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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.011%
of 642K followers
Per impression
0.916%
7.7K views on a typical post
Reach
1.21%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
71
interactions (median)
Saved
0.039%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.97/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Monday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.679%
p902.56%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,676 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,897 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 percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.679%
90th percentile2.56%
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 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.

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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link98% 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

    139K6.7K2471351.9M viewsView on X
  • 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

    3.5K1.6K2347975K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.8K1.2K1263848K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2.7K950983026K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 202652x their median

    The Hatch Act prohibits use of federal government planes and cars for political travel. https://t.co/isTRCQhB6v

    2.5K1.1K462420K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 202636x their median

    You can't make this stuff up. https://t.co/o0mUygho7F

    1.6K838394578K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.5K49513315K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.0K1755944191K viewsView on X
  • 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

    88727628715K viewsView on X
  • 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

    77226210825K 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 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.

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