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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 93% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 53% 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jun 26, 20262.3x their median
Happy Pride from the Freelancers Union 🌈 https://t.co/DzRtNEd6d3
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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.