Richard W. Painter engagement report
@RWPUSA - 642K followers on X
Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 58 interactions against 642K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 4,273 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 7.2K times each, and 0.811% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 37% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 32x its own typical post.
Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 2, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Richard W. Painter's engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,273 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 46% 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 0.009%, Richard W. Painter sits above the 10th percentile of the 41,299 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.013%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.445% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 144.1% |
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 00:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 02:00 UTC | -4% | 57K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 49K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 47K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 07:00 UTC | -4% | 59K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 69K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 80K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 82K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 90K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 108K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 111K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 115K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 111K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 104K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 65K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 253K |
| Monday | +1% | 324K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 348K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 309K |
| Thursday | -2% | 264K |
| Friday | -3% | 274K |
| Saturday | +3% | 247K |
Best tweets
- Aug 30, 202632x their median
Hasan Piker has crossed the line between criticizing the Israeli government and publicly attacking American Jews who support Israel's right to exist. He is a bigot. Any politician who associates with him should be voted down in November. https://t.co/15r5vQXhmw
- Aug 30, 202621x their median
Read the First Amendment Mr. President. The Federal Communications Commission is not the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. https://t.co/sOjl9RJ8MZ
- Aug 5, 202616x their median
Once again, @TheJusticeDept refuses to open the Epstein files. They've been stonewalling since Epstein's death in 2019. https://t.co/gfLkeIUrXV
- Nov 11, 20258.1x their median
Now available from @CambridgeUP My new book coauthored with E. Thomas Sullivan, The U.S. Presidency: Power, Responsibility and Accountability https://t.co/iKJuAGDTjM
- Aug 10, 20265.2x their median
This bill has the right objective but the wrong prohibition. The law should bar all federal officials, including the president, from posting nonpublic government information on any social media platform that sells preferential access for trading. https://t.co/OfAzp4jsXM
- Aug 24, 20264.1x their median
This sure looks like voter suppression. https://t.co/E0QJQkZAyQ
- Aug 10, 20263.4x their median
Art and music schools where Jeffrey Epstein had close ties have had many separate incidents of sexual abuse on campus. This includes Interlochen in Michigan and @BardCollege in New York. That is why many of us are demanding INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS. https://t.co/aCz5LDO6Yd
- Aug 27, 20262.8x their median
As I argue here, the Supreme Court should grant cert. in the second E. Jean Carroll case. In a wide range of contexts civil and criminal, it is now vitally important that the Court define the difference between personal and official acts of the president. https://t.co/Pv36aaOidC
- Aug 26, 20262.6x their median
Everyone is free to poop. But wiping oneself afterwards will soon become a luxury. https://t.co/0m0U6c5GoN
- Aug 19, 20261.9x their median
Pillow man says what? https://t.co/j1vAC48yDL
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 58 interactions against 642K followers, an engagement rate of 0.009%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 31% of 4,273 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 7.2K times each, and 0.811% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 37% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 32x its own typical post.
- What is Richard W. Painter's engagement rate on X?
- Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) has an engagement rate of 0.009%, based on the median interactions across 27 original posts from the last 30 days against 642,438 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.009%, Richard W. Painter sits above the 10th percentile of the 41,299 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 @RWPUSA have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 31% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,273 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 @RWPUSA post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.3 posts per day across the measured window.