The DATA Foundation engagement report
@datafdn - 554K followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 157 interactions against 554K followers, an engagement rate of 0.028%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 3,774 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 18K times each, and 0.896% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.16% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video, 46% are part of a thread and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 397 interactions, about 2.5x its own typical post.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The DATA Foundation's engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 50% 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 0.028%, The DATA Foundation sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 23, 20262.5x their median
Over 100 million registrations in less than 30 days of launch. That's 100+ million permanent legal receipts for AI training data created on Trace. So far: ▸ 105M registrations ▸ 171k contributors ▸ 170 TB of data audited ▸ $57k chain fees https://t.co/paAPvaOdS6
- Aug 3, 20262.3x their median
The DATA Network has just received clearance to onboard audit receipts for over 500,000 hours of video content spanning 30,000 pieces of entertainment, including Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Tennessee Tuxedo, Tom & Jerry, The Pink Panther, Popeye, The Twilight Zone, Garfield, and thousands of other classics. Kled is onboarding this content to Trace so its ownership, provenance, licensing rights, and usage history can be independently verified before it is sold to AI labs. This is the future of the AI data market. The world’s most valuable IP will increasingly require permanent, transparent audit trails before it can be licensed for AI training, and those records will live on the DATA Network.
- Jul 18, 20261.9x their median
500,000 Users. Onward. https://t.co/lRwP0l76VA
- Aug 4, 20261.8x their median
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- Aug 4, 2026
We passed 150M registrations in just over a month. Each represents a permanent audit receipt for AI training data on Trace. Raw numbers: ▸ 151.7M registrations ▸ 359K contributors ▸ 224 TB of data audited ▸ $105K in fees in 30d We’re dedicating the next month to scaling our system to handle the next 150M uploads.
- Jul 30, 2026
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- Jul 10, 2026
New favorite pastime: watching registrations stream in live on Trace. https://t.co/siCz59Xn8N
- Aug 4, 2026
The DATA Network is onboarding audit receipts for hundreds of broadcast programs from Maryland Public Television, one of the largest statewide networks in the PBS family. For more than 50 years, MPT has produced award-winning programming across science, nature, crime, history, education, and local storytelling, earning 211 Capital Emmy Awards alongside multiple national Emmys. This marks another major catalog being brought into the transparent AI data economy through the DATA Network x @useKled partnership. As the catalog's exclusive AI licensing partner, Kled is onboarding it to Trace, where its provenance, licensing permissions, and usage history can be independently verified before it is licensed to AI labs. We're entering an era where governments, public institutions, and major media organizations are licensing their archives to AI companies. Transparent proof of authorization will become increasingly important, and those records will live on the DATA Network.
- Jul 24, 2026
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- Jul 28, 2026
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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 157 interactions against 554K followers, an engagement rate of 0.028%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 3,774 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 18K times each, and 0.896% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.16% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video, 46% are part of a thread and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 397 interactions, about 2.5x its own typical post.
- What is The DATA Foundation's engagement rate on X?
- The DATA Foundation (@datafdn) has an engagement rate of 0.028%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 553,743 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.028%, The DATA Foundation sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @datafdn have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @datafdn post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1 posts per day across the measured window.