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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.206%
of 101K followers
Per impression
1.56%
13K views on a typical post
Reach
13.2%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
208
interactions (median)
Saved
0.034%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.9/day
active 40% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Tuesday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,449 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,929 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 percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.5%

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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 18:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 video58% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link16% 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.

    5.4K3098219273K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.8K4071443657K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    1.3K16796457K viewsView on X
  • 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

    92525215629104K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    94813162413K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    87410947221K viewsView on X
  • 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

    71614169331K viewsView on X
  • 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

    6237893738K viewsView on X
  • 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.

    62711945717K viewsView on X
  • 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

    53917271614K 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

#pittsburgh

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.

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