Dan Carlin engagement report
@HardcoreHistory - 429K followers on X
Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 4 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 600 interactions against 429K followers, an engagement rate of 0.14%. Posts are seen about 74K times each, and 0.813% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 17.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 50% are part of a thread and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.4K interactions, about 7.3x its own typical post. Only 4 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 4 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.14%, Dan Carlin sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.1% |
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 16:00 UTC, and Saturday 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 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% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Dec 22, 20257.3x their median
Hi all. I know it's been a long time. Sorry for the wait. Hope it's halfway decent. "Happy Hardcore History Day" https://t.co/y4xaiU2etp https://t.co/jYqOT96TFO
- Jul 30, 20265.9x their median
Soon.
- Jul 31, 20265.3x their median
Happy Hardcore History Day everyone. As usual, thanks for your patience! “Mania for Subjugation IV” https://t.co/1mQKsFkNBi
- May 24, 20264.9x their median
Just a reminder to all that "World War II with Tom Hanks" premiers at 8pm tomorrow on @HISTORY with a 3-episode drop followed by 17 more episodes on a once a week release schedule. I am one of a great many contributors. I hope you'll check it out! #WorldWarIITomHanks @NutopiaTV https://t.co/4RSB94eJmr
- Mar 5, 20264.3x their median
May 25 at 8pm (in the USA)the History channel is debuting its massive Second World War 20-part series "WW2 with Tom Hanks". It's a colossal endeavor with lots of new insights. Includes a FABULOUS group of contributors. I was honored to be a part of it. https://t.co/1Xe25ogHlz
- Jul 5, 20252.7x their median
Just released a Hardcore History Addendum with the son of U.S. Marine (and author) Eugene Sledge. Sledge wrote one of the best combat memoirs from the American side of the Second World War. His son has written the definitive follow up! It's a great talk. https://t.co/OxvShP5B3w
- Jul 22, 20252.6x their median
We are currently "wrestling with the work" on the next Alexander installment.There's usually a time in each show where the creative elements start resembling a Rubic's Cube and the many ways they can be assembled and put together becomes both an addiction and a curse.
- Jun 6, 20252.4x their median
With Marc Maron announcing that he going to wind down his podcast (started in 2009) another old school podcast leaves the scene. The number of folk left is beginning to get very small. I don't blame him though. It's hard to keep doing creative stuff forever and keep it fresh and at a high level. Burnout is a real thing. ...of course it helps if you take a really long time between releases.😂 Our motto around here is: "It's a marathon, not a sprint". But Marc produced at a very high level for a very long time and elevated the medium. Thanks for that MM!
- Jul 23, 20251.9x their median
Thanks @TIME for including us in your top 100 podcast list! https://t.co/GBxwHqU3w2
- Nov 28, 20251.7x their median
I know it's not what you're waiting for. But here's an absolutely fascinating conversation with a nuclear history expert about Harry Truman and a completely new way to look at his role in the dropping of the atomic bombs. https://t.co/IrFvBPOaTP
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 600 interactions against 429K followers, an engagement rate of 0.14%. Posts are seen about 74K times each, and 0.813% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 17.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 4 posts sampled, 50% are part of a thread and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.4K interactions, about 7.3x its own typical post. Only 4 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is Dan Carlin's engagement rate on X?
- Dan Carlin (@HardcoreHistory) has an engagement rate of 0.14%, based on the median interactions across 4 original posts from the last 30 days against 429,295 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.14%, Dan Carlin sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 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 @HardcoreHistory have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @HardcoreHistory post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.43 posts per day across the measured window.