Hudson Institute engagement report
@HudsonInstitute - 128K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 23 interactions against 128K followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,444 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 2.9K times each, and 0.798% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.0K interactions, about 44x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Hudson Institute's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 36% 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 0.018%, Hudson Institute sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
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 17:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 38% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 74% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 38% 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.
- 74% 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 326 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 28, 202644x their median
Since WWII, Japan has been constitutionally bound to pacifism. But Tokyo has recently doubled its defense budget, signed agreements that allow it to deploy its military overseas, and lifted its prohibition on exporting weapons. Japan's strategy benefits the US, increasing the durability of American power in the Indo-Pacific. The United States should help Tokyo accelerate these reforms because a stronger Japan that is closely linked with other US allies and partners in the region is essential to deterring China, @njcsnyder and @DavidSacks write. Read in @ForeignAffairs: https://t.co/d9eOsZi8i6
- Sep 25, 20264.7x their median
"The biggest threat to humanity isn't rogue AI; it is AI controlled by China." In @WSJopinion, @ChairmanG warns that if the United States does not "pace the AI frontier," the CCP will use the technology to take Taiwan and displace America as the world's dominant superpower. https://t.co/nipI7gLCDJ
- Sep 28, 20264.3x their median
Greenland has been strategically important to the US and the defense of the North Atlantic since World War II. The new security deal doesn't fundamentally change the framework of the US-Greenland-Denmark agreement but instead builds on it in three key ways. 1. It accounts for Greenland's growing autonomy from Denmark and its possible independence, giving America and NATO continuity no matter how Greenland's relationship with Denmark evolves. 2. It bars non-NATO countries—like Russia and China—from establishing military facilities on the island or investing in its sensitive sectors 3. It reaffirms the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark while recognizing the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination. But in the next phase of the US-Greenland-Denmark relationship, America should focus on expanding rare earths and natural resource production, @LukeDCoffey writes in @USATODAY. https://t.co/POejBm546Z
- Sep 25, 20263.3x their median
China does not have the financing to compete with the US at the frontier levels of AI. Instead, Beijing uses distillation to appropriate American breakthroughs. If Trump gives Beijing access to the US market, it could undermine the economics of US AI and data centers, Tom Duesterberg warns. @ABC
- Sep 25, 20262.9x their median
To fully exploit China's weaknesses, the US should work with allies to cut off Beijing's access to Western financing. Without American financial markets, China cannot keep up in the AI race, Tom Duesterberg explains. @ABC https://t.co/cH8DDXSt3X
- Sep 28, 20262.7x their median
Iran wants America out of the region and an end to the pressure campaign so it can regroup. But the administration's economic pressure and blockade are working, leaving the regime with few options, @RLHeinrichs tells @johnrobertsFox. https://t.co/Kh9hVxZ5RH
- Sep 30, 20262.2x their median
The post-Cold War period of general peace and stability is giving way to a new era of strategic competition. American foreign policy needs to reorient its underlying assumptions to comport with reality: the United States faces not merely competitors, challengers, or even adversaries, but enemies. @todlindberg and @CorbanTeague's latest in @WSJopinion: https://t.co/rKkc9e2YkP
- Sep 28, 20262.2x their median
.@johnrobertsFox: When Iran says they're not interested in building a bomb, you say... @RLHeinrichs: They can go ahead and let IAEA inspectors come in and prove they're not trying to build a bomb. @AmericaRpts https://t.co/SqqZ3ydzZc
- Sep 30, 20262.0x their median
The "restrainers" emerging in the American political debate argue for a lighter foreign policy and reject the post–Cold War claim that Americans' security and prosperity depend on global stability. Restraint has its appeal, but it ignores what follows when America does less: emboldened rivals, rattled allies, and rules written by states that do not share core American interests. Pulling forces back from Europe or the Pacific will not insulate Washington from great-power conflict; rather, it all but ensures a more costly reckoning down the road, @Ludo_Hood writes. Read in @NRO: https://t.co/g4Vm4Fjx3a
- Sep 25, 20261.8x their median
China has two choices as it builds AI models: 1. Give AI access to information beyond the Great Firewall 2. Build misinformed, weak models Either way, artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to the CCP, @wrmead argues on @FoxBusiness. https://t.co/5LFC4cbQmG
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 23 interactions against 128K followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 20,444 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 2.9K times each, and 0.798% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.0K interactions, about 44x its own typical post.
- What is Hudson Institute's engagement rate on X?
- Hudson Institute (@HudsonInstitute) has an engagement rate of 0.018%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 127,597 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.018%, Hudson Institute sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 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 @HudsonInstitute have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @HudsonInstitute post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.9 posts per day across the measured window.