Colin Dunlap engagement report
@colin_dunlap - 101K followers on X
Measured over 64 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 208 interactions against 101K followers, an engagement rate of 0.206%. Measured over 64 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 19,933 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 13K times each, and 1.56% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 13.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 64 posts sampled, 58% carry an image or video and 16% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.8K interactions, about 28x its own typical post.
Measured over 64 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026. Recurring tag: #pittsburgh.
Compared with accounts its own size
Colin Dunlap's engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 54% 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 0.206%, Colin Dunlap sits above the 50th percentile of the 201,449 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.141% to 0.671%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 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 18:00 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 | 58% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 16% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 58% 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.
- 16% 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 198 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 6, 202628x their median
Storming the field when you beat Western Michigan would be like throwing a party for yourself when you make it through a day without shitting your pants.
- Sep 24, 202612x their median
Guy who stabbed the doctor this morning in Edgewood who died protecting his family. Of course he was out on non-monetary bond for felonies in July. The political attitudes of these judges and the people who vote for them allow these tragedies to happen. Blood on all your hands. https://t.co/aSJ6eMoEnv
- Sep 24, 20267.5x their median
Phil Jurkovec had no priors and got a $25K bail for what he did. Elijah Hemingway, in multiple offenses, never had bail. Hemingway stabbed a doctor to death today. I’m not saying Jurkovec shouldn’t; I’m asking why Hemingway didn’t. Pa. bail system is arbitrary & nonsensical.
- Sep 24, 20266.5x their median
Pittsburgh is set to hire Ivory Mathews as housing authority Exec Director today. She resigned in Portland after authorizing her own travel and may have spent agency money on lodging and travel for family members. She will fit right in here! https://t.co/1ja3xUw0Tq
- Sep 25, 20265.5x their median
There are 6 psychiatric, state hospitals in Pa. There were formerly 20+. If you can’t see this problem, you’re the problem. We have far left elected officials who’d rather give insane people free needles and drugs and let them walk around than do what’s right. Suicidal empathy.
- Sep 25, 20265.0x their median
That doctor got killed by a lunatic out on no-cash bond. Know what’s fashionable? THAT JUDGE NEEDS TO PAY!!! The judge sucks. But get this: Almost all of them tell you exactly who they are when they run. Don’t bitch now on Twitter. Research and then vote for the responsible ones.
- Aug 17, 20264.3x their median
Thanks to everyone who reached out. So they have scheduled an L4-5 surgery on my back for Wednesday. Wanted to let the listeners @KDKARadio know someone else will most likely guide you through the week on my show. Thanks for all the kind words and thoughts. They are appreciated. https://t.co/TvLuctTkt9
- Sep 7, 20263.9x their median
This photo was disseminated by the Allegheny County Executive. It is stunning to me how almost all the folks in this photo pushing labor Unions so much have never worked an honest — let alone hard — goddamn day in their life. https://t.co/2Kl3zxeXRy
- Sep 3, 20263.8x their median
While @GovernorShapiro is busy running for President and trolling Trump all day, he keeps ignoring what Ed Gainey's administration did to the great City of Pittsburgh. And he's allowing Ed to collect $145K salary off state gaming revenues. All in the name of partisan politics.
- Sep 25, 20263.8x their median
If you’re a City of Pittsburgh resident, here are the people who saw fit to hire a woman being investigated by Oregon Government Ethics Commission as the new Executive Director of the Housing Authority. Note: Wasi Mohamed is Summer Lee’s Chief of Staff. So the grift checks out. https://t.co/liTBrHG1p6
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 208 interactions against 101K followers, an engagement rate of 0.206%. Measured over 64 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 19,933 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 13K times each, and 1.56% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 13.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 64 posts sampled, 58% carry an image or video and 16% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.8K interactions, about 28x its own typical post.
- What is Colin Dunlap's engagement rate on X?
- Colin Dunlap (@colin_dunlap) has an engagement rate of 0.206%, based on the median interactions across 64 original posts from the last 30 days against 100,982 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.206%, Colin Dunlap sits above the 50th percentile of the 201,449 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 @colin_dunlap have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 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 @colin_dunlap post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.9 posts per day across the measured window.