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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER engagement report

@doctorow - 451K followers on X

Measured over 21 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.005%
of 451K followers
Per impression
0.744%
3.2K views on a typical post
Reach
0.72%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
24
interactions (median)
Saved
0.062%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.83/day
active 70% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 24 interactions against 451K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 21 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 21,185 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 3.2K times each, and 0.744% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.716% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 21 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 226 interactions, about 9.4x its own typical post.

Measured over 21 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 39% 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 0.005%, Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,741 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.697%
p902.61%
p9982.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,741 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,375 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 percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.697%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.8%

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 11:00 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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 11:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% 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.
  • 100% 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 272 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

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    172485142K viewsView on X
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    8225249.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 20264.6x their median

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("LLMs are real, AI is fake") at https://t.co/MlGLc8jilP It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/Uwe853wsn7 And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/PKMqVw0P5q https://t.co/KWAtzq112A

    712321415K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20264.5x 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

    8522009.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20264.1x their median

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses") at https://t.co/ZanBtJY05r It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/juaqgLcbdK And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/t0xRKmI59p https://t.co/E11VjPPCEf

    7223036.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20263.5x their median

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("How corporate America built a better Roach Motel") at https://t.co/3ywJRMwg2N It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/uUavOY1V0V And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/RwtiTNY90G https://t.co/FxiMgNNJkM

    59212210K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20263.3x 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

    5916127.9K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 20262.6x their median

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Anti-vax/anti-trust") at https://t.co/HzyrQE7YeI It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/4n7H4nPi3N And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/yWMqJBINtI https://t.co/pt6DgXOMi5

    548007.1K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20262.5x their median

    I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("Amazon achieves enshittification inception") at https://t.co/p9TbTAAVtB It's also available on Mastodon at: https://t.co/8x5R44m7qi And on Bluesky at: https://t.co/2UN7lEuaYq https://t.co/mVbDvbCtAe

    4512307.6K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.4x their median

    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

    497208.1K 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 24 interactions against 451K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 21 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 21,185 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 3.2K times each, and 0.744% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.716% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.83 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 21 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 226 interactions, about 9.4x 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 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 21 original posts from the last 30 days against 450,670 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.005%, Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,741 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 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 11:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.83 posts per day across the measured window.

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