Edward Dowd engagement report
@DowdEdward - 405K followers on X
Measured over 25 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 560 interactions against 405K followers, an engagement rate of 0.138%. Measured over 25 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 21,185 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 48K times each, and 1.17% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 25 posts sampled, 52% carry an image or video and 52% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.
Measured over 25 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026. Recurring tag: #ab241.
Compared with accounts its own size
Edward Dowd's engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 51% 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 0.138%, Edward Dowd sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,098 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.147%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.698% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 16:00 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% | 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 | 52% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 52% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 52% 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.
- 52% 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 306 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 2, 20264.4x their median
WSJ takes a crack at how the bond selloff affects real life. @WSJ https://t.co/HOOgPOfD8h https://t.co/K84XFQ42ut
- Jul 6, 20264.1x their median
Excited to launch my new Substack! Welcome to Ed Dowd: Beyond the Narrative. https://t.co/ImpJVxJDpi https://t.co/mp8Apz6KDC
- Sep 25, 20263.3x their median
The CDC’s new guidelines for Covid-19 vaccines in a nutshell: For healthy adults and unhealthy adults and children, don’t seek their input – just inject. For healthy children, seek the parents’ input first and if the parents consent (a.k.a., shared clinical decision making), then inject (off-label given this vaccine is not licensed for healthy children.) The CDC’s lack of respect for informed consent and individual rights will continue to erode what little trust remains in this agency and will ultimately be its undoing. https://t.co/alzslYLNsL
- Sep 3, 20263.1x their median
Wonder what was the cause of these coincidences? 🤔 https://t.co/qj6wh8aqnx
- Aug 31, 20262.2x their median
Scapegoat incoming👇…the system itself is inherently unstable. Bank of England chief warns new AI models threaten global financial stability https://t.co/jkuXssE3CO
- Sep 17, 20262.0x their median
"How can they tell me not to wear a condom?" Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the reason AI labs supplement the cost of tokens is to steal your alpha: "The reason tokens are discounted is not so they can grow the market. They're discounted so that they can get access to your IP so that their models get better. And there was functionally no honest conversation about this or disclosure." "Our partners are livid. The kind of safety they're most upset about is what they believe is the theft of their alpha." Via @CNBC
- Sep 4, 20261.8x their median
Dr Long is looking into things. @LTCTheresaLong RFK Jr. is investigating whether troops died of Covid vaccine, Army doctor says - POLITICO https://t.co/CxsMCMYtkf
- Sep 5, 2026
This is a real post. Apparently threatening tariffs on other countries unless the Fed cuts rates? 🤦🏻♂️ https://t.co/KcPIPZbb1N
- Aug 31, 2026
When I was a young man pitching bonds to institutional investors for HSBC, oddly I did not employ the tactic of saying “If you don’t buy my bonds you will be a poor redneck.” 🤣😂
- Sep 17, 2026
Joined the Tech Report to discuss how Microsoft only has 2GW of AI chips in service, suggesting that it has at least $82 billion of GPUs in warehouses, and that the industry as a whole may have pre-purchased anywhere from $100 billion to $300bn of GPUs. https://t.co/fFxolVKB31
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 560 interactions against 405K followers, an engagement rate of 0.138%. Measured over 25 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 21,185 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 48K times each, and 1.17% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.8% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 25 posts sampled, 52% carry an image or video and 52% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.
- What is Edward Dowd's engagement rate on X?
- Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) has an engagement rate of 0.138%, based on the median interactions across 25 original posts from the last 30 days against 404,949 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.138%, Edward Dowd sits above the 25th percentile of the 213,098 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 @DowdEdward have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @DowdEdward post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.67 posts per day across the measured window.