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David McWilliams engagement report

@davidmcw - 309K followers on X

Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.03%
of 309K followers
Per impression
0.578%
16K views on a typical post
Reach
5.27%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
94
interactions (median)
Saved
0.043%
7 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.07/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
10:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 94 interactions against 309K followers, an engagement rate of 0.03%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 38% 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 16K times each, and 0.578% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 19x its own typical post.

Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

David McWilliams's engagement rate beats 38% 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 29% 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 0.03%, David McWilliams sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,475 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%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,475 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,893 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 percentile0.678%
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 10:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 10:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 10:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video53% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link59% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 53% 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.
  • 59% 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 146 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

  • Sep 4, 202619x their median

    TROY PARROTT OFF THE BENCH TO GIVE BETIS THE LEAD OVER REAL MADRID! SENSATIONAL! https://t.co/6dNtjdrSxm

    1.7K1091317100K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 202614x their median

    In 2000 there were nearly 600 nightclubs in Ireland, today there are 83. What happened to Ireland's nightlife? Asking for a friend! https://t.co/dJA8B1ggd8

    9578527424264K viewsView on X
  • Oct 6, 202610x their median

    Ireland is experiencing a surge in immigration. This raises questions for our tax and welfare system - https://t.co/Uj1ji2U0j4

    736991251466K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20268.0x their median

    Socialism is happening in Ireland under a so-called centre-right Coalition - https://t.co/wnfgDR6JFw

    549711003161K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20265.6x their median

    Weil nie wieder jetzt ist braucht es eine »Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik«. Worauf es ankommt besprechen ich im @derspiegel Interview. Im Zentrum steht die Würde aller, die Bezahlbarkeit voraussetzt. https://t.co/vA181UxhO4

    231472212955K viewsView on X
  • Jun 21, 20245.6x their median

    It's brilliant when lots of work finally begins to come together. My new book, Money: A Story of Humanity will be out on September 12. https://t.co/OL1MAIRvOT

    3585210213231K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20265.2x their median

    This video about the "genius design" of the Madrid Metro needs to be seen by every Dubliner who wants a cheap, fast and affordable Metro in our city. Just bring in the Spaniards and let them do it. https://t.co/XtmvxPtwwN

    3815641944K viewsView on X
  • Jul 16, 202612x their median

    A snapshot of how bad things would have been had England got to the final, let alone won the thing… https://t.co/m1GR5ap3VV

    394232121212K viewsView on X
  • Oct 3, 20264.2x their median

    Today's @FT on Spain's housing crisis moment, but with Ireland among the charts. Housing stock growth lags population growth, but doesn't when you exclude migration. cc @peterburkefg @JamesBrowneTD @OCallaghanJim @davidmcw The right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisis - https://t.co/BdRhbwmiJO via @FT

    28167321564K viewsView on X
  • Oct 1, 20264.1x their median

    A Dubliner can only dream of this... https://t.co/9MIry6F9nV

    3051462168K 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 94 interactions against 309K followers, an engagement rate of 0.03%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 38% 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 16K times each, and 0.578% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 19x its own typical post.

What is David McWilliams's engagement rate on X?
David McWilliams (@davidmcw) has an engagement rate of 0.03%, based on the median interactions across 17 original posts from the last 30 days against 308,860 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.03%, David McWilliams sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,475 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 @davidmcw have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 38% 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 @davidmcw post?
Most posts go out around 10:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.07 posts per day across the measured window.

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