David Bombal engagement report
@davidbombal - 184K followers on X
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 49 interactions against 184K followers, an engagement rate of 0.027%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% 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 5.7K times each, and 0.852% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 636 interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #splunkconf26, #sponsored, #cybersecurity.
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 15, 2026. Recurring tags: #splunkconf26, #sponsored, #cybersecurity.
Compared with accounts its own size
David Bombal's engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 39% 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 0.027%, David Bombal sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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.
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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 22% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% 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.
- 22% 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 354 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 20, 202613x their median
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- Sep 6, 202612x their median
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- Aug 18, 20269.5x their median
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- Aug 17, 20268.4x their median
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- Sep 11, 20267.4x their median
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- Sep 2, 20267.1x their median
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- Aug 25, 20266.5x their median
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- Sep 28, 20266.5x their median
Up to 140 Hacking Guides a Month Cybercriminals are sharing more hacking and fraud tutorials than ever. Researchers at Radware found more than 3,000 unique hacking and fraud guides on underground forums, with around 110–140 new tutorials appearing every month in 2026. The focus is changing too. Identity theft and carding tutorials are growing rapidly, while AI is making this type of knowledge easier to create and distribute. But defenders can also use this intelligence to see what criminals are learning before those techniques become widespread. Get the full Radware threat advisory report here: https://t.co/t5niyvQHSF This video is sponsored by @radware . #CyberSecurity #Hacking #CyberCrime #AI #InfoSec
- Feb 2, 20255.1x their median
Are VPNs even safe now? YouTube video: https://t.co/ioVnTDO6P1 #privacy #vpn #cybersecurity #hack #hacker #hacking #infosec #firewall #security #CVE @three_cube https://t.co/2dDOrnyfED
- Sep 1, 20264.5x their median
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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.
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 49 interactions against 184K followers, an engagement rate of 0.027%. Measured over 45 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% 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 5.7K times each, and 0.852% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 636 interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #splunkconf26, #sponsored, #cybersecurity.
- What is David Bombal's engagement rate on X?
- David Bombal (@davidbombal) has an engagement rate of 0.027%, based on the median interactions across 45 original posts from the last 30 days against 184,347 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.027%, David Bombal sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 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 @davidbombal have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 36% 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 @davidbombal post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.