Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science engagement report
@rdfrs - 93K followers on X
Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 19, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 2 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 17 interactions against 93K followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Posts are seen about 1.9K times each, and 0.907% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 92x its own typical post. Only 2 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 2 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 19, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.018%, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,676 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 | 0.679% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 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.
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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 0% 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 436 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Feb 6, 202692x their median
"You don’t 'observe' the Earth orbiting the Sun. You infer it from evidence. Evolution works the same way." — @RichardDawkins, Darwin Day Q&A https://t.co/Cg2Wr8DLqA
- Mar 6, 202622x their median
Sam Harris will receive the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award. @RichardDawkins will present it on April 18, followed by a conversation between them. For anyone who remembers the early New Atheism debates, this should be an interesting one: https://t.co/0Q3viunLjO https://t.co/1e4sYszQh8
- Mar 25, 202617x their median
Fifty years ago, The Selfish Gene reframed how we understand life. Think like a gene, and suddenly things click: why bats share blood, why viruses spread, why life behaves the way it does. Still one of the most useful lenses evolution ever gave us: https://t.co/tvyOgaDkkl
- Feb 13, 202616x their median
Careful observation. Evidence over authority. Still a good standard. Happy Darwin Day. https://t.co/4DbMWotqac
- Jun 17, 20263.4x their median
"@RichardDawkins now calls himself a cultural Christian." The headline surprised people, but the explanation shouldn't. You can inherit a culture without accepting its beliefs. That's his argument in this new essay: https://t.co/3QBeS6JixG And yes... he's still an atheist. https://t.co/dwYEDsbYPF
- Feb 18, 20262.2x their median
The Center for Inquiry is excited to announce that SAM HARRIS has been selected to receive the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award. Read the full announcement here: https://t.co/9ys3ForstZ
- Mar 12, 20262.1x their median
Some critics say atheism is incomplete because it doesn’t tell us how to live. @RALindsay argues that atheism’s honesty about human responsibility may be exactly what some find unsettling. Worth a read. From @FreeInquiry: https://t.co/KHV74ZGHjA https://t.co/uaSWzsISRd
- Aug 31, 2026
We find ourselves surrounded by examples of the dangers involved when policymakers take action without understanding (or even caring to understand) what the evidence says will result. The antidote to this is not despair or surrender. It’s to rededicate ourselves to the concept of lifelong learning. To be open to new evidence and able to prioritize that evidence over our emotions and “gut instincts.” And to help others understand that, as Richard Dawkins stated, science is “the only reliable path to understanding the universe in which we briefly reside.” https://t.co/qTQy3nOzT8
- Apr 8, 2026
You didn’t choose what you just thought. Your brain did and told you after. @Evolutionistrue argues that the kind of free will most people believe in is an illusion: https://t.co/ZvZZJNHUxN https://t.co/m24ztzLlzE
- Feb 26, 2026
From the newsletter: "We know that the power of science is its ability to help us see and understand the world as it is. The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science is home to a vibrant community of people committed to understanding (and improving) the world on its own empirical terms, and I am grateful to have you with us to support that work." https://t.co/GhNeKyysAC
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 17 interactions against 93K followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Posts are seen about 1.9K times each, and 0.907% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.07 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 2 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.6K interactions, about 92x its own typical post. Only 2 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science's engagement rate on X?
- Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science (@rdfrs) has an engagement rate of 0.018%, based on the median interactions across 2 original posts from the last 30 days against 92,737 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.018%, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science sits above the 10th percentile of the 205,676 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 @rdfrs have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @rdfrs post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.07 posts per day across the measured window.