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David Corn engagement report

@DavidCornDC - 867K followers on X

Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.139%
of 867K followers
Per impression
0.736%
164K views on a typical post
Reach
18.9%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.2K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.03%
50 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.87/day
active 50% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 1.2K interactions against 867K followers, an engagement rate of 0.139%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,809 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 164K times each, and 0.736% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 18.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 45K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.

Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

David Corn's engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 43% 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 0.139%, David Corn sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,960 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.435%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,960 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,518 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 17:00 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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%73K
11:00 UTC-3%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-2%96K
14:00 UTC-4%99K
15:00 UTC-2%102K
16:00 UTC-3%99K
17:00 UTC-2%92K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-2%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-2%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
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 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%233K
Monday0%292K
Tuesday-3%284K
Wednesday-1%253K
Thursday-2%246K
Friday-3%255K
Saturday+3%229K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 24, 202637x their median

    Maxime: You want to know how I ended up here? About two months ago, I recorded a video asking Mayor Mamdani to help open the playground in McKinley Park. It had been closed for almost two years. A few weeks later, the park was finally open. Thank you, Mayor Mamdani. https://t.co/HG77M5zdEl

    39K5.3K267324925K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202621x their median

    Jihadi Mamdani does not belong as Mayor of NYC. He needs to be denaturalized and sent back home to Uganda. I’ve had enough of his garbage.

    19K2.5K3.2K3301.5M viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 202620x their median

    Everyone knew.

    19K2.7K2.4K255379K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 202614x their median

    WaPo reports Trump secretly funneled almost $1B into the White House “housekeeping” account for renovations. Without asking Congress. Feels like the right day to repost this video & remind him: we’re undoing ALL of it when you’re gone. https://t.co/0MI7dvncWp

    12K5.2K275131181K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20269.4x their median

    Gardasil HPV vaccine prevents cancer and is on the way to eliminating cervical cancer in many countries RFK Jr said it causes cancer Even by his desperately low standards, this is an absolutely whopping piece of bullshit https://t.co/sq2CEqGsqx

    8.9K2.2K20466170K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20265.9x their median

    Jon Ossoff’s sexist attacks on Natalie Harp cross the line. Say what you will about President Trump, but he has always treated women with respect. You can disagree with his politics, but you cannot knock his professionalism and class. Ossoff has a lot to learn.

    1.0K935.6K390573K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20264.5x their median

    Trump: “Iran is going fine, going just absolutely fine. We totally control the Strait of Hormuz. We have control over it. Nobody else, only us.” (This is a lie) https://t.co/4dBxFLRiV3

    4.0K706538168629K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20263.8x their median

    Trump said we'd grow "like nobody's ever grown before." Bessent promised 3% growth by the end of 2026. Instead, growth decelerated from 2.8% under Biden to 1.8% thus far this year. My @nytopinion Chart: https://t.co/pRxat8FJeA

    3.0K1.4K11290164K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20263.4x their median

    WELKER: How is Trump's pardons of 172 people who assaulted police officers consistent with your pledge to always protect law enforcement? BLANCHE: The president's pardon powers are not limited WELKER: But do you believe it was wrong to pardon people who assaulted police officers on J6? BLANCHE: Absolutely not. That's the president's right

    2.8K749352156392K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20263.2x their median

    I think their bobblehead is defective. https://t.co/NhJvPuFhs7

    3.0K38940268517K 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 1.2K interactions against 867K followers, an engagement rate of 0.139%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,809 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 164K times each, and 0.736% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 18.9% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 45K interactions, about 37x its own typical post.

What is David Corn's engagement rate on X?
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) has an engagement rate of 0.139%, based on the median interactions across 29 original posts from the last 30 days against 867,200 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.139%, David Corn sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,960 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 @DavidCornDC have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @DavidCornDC post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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