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Timothy Snyder engagement report

@TimothyDSnyder - 583K followers on X

Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.315%
of 583K followers
Per impression
5.38%
34K views on a typical post
Reach
5.85%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.8K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.185%
63 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.3/day
active 63% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 1.8K interactions against 583K followers, an engagement rate of 0.315%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 34K times each, and 5.38% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 79% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 58K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.

Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Timothy Snyder's engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 92% 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 0.315%, Timothy Snyder sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.433%.

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.
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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 18:00 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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 18:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
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

  • Nov 11, 202031x their median

    1/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional.

    37K15K2.0K4.7KView on X
  • Aug 4, 20263.0x their median

    We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps. https://t.co/UcGqgyCwpq

    3.8K1.5K803255K viewsView on X
  • Jul 21, 20262.9x their median

    Trump is pursuing this war in the HOPE that Iran carries out an act of terror in the US. And even if it doesn’t, which I doubt it will, consider the possibility that Trump's people would fake one. Please consider this essay, written back in March, as well as the last few lessons of "On Tyranny." https://t.co/DGESK91Jse

    3.8K1.5K583977K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20262.5x their median

    з нагоди дня незалежності… https://t.co/saEEOJlf0A

    4.2K33670448K viewsView on X
  • Jul 16, 20262.3x their median

    Lviv, July 2026 https://t.co/0jNxfm80p9

    3.9K24435762K viewsView on X
  • Jul 21, 20262.1x their median

    If you are interested in Russia’s electoral backing of Trump, read David Shimer’s book or Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s book or my "Road to Unfreedom." The people who want our country to break have always wanted this guy to be president.

    2.9K94034848K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20261.9x their median

    Son on the USS Lincoln, father in ICE detention. The son suffering during a senseless war abroad, the father suffering during a sadistic war on ourselves. https://t.co/Le00AidgIj

    2.5K919272533K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20261.7x their median

    This is grotesque and fascist. https://t.co/r3gxOy49JJ

    2.3K746372791K viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20261.6x their median

    Pedophilia is becoming the GOP mainstream https://t.co/89JTpxWLY0

    2.0K801503873K viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 2026

    Ukraine, July 2026 https://t.co/OFm3OEkBve

    2.5K20938850K 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 1.8K interactions against 583K followers, an engagement rate of 0.315%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 34K times each, and 5.38% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.85% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 25% carry an image or video and 79% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 58K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.

What is Timothy Snyder's engagement rate on X?
Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) has an engagement rate of 0.315%, based on the median interactions across 24 original posts from the last 30 days against 582,995 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.315%, Timothy Snyder sits above the 50th 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 @TimothyDSnyder have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @TimothyDSnyder post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.

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