Judd Legum engagement report
@JuddLegum - 505K followers on X
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 679 interactions against 505K followers, an engagement rate of 0.135%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 19,932 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 28K times each, and 2.40% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.59% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 47% carry an image or video, 21% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 27K interactions, about 34x its own typical post.
Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Judd Legum's engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 72% 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 0.135%, Judd Legum sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,005 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.141%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 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 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.
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 | 47% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 26% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 47% 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.
- 26% 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 258 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
- Mar 17, 202534x their median
1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. https://t.co/nlf71ATp9z
- Jul 28, 202634x their median
1. This @nypost cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition. https://t.co/m8onBcgAcu
- Jul 23, 202631x their median
News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian The Hill Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW The Telegraph
- Jul 29, 202623x their median
David Barton is a fake historian who wrote a book on Thomas Jefferson that was so inaccurate his publisher was forced to pull it from the shelves. Now Barton, and his son Tim, are advising Trump on his anti-Smithsonian crusade. https://t.co/OmjoYpHMr2
- Oct 13, 202620x their median
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, says she is a lawyer. She has claimed to be a lawyer repeatedly on national TV, on podcasts, and on social media. But there is no evidence that Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law.
- Sep 15, 202615x their median
Senate Democrats trying to figure out how to vote NO on the Clarity Act after receiving over 120+ wins and a majority of their ethics requests. The time for negotiating is over. Let's vote. Let's pass this strong, bipartisan bill. https://t.co/XRaQY5ibT3
- Aug 6, 202615x their median
1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states. https://t.co/XNPf5fbkuf
- Sep 10, 202614x their median
🚨 BEWARE of https://t.co/t3WSBRSlSF 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC. https://t.co/TUgwNHpOA9
- Jul 27, 202612x their median
1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals. https://t.co/0C3KDQ3Cx3
- Oct 16, 20269.1x their median
OMG -- Katie Zacharia got beat up on Fox & Friends too! KILMEADE: Your thoughts about how your job has gone so far? KATIE ZACHARIA: I hit the ground running LAWRENCE JONES: It's been a tough week for you. Do you wish you would've disclosed to the president about not passing the bar? ZACHARIA: Those questions weren't asked
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 679 interactions against 505K followers, an engagement rate of 0.135%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 19,932 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 28K times each, and 2.40% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.59% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 47% carry an image or video, 21% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 27K interactions, about 34x its own typical post.
- What is Judd Legum's engagement rate on X?
- Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) has an engagement rate of 0.135%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 505,042 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.135%, Judd Legum sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,005 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 @JuddLegum have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @JuddLegum post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.