Foreign Policy engagement report
@ForeignPolicy - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 518 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 5.6K times each, and 0.213% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.445% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 17.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 518 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.2K interactions, about 351x its own typical post.
Measured over 518 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #unga81.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.001%, Foreign Policy sits below the 10th percentile of the 217,973 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
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 13:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 9% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 99% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 9% 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.
- 99% 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 174 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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
- Sep 30, 2026351x their median
Trump has made one of Xi’s most dangerous potential miscalculations significantly more likely. https://t.co/ZjpnDMDiZf
- Sep 3, 2026220x their median
After more than seven years in office, Zelensky appears to have lost his nation’s political support. https://t.co/vXbR8ysjxD
- Oct 8, 2026198x their median
Thousands of protesters are marching toward Islamabad, putting pressure on the government to free former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been imprisoned for more than three years. https://t.co/h7JVo5609c
- Sep 16, 2026111x their median
Few Americans have the vocabulary to describe what’s making them miserable. https://t.co/ALeZxnlop3
- Sep 5, 2026111x their median
U.S. recognition of Somaliland would risk the ire of Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. But it may be worth the anger, writes columnist @stevenacook. https://t.co/g77LuCcFnI
- Sep 6, 2026110x their median
Recent polling points to a major mood swing among Ukrainians, suggesting that many have lost faith in Zelensky and would vote him out of office at the earliest opportunity. https://t.co/vXbR8ysjxD
- Sep 5, 2026107x their median
Numerous scandals inside the heart of Zelensky’s office have shaken public confidence, and his system of rule through close confidants is a shambles. https://t.co/vXbR8ysjxD
- Sep 21, 202687x their median
In 19 months, Washington has lost ground to Beijing on every conceivable front. https://t.co/5rjJE1RA0E
- Sep 28, 202685x their median
A bribed leader might tell you what you want to hear, but that doesn’t mean they can deliver, writes Nicholas Grossman. https://t.co/rvBItjy6Oo
- Oct 16, 202679x their median
The recent widespread detentions in New Delhi do not signal absolute power; they appear as cracks in Modi’s strongman image. https://t.co/056DMDz6Po
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 12 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 5.6K times each, and 0.213% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.445% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 17.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 518 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 99% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.2K interactions, about 351x 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 518 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,264,456 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 217,973 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?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @ForeignPolicy post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 17.73 posts per day across the measured window.