rate on X?
- Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) has an engagement rate of 0.299%, based on the median interactions across 64 original posts from the last 30 days against 193,293 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.299%, Glenn Diesen sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,956 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 @Glenn_Diesen have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @Glenn_Diesen post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.23 posts per day across the measured window.