Richard W. Painter engagement report
@RWPUSA - 642K followers on X
Measured over 43 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 71 interactions against 642K followers, an engagement rate of 0.011%. Measured over 43 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% 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 7.7K times each, and 0.916% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.21% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 43 posts sampled, 23% are part of a thread and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 146K interactions, about 2062x its own typical post.
Measured over 43 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 5, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Richard W. Painter's engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 45% 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 0.011%, Richard W. Painter sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,676 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 | 0.679% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 12:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 98% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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.
- 98% 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 207 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
- Sep 27, 20262062x their median
When I got sexually assaulted in college the only option Bard gave me was a restraining order type thing where I would have had to tell him my entire schedule so he could avoid me, thereby letting him know where I was at all times
- Sep 9, 202676x their median
Supplementation of government salaries is prohibited under a criminal statute. 18 U.S. Code § 209 - Salary of Government officials and employees payable only by United States https://t.co/2H70SlncuG
- Sep 27, 202658x their median
As I told @baylisswagner of the @nytimes here, this could be an impeachable offense. @POTUS has no right to use taxpayer money for campaign ads. Congress has expressly prohibited government sponsored political propaganda, which is dangerous for democracy. https://t.co/KNYIFfEAGG
- Sep 10, 202653x their median
No, Mr. President you can't offer voters $5000 if the Republicans win the House and Senate. 18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting https://t.co/GXewSIdOeP
- Sep 11, 202652x their median
The Hatch Act prohibits use of federal government planes and cars for political travel. https://t.co/isTRCQhB6v
- Sep 12, 202636x their median
You can't make this stuff up. https://t.co/o0mUygho7F
- Sep 28, 202628x their median
This is an abuse of power. Government propaganda like this is common in countries like Iran and North Korea, but not here. In fact it's illegal. https://t.co/vJtrzjAfoo
- Aug 30, 202626x their median
Hasan Piker has crossed the line between criticizing the Israeli government and publicly attacking American Jews who support Israel's right to exist. He is a bigot. Any politician who associates with him should be voted down in November. https://t.co/15r5vQXhmw
- Aug 30, 202617x their median
Read the First Amendment Mr. President. The Federal Communications Commission is not the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. https://t.co/sOjl9RJ8MZ
- Sep 29, 202615x their median
As I said here: “You watch all three ads, they’re sheer propaganda. This is increasingly looking like what authoritarian governments do to promote their leaders.” https://t.co/N9IgbWJNCq
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 71 interactions against 642K followers, an engagement rate of 0.011%. Measured over 43 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% 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 7.7K times each, and 0.916% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.21% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 43 posts sampled, 23% are part of a thread and 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 146K interactions, about 2062x its own typical post.
- What is Richard W. Painter's engagement rate on X?
- Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) has an engagement rate of 0.011%, based on the median interactions across 43 original posts from the last 30 days against 642,019 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.011%, Richard W. Painter sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,676 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 @RWPUSA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 35% 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 @RWPUSA post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.97 posts per day across the measured window.