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Richard Medhurst engagement report

@richimedhurst - 551K followers on X

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 17, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.039%
of 551K followers
Per impression
0.921%
23K views on a typical post
Reach
4.26%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
216
interactions (median)
Saved
0.068%
16 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.43/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
22:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 216 interactions against 551K followers, an engagement rate of 0.039%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 20,444 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 23K times each, and 0.921% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 40% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 44K interactions, about 205x its own typical post.

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 17, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Richard Medhurst's engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 45% 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 0.039%, Richard Medhurst sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

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 22:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 22:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 22:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 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.
  • 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 257 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

  • Oct 1, 2020205x their median

    My statement outside the Old Bailey on the #Assange extradition hearing. https://t.co/QiUhNNf1sv

    29K11K3.2K1.0KView on X
  • Aug 23, 20263.3x their median

    I've been telling you since March/April that a US blockade was coming, that it would hold, and that the US would dominate the oil and gas market. I was proven correct on all points. An analyst who only tells you what you want to hear over and over is feeding you garbage.

    432512092080K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.5x their median

    I promise you, no government on this planet views the world in terms of "good" and "evil". The only thing they care about is their own self-interest. That is the only worldview they have. Internalize this and resist the primal urge to root for one team or the other.

    3445112623107K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20261.9x their median

    Notice how Trump doesn't send a fleet to North Korea but goes in person. How can we explain or rationalize this? Does it perhaps have something to do with the fact NK have a strategic deterrent?

    3204349721K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20261.9x their median

    Iran tried the strategy of "nuclear hedging" and suffice to say it didn't work. If you want actual deterrence, you need an actual deterrent. No shortcuts.

    3172951531K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20261.5x their median

    Israeli officials are coordinating directly with Syrian and Lebanese officials. When I look at these facts, I see evidence of US influence increasing in the region — not declining. Anyone who tells you otherwise is dealing in wishful thinking and out of touch with reality.

    2302967724K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 2026

    When people critique imperialism, what they are really critiquing are the mechanics of power. The problem is that no great power can behave differently. They all have to play by the same rules. There are no “good” powers—only amoral actors operating in a jungle. No unicorns.

    147181141926K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 2026

    People think some American politicians are "hawkish" — they should read Ancient Greece. It's funny how blunt people were back then, because they hadn't quite ironed out the kinks of decorum. As I keep saying: the US aren't doing anything that hasn't already been done before.

    15113921325K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 2026

    Real commerce happens by sea, not by land. It's infinitely cheaper to send cargo by ship — and this will not change any time soon. Land routes are not a viable method to bypassing a US naval blockade. Whoever rules the waves, controls global trade.

    147960721K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 2026

    We happen by chance to be alive during the apogee of the US/Anglo-American bloc. But 2500-3000 years ago the Persians, Neo-Assyrians, Athenians, etc. would look & behave no different. To me, this presents two things: an indictment of human nature and a presentism bias.

    13211631122K 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 216 interactions against 551K followers, an engagement rate of 0.039%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 20,444 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 23K times each, and 0.921% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 40% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 44K interactions, about 205x its own typical post.

What is Richard Medhurst's engagement rate on X?
Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) has an engagement rate of 0.039%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 550,895 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.039%, Richard Medhurst sits above the 25th 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 @richimedhurst have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @richimedhurst post?
Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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