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Freelancers Union engagement report

@freelancersu - 85K followers on X

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.012%
of 85K followers
Per impression
1.44%
694 views on a typical post
Reach
0.81%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
10
interactions (median)
Saved
0.144%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.73/day
active 50% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 10 interactions against 85K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 694 times each, and 1.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.812% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 173 interactions, about 17x its own typical post.

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 30, 2026. Recurring tag: #sagaftra.

Compared with accounts its own size

Freelancers Union's engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 51% 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 0.012%, Freelancers Union sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 16:00 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video93% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link53% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 93% 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.
  • 53% 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 250 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

  • Apr 20, 202317x their median

    PSA: With the loss of our blue check mark, we just wanted to remind you that @freelancersu and @nyc_hub are the ONLY official twitter accounts for the Freelancers Union!

    77587418K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20267.5x their median

    NEW VICTORY- Deliveristas won a historic $131.5 million DoorDash settlement! This victory belongs to the courageous workers who organized, and fought back when their wages were stolen and built a powerful union - @LosDeliveristas. Thank you, @NYCMayor @helloDCWP. https://t.co/WNTOjsgFRl

    4821334.7K viewsView on X
  • Jun 16, 20268.4x their median

    When our former Executive Director @rlespinal was appointed by Mayor Mamdani to become the new @madeinny Commissioner, we knew that we would have big shoes to fill. We're thrilled to announce that Chief of Staff @AndreaGordillo will be our new Executive Director https://t.co/SEFal3bvY5

    4697510K viewsView on X
  • Jul 8, 20264.2x their median

    Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training. @dzalcman, a leading photojournalist, assesses the stakes. https://t.co/wE23w67D9O

    2516013.8K viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 20262.8x their median

    To be a freelancer, you need clients, plain and simple. Delano Saporu would say finding clients - and finding the right ones - is what you need to put first when you start out on your freelance journey. Read advice from Delano and 29 other freelancers: https://t.co/m2U9WX2SPr https://t.co/nLBZbyoLcn

    151210757 viewsView on X
  • Sep 18, 20262.1x their median

    Congrats again to our very own @andreagordillo for being honored by @cityandstateny on their Labor Power 100 list! Andrea attended their reception alongside many other labor leaders - all of whom are ready to put power back where it belongs - in the hands of the people https://t.co/YxQXI9ZVZ6

    14610899 viewsView on X
  • Jun 26, 20262.3x their median

    Happy Pride from the Freelancers Union 🌈 https://t.co/DzRtNEd6d3

    16200748 viewsView on X
  • Jul 9, 20261.7x their median

    Freelance photographers deserve more than assurances. They deserve enforceable rights that protect their livelihoods from corporate decisions that prioritize profits and AI partnerships over the people whose work creates value. https://t.co/k79mTYMLpB

    96201.1K viewsView on X
  • Jul 4, 20261.5x their median

    Happy 4th to all of the freelancers out there, who know a thing or two about declaring independence 🎆 https://t.co/uD1SIHSSTj

    9600568 viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 2026

    This is a win for freelancers and creators everywhere. We commend the judge for making this decision as it builds the necessary precedent for artists to protect their original works from being used to train AI without disclosure or payment. https://t.co/xxunHXh7dw

    103011.1K 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.

Recurring topics

#sagaftra

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 10 interactions against 85K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 19% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 694 times each, and 1.44% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.812% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.73 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 53% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 173 interactions, about 17x its own typical post.

What is Freelancers Union's engagement rate on X?
Freelancers Union (@freelancersu) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 85,497 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.012%, Freelancers Union sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 @freelancersu have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 19% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @freelancersu post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.73 posts per day across the measured window.

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