Dan Held engagement report
@danheld - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 454 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.034%. Posts are seen about 39K times each, and 1.16% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 43% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 43K interactions, about 78x its own typical post.
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 31, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.034%, Dan Held sits above the 25th percentile of the 217,857 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.149%.
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 | 82.6% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 43% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 8% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 43% 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.
- 8% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 170 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
- Jul 12, 202678x their median
It might seem hypocritical that Variety praises Moana for respecting Polynesian culture while attacking you for wanting Nolan’s Odyssey to respect Greek culture. But there’s actually a consistent moral through-line: They just hate White people. https://t.co/IrMfEXOvDA
- Aug 13, 202648x their median
BREAKING: The US Government officially posts its largest July budget deficit in history, at -$432 billion, due to an acceleration in federal spending. Interest on US debt rose +$26 billion from last July's levels to an alarming $118 billion for the month. This puts total interest expense for FY2026 up to $1.17 trillion in FY2026. As a result, interest expense has officially surpassed both National Defense and Medicare spending. In other words, the US government now spends more money just on interest than it does to fund the entire US Military or to provide healthcare for seniors. We cannot afford higher interest rates.
- Nov 13, 202432x their median
Here's a fun target for higher education reform: Reverse the Biden administration's choice to subsidize the least productive degrees while penalizing people for majoring in productive subjects. https://t.co/YePjaxjrlN
- Aug 14, 202626x their median
Anyone still pretending that an entire generation of young White men has not been systematically excluded from vast swaths of jobs, professions, industries, and institutions is either hopelessly uninformed or deliberately lying. https://t.co/0d4bRsmdSc
- Jul 20, 202616x their median
Hasan Piker: Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world https://t.co/b1DGAXQgKJ
- Jul 16, 202614x their median
for anyone in tech with money: the annual percentage they want to take from you each year via asset seizure is what you should be plowing into super pacs, NGOs, and media influencers right now to beat back marxism. the hour's late, and nobody else is coming to save you.
- Oct 27, 202615x their median
A brutal year for Bitcoin is just getting started. Give me three minutes to explain why you should dump it now. Outflows from ETFs are signal and will continue. We will test the 57k low again in the next 12 months. Why? Because there are far too many dynamic places to put your money that are creating MUCH more value. Why put your resources into a dead network that offers nothing beyond a store of value? What's the point of place the BTC be if Bitcoin's Ponzi-scheme nature has gone away!?! The viral nature of bitcoin was it's power... if you didn't own you were MOCKED! Now? Completely reasonable, heck, SMARTER, to ignore bitcoin and place other bets! No one is trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin anymore... the memes and NFTs are gone. No one is saying $ BTC can change the world, because it won't — and BECAUSE AI HAS! Just sell and shift from Bitcoin to Super Intelligence because one provides little to no value, and the other provides unlimited upside for humanity. This should be obvious to everyone right now. Bitcoin will never break its all-time high again.
- Sep 22, 202615x their median
Total wealth of US billionaires = $9 trillion. If we confiscated all of their wealth, we'd only be able to run the federal government for about 14 months. Perhaps our problem isn’t how much billionaires have but how much politicians spend.
- Jul 18, 20269.9x their median
https://t.co/wmUErVBFOo
- Oct 23, 202611x their median
France ranks #1 in taxes and social spending among developed nations, and protesters are demanding MORE of both? What’s French for idiocy? https://t.co/uEnqzraCbx
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.
Buy or sell Twitter (X) accounts - escrow-protected
PlayerSells is an escrow marketplace for Twitter (X) accounts. Every deal is protected, with no middleman risk.
Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 454 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.034%. Posts are seen about 39K times each, and 1.16% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 43% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 43K interactions, about 78x its own typical post.
- What is Dan Held's engagement rate on X?
- Dan Held (@danheld) has an engagement rate of 0.034%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,335,492 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.034%, Dan Held sits above the 25th percentile of the 217,857 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 @danheld have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @danheld post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.