Democracy Now! engagement report
@democracynow - 799K followers on X
Measured over 78 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 66 interactions against 799K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 78 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 3,809 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 10K times each, and 0.631% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 78 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 23x its own typical post.
Measured over 78 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Democracy Now!'s engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 40% 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 0.008%, Democracy Now! sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 18:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 202623x their median
U.S.-Born Children Are Sent to Haiti Aboard Second Deportation Flight in a Week https://t.co/2JSm6ZMhxn
- Aug 22, 202617x their median
Newly released federal documents have revealed the existence of an expansive surveillance program launched by the Department of Homeland Security against activists, labor unions, community groups, and even a bicycle repair collective, in Minnesota last winter. https://t.co/QJ6n8PGnXb
- Aug 27, 202615x their median
Alex Pretti’s Family Calls for Accountability Seven Months After His Killing by Federal Agents https://t.co/KAOgDuzKsK
- Aug 29, 202612x their median
Democracy Now! reached Prairieland protester Autumn Hill and spoke to her via phone from her incarceration in Texas. Hill is serving a 50-year prison sentence on terrorism-related charges for participating in an anti-ICE demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, last July. https://t.co/XTB3PJqMqM
- Aug 30, 20267.2x their median
For every child in ICE detention, "there are American investors who are making money off of their imprisonment." https://t.co/xZ3LhbCgiu
- Aug 23, 20266.2x their median
AI expert Connor Leahy of ControlAI says governments should "criminalize the creation of superintelligence the same way that it is illegal to build a nuclear bomb." https://t.co/qi2TVdr3wb
- Aug 29, 20264.7x their median
The new feature film "Filipiñana," set in an upscale golf country club outside Manila, is a dark satire that explores issues including inequality, colonialism, structural violence and patriarchy. https://t.co/2Dtbk5Mn4j
- Aug 21, 20264.6x their median
"These were not probes into antisemitism accusations, but they were efforts to dismantle higher education brick by brick," says Columbia professor Marianne Hirsch about the Justice Department's so-called inquiries into alleged antisemitism at U.S. colleges and universities. https://t.co/pTVvnVnVk1
- Aug 22, 20264.5x their median
We speak with journalist Gil Durán, who investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics in his new book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War." https://t.co/N7axFWACYv
- Aug 28, 20264.4x their median
“Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas. ...This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change.” https://t.co/IdleWuWRLw
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 66 interactions against 799K followers, an engagement rate of 0.008%. Measured over 78 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 3,809 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 10K times each, and 0.631% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.31% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 78 posts sampled, 15% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 23x its own typical post.
- What is Democracy Now!'s engagement rate on X?
- Democracy Now! (@democracynow) has an engagement rate of 0.008%, based on the median interactions across 78 original posts from the last 30 days against 799,476 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.008%, Democracy Now! sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,852 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 @democracynow have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 @democracynow post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.6 posts per day across the measured window.