Decision Desk HQ engagement report
@DecisionDeskHQ - 448K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 206 interactions against 448K followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 21,624 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 29K times each, and 0.7% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.58% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video, 90% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.7K interactions, about 8.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #aksen, #ky06, #nesen.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 29, 2026. Recurring tags: #aksen, #ky06, #nesen.
Compared with accounts its own size
Decision Desk HQ's engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 38% 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 0.046%, Decision Desk HQ sits above the 25th percentile of the 218,597 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.149%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.149% |
| 75th percentile | 0.705% |
| 90th percentile | 2.63% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 15:00 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 | 98% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 13% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 98% 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.
- 13% 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 262 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 21, 20268.5x their median
DDHQ FORECAST UPDATE (10/21): House FL-4: Likely Republican → Lean Republican FL-22: Lean Republican → Tossup MD-1: Safe Republican → Likely Republican Democrats now have a 78% probability of winning the House, and Republicans are favored in fewer than 200 seats. https://t.co/2g0ES4QGRE
- Oct 23, 20267.1x their median
DDHQ FORECAST UPDATE (10/23): House Democrats continue to gain ground in the House, and are now favored in 237 seats. Major shifts: AK-AL: Likely R → Lean R NC-1: Toss Up → Lean D PA-7: Lean D → Likely D TX-23: Likely R → Lean R https://t.co/hVQOS6WCgu
- Oct 22, 20265.5x their median
DDHQ FORECAST UPDATE (10/22): House Democrats now have a 78% chance to control the House, and a half-dozen seats have shifted towards them. Notable shifts: FL-4: Lean R → Likely R FL-13: Likely R → Lean R MO-2: Likely R → Lean R NV-2: Likely R → Lean R https://t.co/omoj5HPLiQ
- Oct 19, 20264.9x their median
DDHQ FORECAST UPDATE (10/19) FL-22: Tossup -> Leans R GA-7: Likely R -> Safe R MI-10: Toss Up -> Leans D Democrats now have a 77% probability of flipping the House. In our latest forecast update, Democrats are favored in 235 seats; 218 seats are needed for a majority. https://t.co/B2TcgRzXe6
- Oct 19, 20264.7x their median
DECISION DESK HQ RATINGS UPDATE (10/19): Senate Democrats: 56% Republicans: 44% Democrats remain favored to flip the Senate. They need to flip four seats to win control - our model currently forecasts Democrats to flip Alaska, Maine, North Carolina, and Texas. https://t.co/N4fFAmfmLz
- Oct 21, 20264.7x their median
DDHQ FORECAST UPDATE (10/21): Senate Democrats: 56% Republicans: 44% Democrats are favored to flip the Senate, with an expected seat total of 51. Forecasted flips: *Ohio:🟥>🟦(53%) *Texas:🟥>🟦(55%) *Maine:🟥>🟦(55%) *Alaska:🟥>🟦(61%) *North Carolina:🟥>🟦(86%) https://t.co/J46HRCPpam
- Oct 27, 20264.5x their median
One week until election day. The DDHQ Forecast favors Democrats in both the House and the Senate: House 🟦 Democrats - 80% 🟥 Republicans - 20% Senate 🟦 Democrats - 57% 🟥 Republicans - 43% Overall 🟦 Democratic - 55% 🟥 Republican - 19% 🟪 Split - 25% https://t.co/lsuAwJJQud
- Oct 20, 20264.2x their median
DDHQ FORECAST UPDATE Ohio: Tossup -> Leans Democratic Democrat Amy Acton is now the favorite to win Ohio's gubernatorial race. She has a 62% chance to win, with a projected margin of 52%-48% over Republican Vivek Ramaswamy. https://t.co/pd2RecGuGL
- Oct 26, 20264.1x their median
DDHQ FORECAST UPDATE (10/26): House Democrats now have a 79% chance of flipping the House. With a forecasted advantage in 238 seats, Democrats are at their widest lead of the cycle. 10 seats remain in the Toss Up column. https://t.co/vB9Qgh2wEd
- Oct 28, 20263.4x their median
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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 206 interactions against 448K followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 21,624 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 29K times each, and 0.7% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.58% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 98% carry an image or video, 90% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.7K interactions, about 8.5x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #aksen, #ky06, #nesen.
- What is Decision Desk HQ's engagement rate on X?
- Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) has an engagement rate of 0.046%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 448,395 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.046%, Decision Desk HQ sits above the 25th percentile of the 218,597 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 @DecisionDeskHQ have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 @DecisionDeskHQ post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.