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Timothy Snyder engagement report

@TimothyDSnyder - 583K followers on X

Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.056%
of 583K followers
Per impression
1.55%
21K views on a typical post
Reach
3.62%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
328
interactions (median)
Saved
0.095%
20 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.87/day
active 63% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 328 interactions against 583K followers, an engagement rate of 0.056%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% 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 21K times each, and 1.55% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.62% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 58K interactions, about 176x its own typical post.

Measured over 37 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 10, 2026. Recurring tag: #nokings.

Compared with accounts its own size

Timothy Snyder's engagement rate beats 61% 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 60% 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 0.056%, Timothy Snyder sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,583 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,583 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
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 14:00 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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 14:00 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 video8% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link92% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 8% 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.
  • 92% 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 177 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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

  • Nov 11, 2020176x their median

    1/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional.

    36K15K2.0K4.7KView on X
  • Sep 18, 202647x their median

    It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin, saying things that are not only false and cruel but which only Russians could have instructed him to say, since there is no way he could have thought of them himself, and since they depend on knowledge that he does not have.

    12K3.3K12572191K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202626x their median

    A word about Trump’s reckless trade war with Canada. This is happening because Trump’s entire career is based on fraud and grift, which means he simply does not know anything about economics, trade, markets. He never has. (1/2) https://t.co/UQKO9VSBaJ

    6.5K1.9K15670155K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 202620x their median

    Anne Applebaum has been right about a lot of things and this is one. https://t.co/v4r3lVZ9BF

    4.7K1.8K493994K viewsView on X
  • Oct 4, 202617x their median

    Putin’s fascination with the medieval takes the next step. https://t.co/sAakLF2MU1

    4.2K1.1K8824114K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 202617x their median

    We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps. https://t.co/UcGqgyCwpq

    3.8K1.5K793255K viewsView on X
  • Jul 21, 202617x their median

    Trump is pursuing this war in the HOPE that Iran carries out an act of terror in the US. And even if it doesn’t, which I doubt it will, consider the possibility that Trump's people would fake one. Please consider this essay, written back in March, as well as the last few lessons of "On Tyranny." https://t.co/DGESK91Jse

    3.8K1.5K583977K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 202616x their median

    Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. https://t.co/h4PIuOAZ73

    3.7K1.5K1036072K viewsView on X
  • Oct 5, 202616x their median

    Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? https://t.co/79kMrF3w7A

    3.7K1.3K1094067K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 202614x their median

    It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). https://t.co/LzTNFR9Ux2

    3.1K1.5K302576K 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.

Recurring topics

#nokings

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 328 interactions against 583K followers, an engagement rate of 0.056%. Measured over 37 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% 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 21K times each, and 1.55% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.62% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 37 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 92% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 58K interactions, about 176x its own typical post.

What is Timothy Snyder's engagement rate on X?
Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) has an engagement rate of 0.056%, based on the median interactions across 37 original posts from the last 30 days against 583,022 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.056%, Timothy Snyder sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,583 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 @TimothyDSnyder have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 61% 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 @TimothyDSnyder post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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