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Dave Kennedy engagement report

@HackingDave - 233K followers on X

Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 11, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.045%
of 233K followers
Per impression
1.30%
8.1K views on a typical post
Reach
3.48%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
106
interactions (median)
Saved
0.012%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.2/day
active 30% of days
Peak time
01:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 106 interactions against 233K followers, an engagement rate of 0.045%. Posts are seen about 8.1K times each, and 1.30% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.48% 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, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 8% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 31K interactions, about 288x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #webinar, #wehackhealth, #ai.

Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 11, 2026. Recurring tags: #webinar, #wehackhealth, #ai.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.045%, Dave Kennedy sits above the 25th percentile of the 72,347 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.017% to 0.1%.

p100.002%
p250.017%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.501%
p902.08%
p99109.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 72,347 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 49,898 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 percentile0.017%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.501%
90th percentile2.08%
99th percentile109.8%

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 01:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 01:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 01:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video65% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link4% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 65% 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.
  • 4% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 160 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

  • Sep 8, 2026288x their median

    It’s official! The live-action film of The Legend of Zelda, currently in production, will be titled The Legend of Zelda. The film is planned to be released in theatres worldwide on April 30, 2027. #TheLegendofZeldaMovie #NintendoDirect https://t.co/z1sH9DXzkK

    26K4.0K332566815K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 2026265x their median

    This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. Perfect use of free will. https://t.co/vhGMbKQ0Nl

    25K2.0K3412341.2M viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 2026104x their median

    It feels like OpenAI has nerfed GPT Astra. just look at this difference. the left one was built at launch of GPT Astra and the right one was built right now. https://t.co/kOiftSKwrX

    10K3194571541.2M viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20262.6x their median

    We're officially at Hell's Front Porch in Ohio. 😂🌡 https://t.co/yEwfp0lOZH

    22728111017K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20262.6x their median

    About to go on the news.... massive storm ripping through, right before I go on, power kicks out. I am so prepared for this. Everything on backup UPS and generator kicked right on. Didn't miss a beat. I'm a professionallll

    249320111K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 20262.0x their median

    Haven't watched the apple event, but let me guess - better camera, new colors, faster processor, and maybe better battery life? #Innovation

    152450219K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20261.8x their median

    This is my happy place. Drove through the metro parks - whole group of like 15 kids stormed the car, I sent smoke to the vents and they were all smiling and cheering. Love this car! https://t.co/UrwGDDYvIi

    17351608.4K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20261.5x their median

    Cruise time https://t.co/Z2XtPkgX2K

    14531017.2K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 2026

    Astra is pretty incredible. Burned 27% usage building this highly graphical based airsoft game for my airsoft buddies. Multiplayer, browser based - lot of fun! https://t.co/iy15GBdM73

    105223214K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 2026

    Saw Matrix on tv - decided to watch… now in my theater room with my kids watching matrix 2…. 3 tomorrow, 4 on Saturday. Can’t stop 😂

    9802913.1K 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.

Recurring topics

#webinar#wehackhealth#ai#aws#innovation

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 106 interactions against 233K followers, an engagement rate of 0.045%. Posts are seen about 8.1K times each, and 1.30% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.48% 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, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 65% carry an image or video and 8% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 31K interactions, about 288x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #webinar, #wehackhealth, #ai.

What is Dave Kennedy's engagement rate on X?
Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) has an engagement rate of 0.045%, based on the median interactions across 26 original posts from the last 30 days against 232,760 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.045%, Dave Kennedy sits above the 25th percentile of the 72,347 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 @HackingDave have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @HackingDave post?
Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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