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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER engagement report

@doctorow - 451K followers on X

Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.009%
of 451K followers
Per impression
0.651%
6.4K views on a typical post
Reach
1.41%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
42
interactions (median)
Saved
0.118%
8 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.6/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
07:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 42 interactions against 451K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,792 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 6.4K times each, and 0.651% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.41% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 108 interactions, about 2.6x its own typical post.

Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER's engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 0.009%, Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,759 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,964 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 percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.4%

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 07:00 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: 07:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 07:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
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 10, 20262.6x their median

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction") at https://t.co/d6Ncfovr7v It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/QB9Cv98Gqf And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/meBrCPZqY0

    8622009.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20261.9x their median

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("The actual epistemic crisis") at https://t.co/XbSwwIJm6C It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/khfvGs1aOY And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/jDNzxcQ4FA https://t.co/eq2G1zmV5i

    5916127.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 2026

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Model collapse") at https://t.co/nGUFQfk24S It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/eBdySMdP9o And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/lNcN3jIBon https://t.co/bsS8W09K3z

    4216006.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 2026

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Surveillance vs guillotines") at https://t.co/vs2uNCOpLn It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/nfjAZW6xoI And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/vmT5JDyt0A https://t.co/AD7BtW4eow

    4314106.4K viewsView on X
  • Jun 27, 2026

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers") at https://t.co/9SxzwT6v0w It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/wjA9oJr60j And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/Ir4Pg7RWN7

    4313118.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 2026

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("The age of disinvention") at https://t.co/vfh9RWkuOM It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/4oqVDj15xl And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/spcpgEVZoo https://t.co/rlL9PccJlC

    487207.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 2026

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Digital sewer socialism") at https://t.co/bTfhrlGXLX It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/jA7X54sUqP And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/QDaihOjihG https://t.co/oKJ2QtN6ya

    4112128.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 2026

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Eternal Sloptember") at https://t.co/Tt6FLzAk0B It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/lK7pbP4gjZ And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/pgWsY0kLzl https://t.co/T5aAQ8YAOk

    4312007.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 2026

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Why businesses lie about AI") at https://t.co/aSPMM71S9l It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/yZs6nHbzsQ And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/oMZCwhOqi8 https://t.co/dPHEBgEBkJ

    3615127.7K viewsView on X
  • Jul 13, 2026

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers?") at https://t.co/B5wOCXXqbK It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/owyV86j8by And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/Xhlsd1eOi1

    338413.7K 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 42 interactions against 451K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 30% of 3,792 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 6.4K times each, and 0.651% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.41% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.6 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 108 interactions, about 2.6x its own typical post.

What is Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER's engagement rate on X?
Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER (@doctorow) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 451,068 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.009%, Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @doctorow have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 30% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 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 @doctorow post?
Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.6 posts per day across the measured window.

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