Senator Dick Durbin engagement report
@SenatorDurbin - 683K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 3, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 130 interactions against 683K followers, an engagement rate of 0.019%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 19,675 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 8.8K times each, and 1.47% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 45% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 50K interactions, about 387x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 3, 2026. Recurring tag: #macfellow.
Compared with accounts its own size
Senator Dick Durbin's engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,675 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 59% 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 0.019%, Senator Dick Durbin sits above the 10th percentile of the 198,354 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 | 0.14% |
| 75th percentile | 0.665% |
| 90th percentile | 2.52% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 14:00 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 | 45% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 20% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 45% 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.
- 20% 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 262 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
- Jul 29, 2026387x their median
Dr. Fauci is a deeply caring physician, a brilliant scientist, an extraordinary public servant, a humanitarian, & a patriot—whose work has helped save tens of millions of lives. It is a shame to watch him be dragged in front of Congress in the name of bogus conspiracy theories.
- Aug 7, 2026328x their median
Dr. Fauci deserves an apology for the way he was treated by my Republican colleagues. https://t.co/DH0b4M3PSQ
- Apr 23, 2025162x their median
The decision of whether to run for re-election has not been easy. I truly love the job of being a United States Senator. But in my heart, I know it’s time to pass the torch. So, I am announcing today that I will not be seeking re-election at the end of my term. https://t.co/eiBTPjToFT
- Aug 6, 2026141x their median
It was an embarrassment to watch my Republican colleagues berate and belittle Dr. Fauci for nearly three hours last week. If they had genuine concern for America’s public health, they would turn their attention instead to the destruction wrought by the Trump Administration’s anti-science agenda.
- Aug 8, 2026109x their median
It was a grave mistake for the Senate to approve Todd Blanche as the next Attorney General. If there is ever a moment in history when we need an AG above reproach, who is dedicated to ending corruption, it is right now. This nation deserves an Attorney General who loves the Constitution more than he loves the President. Sadly, Todd Blanche is not that person.
- Aug 4, 202678x their median
Todd Blanche told me privately that he “made a mistake” creating the MAGA slush fund. I asked him about it under oath. And he lied to Congress. His willingness to casually lie under oath shows how far he will go to avoid offending his only boss: Donald Trump.
- Aug 6, 202660x their median
It is a sad day indeed when leaders use their authority in ways that cause harm, feed ego, or damage individuals who have spent their lives in service to others. Dr. Fauci deserves better.
- Sep 28, 202655x their median
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Jack Smith investigated his efforts to illegally overturn those results. Finally, Mr. Smith will have the opportunity to testify tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what he found. https://t.co/qUk4UQoxpy
- Jul 29, 202652x their median
Todd Blanche told me privately that the MAGA slush fund he created was a “mistake.” A direct quote. Now he’s lying about it. Todd Blanche either has a short memory… or is lying for Donald Trump.
- Sep 29, 202619x their median
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I am not a politician, and I have no partisan loyalty. I stand by my decision to bring charges against President Trump. I made those decisions without regard to his political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 election. https://t.co/f696bSC38t
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 130 interactions against 683K followers, an engagement rate of 0.019%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 19,675 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 8.8K times each, and 1.47% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 45% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 50K interactions, about 387x its own typical post.
- What is Senator Dick Durbin's engagement rate on X?
- Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) has an engagement rate of 0.019%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 682,799 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.019%, Senator Dick Durbin sits above the 10th percentile of the 198,354 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 @SenatorDurbin have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,675 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 @SenatorDurbin post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.1 posts per day across the measured window.