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Foreign Policy engagement report

@ForeignPolicy - 1.3M followers on X

Measured over 147 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 1.3M followers
Per impression
0.12%
10K views on a typical post
Reach
0.79%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
12
interactions (median)
Saved
0.02%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.03/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
21:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 147 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 3,774 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 10K times each, and 0.12% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.794% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 147 posts sampled, 6% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 261 interactions, about 22x its own typical post.

Measured over 147 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Foreign Policy's engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 9% 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 0.001%, Foreign Policy sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 21:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 21:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 21:00 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%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 31, 202622x their median

    The story of Roy Cohn, and his influence on Trump, helps explain what is happening now, Michael Hirsh writes. https://t.co/RZW90ct5Jc

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  • Jun 15, 202618x their median

    What does it mean when the rules that had quietly structured political life until now are rendered obsolete? In FP’s latest print package, our writers and contributors survey the extent of the damage. https://t.co/dU7uP6FeUK

    6013812034K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202617x their median

    Trump’s been one of the most consequential presidents in U.S. history—in all the wrong ways. https://t.co/WGM1iRiBZz

    135537720K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202616x their median

    For students and graduates pursuing a career in international affairs, here are 12 tips on how to land a first job in the field. From Luke Coffey: https://t.co/JK3c9oLOeN

    144372498K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202612x their median

    After the fall of the Assad regime and with both Hezbollah and Iran weakened, Israel and Turkey see a vacuum and are competing to shape the region, writes Anchal Vohra. https://t.co/bB4rwEwr1E

    1013210431K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20268.1x their median

    Are you thinking about going to graduate school to study international affairs? If so, this column is for you. https://t.co/93GlxlZY3X

    75220024K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20267.8x their median

    A State Department program that would see defense tech companies Palantir and Anduril provide expertise on digital freedom-of-speech issues is raising eyebrows among some experts, write Sam Skove and Rishi Iyengar. https://t.co/gDrmUeZclg

    59277120K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20266.7x their median

    Popularized by political historian @AntonJaegermm, ‘hyperpolitics’ helps explain how political movements today surge and then vanish without changing any underlying sources of power. Jäger will join FP Live on Aug. 20 at 12:00PM ET to discuss this paradox. Register here: https://t.co/1FKMl0hrH7

    63161015K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20266.2x their median

    The U.S. military remains remarkably capable, demonstrating even in this poorly conceived war technical capabilities that no other military can currently match—but U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded of the military not one impossible task, but three, Bret Devereaux argues. Read for free: https://t.co/r1vufnH6Th

    54180215K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20266.2x their median

    When the United States froze humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, it eliminated one of the last footholds that Afghan women had in public life. https://t.co/tSPzZqMs1Z

    38323114K 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 12 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 147 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 3,774 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 10K times each, and 0.12% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.794% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 147 posts sampled, 6% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 261 interactions, about 22x its own typical post.

What is Foreign Policy's engagement rate on X?
Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 147 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,261,176 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, Foreign Policy sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @ForeignPolicy have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @ForeignPolicy post?
Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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