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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

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.008%
of 799K followers
Per impression
0.631%
10K views on a typical post
Reach
1.31%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
66
interactions (median)
Saved
0.029%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.6/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Friday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,852 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,564 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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

    815610513527K viewsView on X
  • 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

    697377121221K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202615x their median

    Alex Pretti’s Family Calls for Accountability Seven Months After His Killing by Federal Agents https://t.co/KAOgDuzKsK

    82516710422K viewsView on X
  • 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

    55420914624K viewsView on X
  • 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

    29915712616K viewsView on X
  • 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

    28592181328K viewsView on X
  • 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

    231731621K viewsView on X
  • 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

    206943115K viewsView on X
  • 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

    195868516K viewsView on X
  • 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

    205852112K 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 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.

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