Victor Davis Hanson engagement report
@VDHanson - 820K followers on X
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 725 interactions against 820K followers, an engagement rate of 0.088%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% of 15,823 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 43K times each, and 1.69% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.23% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
Measured over 11 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026. Recurring tag: #thecounterrevolutuon.
Compared with accounts its own size
Victor Davis Hanson's engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,823 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 64% 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 0.088%, Victor Davis Hanson sits above the 25th percentile of the 160,367 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.606% |
| 90th percentile | 2.33% |
| 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 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -8% | -9% to -7% | 41K |
- 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.
- 100% 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 77 characters, which falls in the under 80 characters band. Across the catalog, posts under 80 characters run 8% 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
- Aug 13, 202626x their median
One of the more surreal things about the new Democratic Party is its habit of charging Trump with legal and ethical transgressions that Democrats themselves normalized years ago. The result is a strange sort of projection, in which the Left’s charges often reveal its own prior wrongdoing. And after undermining norms, they now lament the loss of what they destroyed. https://t.co/OhePr4iUuf
- Jun 23, 202611x their median
On January 7, 2021 the media pronounced President Trump inert, kaput, zapped. He was soon to be impeached a second time, and tried in the Senate as a private citizen. Trump was written off by many grandees in his own party, libeled as a neo-Confederate insurrectionist, crashing in the Republican polls, and within months the target of 91 lawfare indictments in five civil and criminal courtrooms, and facing half-a-billion dollars in fines and a possible lengthy prison sentence. Yet within two years, Trump was defiant as ever. He began criss-crossing the countries to massive rallies—between court appearances. He was soon crushing his Republican primary opponents, and convinced he could regain the presidency, despite two assassination attempts, the hatred of the frenzied Left, and loathed by the media, the universities, the corporate board rooms, celebrities, and most of the donor class. No matter. Donald Trump staged the greatest comeback in American presidential history, won back the White House, and began launching the most sweeping counter-revolution in a century. Almost alone, Trump was determined to undo 100 years of the progressive take-over of our institutions, to marginalize the gloomy declinists, and to reboot the U.S. as the greatest economic, military, and political power in the world How he arose from the ashes, crushed his opponents, and sought to restore America is the story of Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement—a carefully documented account and analysis of what Trump’s adversaries did to him, why he survived, and how he has become one of our nation's most consequential and controversial presidents. Pre-Order now
- Aug 6, 20268.6x their median
Iran is losing whether it is being bombed, sanctioned, or embargoed—or all three. Its ultimate fate now rests with the Trump administration, which apparently has not yet decided what, exactly, that fate will be. https://t.co/60h4RUlEft
- Aug 27, 20266.5x their median
President Donald Trump is the first president to challenge the Left’s “neo-confederate” policies, such as sanctuary cities, which seek to bypass the federal government’s historical supremacy over matters pertaining to immigration, and the Left called him a fascist. https://t.co/yQgijyJeBF
- Aug 27, 20265.8x their median
A better name for the current Women’s National Basketball League (WNBA) might be Women’s Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), given the growing performance-art violence that is now endemic in the league. https://t.co/n0u1dLKJYs
- Aug 11, 20265.2x their median
The overriding commonality among those on the new Left is that if they do not get their way, they blame the “system.” Then they seek to change the rules, no matter how hallowed those laws and conventions may have been or how much they themselves benefited from them in the past. https://t.co/pDWRPUaMjj
- Sep 15, 20265.1x their median
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement—he is the global one. https://t.co/Irs4ZJsZhQ
- Sep 3, 20264.5x their median
What is the unspoken source of the acrimony? The United States is leaping ahead of other Western countries in ways few anticipated several decades ago, while Canada is stagnating. https://t.co/21a3heWFOG
- Aug 4, 20262.7x their median
The more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like—and even appear comfortable being called—communists. https://t.co/5KuKfMucAj
- Aug 13, 20262.4x their median
How were the scientists who criticized Fauci’s COVID mandates unfairly vilified in a way to keep them silent? On today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and @jackfowler discuss certain scientists’ early warnings about school closures, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the broader costs of the COVID response, while explaining how Fauci suppressed dissent and concealed his involvement in COVID-related gain-of-function research in China. https://t.co/gs1a5vL0Fm
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 725 interactions against 820K followers, an engagement rate of 0.088%. Measured over 11 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% of 15,823 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 43K times each, and 1.69% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.23% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 11 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
- What is Victor Davis Hanson's engagement rate on X?
- Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) has an engagement rate of 0.088%, based on the median interactions across 11 original posts from the last 30 days against 820,254 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.088%, Victor Davis Hanson sits above the 25th percentile of the 160,367 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 @VDHanson have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,823 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 @VDHanson post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.27 posts per day across the measured window.