David Frum engagement report
@davidfrum - 950K followers on X
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 20, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 119 interactions against 950K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% of 1,003 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 35K times each, and 0.343% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.65% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 34% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 68% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 215x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #napoleon, #napoleonbonaparte, #onthisday.
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 20, 2026. Recurring tags: #napoleon, #napoleonbonaparte, #onthisday.
Compared with accounts its own size
David Frum's engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 22% 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 0.013%, David Frum sits above the 25th percentile of the 10,829 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.007% to 0.049%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.049% |
| 75th percentile | 0.331% |
| 90th percentile | 2.52% |
| 99th percentile | 340.7% |
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 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 | 0% | 15K |
| 01:00 UTC | +4% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 17K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 29K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 34% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 68% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.1K |
| Typical length | - | -5% | -7% to -4% | 7.9K |
- 34% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 68% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 228 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 5% 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
- Aug 18, 2026215x their median
Como cada 18 de agosto recordamos a Khaled Asaad, el héroe de Palmira, de la que fue director arqueológico durante 40 años. El Estado Islámico lo asesinó en 2015 por negarse a revelar dónde estaban las 400 piezas que había ocultado para evitar su destrucción. ¡Eterno Khaled! https://t.co/KUZsW4nTVw
- Aug 18, 2026170x their median
It's done. I just recorded the organic version of 'We Will Dance Again. All live musicians. Well @KevanFrost always thought he was Prince. Live brass next. Today is a very powerful day. I hope we can all give peace a chance!
- Aug 12, 202631x their median
For two years, a group of mostly Muslim male students, led by a Muslim boy, bullied and threatened mostly female Jewish students at a prominent Virginia public high school. School officials repeatedly looked the other way. My @TheFP investigation. https://t.co/By5bujWjWW
- Aug 18, 202618x their median
such a great piece on the tragedy of Jason Arday by @gcaw. This metaphor is perfect. https://t.co/hQD3FQx6yK
- Aug 11, 202615x their median
New York Magazine's cover story—about how October 7th led to a cultural renaissance for Arab, Iranian, and Muslim New Yorkers—cites a New York Post write-up of my reporting as an example that the community faces "xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Zionism." I appreciate the opportunity to revisit my reporting. Here is what I found: Spotify playlists that appeared to belong to Rama Duwaji, wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, containing songs with lyrics about “Jews who are greedy” and declaring, “Israel gon’ die, bitch.”
- Aug 16, 202614x their median
The Trump administration destroyed the govt database that details ownership of US companies. Trump hails this act of destruction as reducing burdens on US business. But the burdens remain fully in place, they've just been shifted from dishonest to honest people. Latest: https://t.co/Wh3fEaemqX
- Aug 18, 202614x their median
Just finished reading @kinsellawarren remarkable book-length investigation of coordinated campaign of anti-Israel defamation since 10/7. Israel was targeted for genocide. When it repelled the genocidaires, it was accused of the very crime it stopped. https://t.co/D3kLxHKS9y https://t.co/XjOpsVj8El
- Aug 12, 202611x their median
If you protest a war but refuse to condemn the side that started it, if you vilify the country that was attacked but not the terrorists who attacked it, you're at best a useful idiot for, and at worst a willing accomplice of, religious fascists. https://t.co/pkcqgUUJvG
- Aug 9, 20268.9x their median
“McConnell’s political career is ending, but his legacy will last much longer. Unfortunately, it has left America much harder to govern” https://t.co/vExS8MQKpj
- Aug 13, 20268.7x their median
The US government is about to sell 30-year bonds at the highest interest rate in a quarter of a century https://t.co/CHJo5aySI7
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 119 interactions against 950K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% of 1,003 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 35K times each, and 0.343% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.65% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 34% carry an image or video, 11% are part of a thread and 68% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 215x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #napoleon, #napoleonbonaparte, #onthisday.
- What is David Frum's engagement rate on X?
- David Frum (@davidfrum) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 949,890 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.013%, David Frum sits above the 25th percentile of the 10,829 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 @davidfrum have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 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 @davidfrum post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.83 posts per day across the measured window.