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Dan Held engagement report

@danheld - 1.3M followers on X

Measured over 42 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.029%
of 1.3M followers
Per impression
0.991%
38K views on a typical post
Reach
2.88%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
382
interactions (median)
Saved
0.029%
11 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.03/day
active 97% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 382 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.029%. Measured over 42 original posts, its engagement rate beats 50% 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 38K times each, and 0.991% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.88% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 42 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 43K interactions, about 78x its own typical post.

Measured over 42 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Dan Held's engagement rate beats 50% 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 47% 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 0.029%, Dan Held sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 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 204,694 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,880 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 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: 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: 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 video40% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link10% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 40% 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.
  • 10% 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 153 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

  • Jul 12, 202678x their median

    It might seem hypocritical that Variety praises Moana for respecting Polynesian culture while attacking you for wanting Nolan’s Odyssey to respect Greek culture. But there’s actually a consistent moral through-line: They just hate White people. https://t.co/IrMfEXOvDA

    38K4.9K248131623K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 202659x their median

    BREAKING: The US Government officially posts its largest July budget deficit in history, at -$432 billion, due to an acceleration in federal spending. Interest on US debt rose +$26 billion from last July's levels to an alarming $118 billion for the month. This puts total interest expense for FY2026 up to $1.17 trillion in FY2026. As a result, interest expense has officially surpassed both National Defense and Medicare spending. In other words, the US government now spends more money just on interest than it does to fund the entire US Military or to provide healthcare for seniors. We cannot afford higher interest rates.

    17K3.4K9561.0K3.0M viewsView on X
  • Nov 13, 202433x their median

    Here's a fun target for higher education reform: Reverse the Biden administration's choice to subsidize the least productive degrees while penalizing people for majoring in productive subjects. https://t.co/YePjaxjrlN

    10K2.0K4492828.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 202632x their median

    Anyone still pretending that an entire generation of young White men has not been systematically excluded from vast swaths of jobs, professions, industries, and institutions is either hopelessly uninformed or deliberately lying. https://t.co/0d4bRsmdSc

    11K1.3K18947226K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 202616x their median

    Hasan Piker: Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world https://t.co/b1DGAXQgKJ

    4.9K8202.0K1.2K11M viewsView on X
  • Jul 16, 202614x their median

    for anyone in tech with money: the annual percentage they want to take from you each year via asset seizure is what you should be plowing into super pacs, NGOs, and media influencers right now to beat back marxism. the hour's late, and nobody else is coming to save you.

    6.6K560203871.2M viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 202618x their median

    Total wealth of US billionaires = $9 trillion. If we confiscated all of their wealth, we'd only be able to run the federal government for about 14 months. Perhaps our problem isn’t how much billionaires have but how much politicians spend.

    6.0K64631743104K viewsView on X
  • Jul 18, 20269.9x their median

    https://t.co/wmUErVBFOo

    3.9K7187132561.3M viewsView on X
  • Oct 23, 202612x their median

    France ranks #1 in taxes and social spending among developed nations, and protesters are demanding MORE of both? What’s French for idiocy? https://t.co/uEnqzraCbx

    3.2K9292329681K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 202611x their median

    Yea sex is great, but have you ever been in a Bitcoin bull run? 😂

    3.7K21814020128K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 382 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.029%. Measured over 42 original posts, its engagement rate beats 50% 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 38K times each, and 0.991% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.88% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 42 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 10% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 43K interactions, about 78x its own typical post.

What is Dan Held's engagement rate on X?
Dan Held (@danheld) has an engagement rate of 0.029%, based on the median interactions across 42 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,336,323 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.029%, Dan Held sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 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 @danheld have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 50% 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 @danheld post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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