Resist the Mainstream engagement report
@ResisttheMS - 470K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 37 interactions against 470K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 21,185 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 6.1K times each, and 0.606% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.30% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 38x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Resist the Mainstream's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 35% 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 0.008%, Resist the Mainstream sits above the 10th percentile of the 213,098 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 19:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 33% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% 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.
- 33% 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 288 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
- Oct 21, 202638x their median
Stephen A. Smith absolutely pummels The View's Sunny Hostin after she suggested that President Trump might get impeached or convicted. Smith: "Whether you like him or not, he’s the president of the United States of America. He's not going away until 2028." Hostin: "He may get impeached or convicted." Smith: "Hold on a minute… He’s been impeached twice… I’m so sick and tired of us acting like that’s going to do something." "He’s not going away until 2028." https://t.co/K9h34ALKWq
- Sep 19, 202635x their median
Bill Maher: "If you think a $5K per person giveaway is crazy, what would be your opinion of $5M?"https://t.co/YmADo8iheC "Because in 2021, the San Francisco reparations plan recommended paying every eligible black adult that amount. Plus a house for $1 and the elimination of all personal debt and a guaranteed income of nearly $100K for 250 years." "Let me just say, not only do I support this proposal, I'm willing to identify as whatever it takes to get it."
- Sep 5, 202622x their median
Sen. Mike Lee pummels Bernie Sanders after his repeated calls for billionaires to "pay their fair share." Lee makes it clear that Elon Musk’s money "belongs to him" and that the government has no claim to it. "The fact that Elon Musk has lots of money doesn't make it yours—or the government's, or anyone else's. It belongs to him." "The minute you cease to recognize that even for one person, everyone's right to their own money is threatened."
- Oct 24, 202615x their median
Katie Miller: "What is your biggest irrational fear?" Elon Musk: "I try not to have irrational fears. If I find an irrational fear, I squelch it. Fear is the mind killer." https://t.co/2V4olcMjbi
- Sep 21, 202614x their median
Elon Musk: "I think you had one article about how Gavin Newsom is a U-Haul salesman of the year - actually true."https://t.co/ID93rUF0Rn "[It's] increasingly difficult to get things done." "California used to be the land of opportunity, and now it has become the land of over-regulation, over-litigation, over-taxation… and scorn."
- Oct 24, 202610x their median
Bill Maher says he doesn't "give a sh*t" about those fuming over him supporting President Trump's White House Ballroom. "I like the ballroom. America does need a ballroom." "It's the United States of America. We're having dinner in the grass. It's stupid." https://t.co/RBY1CeanaQ
- Oct 24, 20269.8x their median
Bill Maher says that President Trump comes across very differently in private than he does in public. He describes the president as very "sane," energetic, and surprisingly easy to talk to during their White House dinners. Maher: "He never pulls rank. No matter how flippant I get, he never goes, 'How dare you say that in the White House?' I mean, I can talk to him just like I talk to any guy at a bar." Karoline Leavitt: "He is far more sane than the last one. OK, we had a mental patient." Maher: "He's far more energetic." https://t.co/SVvrMvfNYD
- Sep 19, 20268.6x their median
Elon Musk: "We should have empathy, but that empathy should extend to the victims, not just the criminals." https://t.co/5AgsO6w3Um
- Oct 24, 20268.3x their median
Elon Musk: "Once you lose freedom of speech, you don't get it back." "So that's why we must protect it at all costs!" https://t.co/a35OAAFlsK
- Oct 24, 20267.9x their median
Elon Musk: "It's disappointing how well propaganda works." "If you repeat a lie… some people actually believe it… If someone believes CNN, then they would say, he must be a Nazi because they said it on TV." https://t.co/6HTuMN297M
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 37 interactions against 470K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 21,185 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 6.1K times each, and 0.606% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.30% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.4K interactions, about 38x its own typical post.
- What is Resist the Mainstream's engagement rate on X?
- Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 469,970 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.008%, Resist the Mainstream sits above the 10th percentile of the 213,098 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 @ResisttheMS have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @ResisttheMS post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.