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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

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.138%
of 405K followers
Per impression
1.17%
48K views on a typical post
Reach
11.8%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
560
interactions (median)
Saved
0.086%
41 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.67/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Thursday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.147%
p750.698%
p902.61%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 213,098 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,393 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.147%
75th percentile0.698%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.9%

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.

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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video52% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link52% 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

    1.9K4583962209K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.8K3798520399K viewsView on X
  • 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

    1.4K385912361K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20263.1x their median

    Wonder what was the cause of these coincidences? 🤔 https://t.co/qj6wh8aqnx

    1.4K2041101743K viewsView on X
  • 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

    927244551832K viewsView on X
  • 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

    9041244137420K viewsView on X
  • 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

    74719240735K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 2026

    This is a real post. Apparently threatening tariffs on other countries unless the Fed cuts rates? 🤦🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/KcPIPZbb1N

    62167120845K viewsView on X
  • 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.” 🤣😂

    6495841529K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5441132918137K 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.

Recurring topics

#ab241

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.

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