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David Frum engagement report

@davidfrum - 950K followers on X

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 18, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.025%
of 950K followers
Per impression
0.716%
34K views on a typical post
Reach
3.54%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
241
interactions (median)
Saved
0.052%
18 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.87/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 241 interactions against 950K followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 15,519 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 34K times each, and 0.716% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.54% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 20% carry an image or video, 15% are part of a thread and 80% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 106x its own typical post.

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 18, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

David Frum's engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 41% 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 0.025%, David Frum sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,839 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.128%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 156,839 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 26,058 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.128%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.4%

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 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 video20% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link80% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 20% 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.
  • 80% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% 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 267 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

  • Aug 18, 2026106x 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

    20K5.4K130120263K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 202685x 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!

    18K2.1K78182188K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202639x their median

    In 18 months in office, Trump and his family have accumulated billions of dollars. Even if/after Trump leaves office, this wrongfully obtained fortune will offer a resource for power-seeking by his heirs. Other democracies have reclaimed plundered wealth from fallen autocrats. Some lessons for Americans from Nigeria, Peru, and the Philippines. My latest in @theAtlantic https://t.co/wdBEKefBU1

    6.5K2.6K21376155K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202617x their median

    Lake Ontario at midnight, more beautiful when it's shared between friends https://t.co/GwZG9Hyo6r

    3.6K37769835K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202616x their median

    Why the US-Canada trade deal collapsed: because the US insisted that it retain the right to renege at any time: "[T[he United States maintained that it would retain all power to change tariff policy against Canada at any time, irrespective of the agreement ..." https://t.co/Qnfal97GYj

    2.6K1.1K21187110K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 202615x 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

    3.0K6407241230K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202613x their median

    In his notorious speech in Des Moines in September 1941, Charles Lindbergh warned American Jews that if they kept objecting to the persecution of Jews overseas, their fellow-Americans would persecute Jews here at home. https://t.co/CbCLAfBwmm https://t.co/bGVbyE0b5o

    2.4K56718092334K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20269.1x their median

    such a great piece on the tragedy of Jason Arday by @gcaw. This metaphor is perfect. https://t.co/hQD3FQx6yK

    1.9K23721994K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20267.6x 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.”

    1.5K234491864K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20267.1x 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

    1.1K551211036K 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 241 interactions against 950K followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 15,519 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 34K times each, and 0.716% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.54% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 20% carry an image or video, 15% are part of a thread and 80% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 106x its own typical post.

What is David Frum's engagement rate on X?
David Frum (@davidfrum) has an engagement rate of 0.025%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 949,974 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.025%, David Frum sits above the 25th percentile of the 156,839 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 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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