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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

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.135%
of 505K followers
Per impression
2.40%
28K views on a typical post
Reach
5.59%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
679
interactions (median)
Saved
0.071%
20 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 33% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Thursday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,005 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,901 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.4%

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.

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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 17:00 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 video47% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link26% 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

    17K8.8K4926311.9M viewsView on X
  • 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

    19K3.5K2471711.0M viewsView on X
  • 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

    14K6.7K187150221K viewsView on X
  • 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

    11K4.4K153157209K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    11K2.1K670133885K viewsView on X
  • 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

    9.0K98638970316K viewsView on X
  • 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

    6.6K3.2K97206315K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.1K4.2K7616270K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.4K2.5K155156158K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.3K47226279587K 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.

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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.

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