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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.