ABC News Politics engagement report
@ABCPolitics - 1.1M followers on X
Measured over 44 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 24 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Posts are seen about 6.2K times each, and 0.387% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.547% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 44 posts sampled, 14% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 976 interactions, about 38x its own typical post.
Measured over 44 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.002%, ABC News Politics sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 Friday 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 | 14% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 14% 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.
- 100% 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 225 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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
- Oct 23, 202638x their median
JUST IN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ABC News on Friday that the Starlink network is still not working, despite assurances from President Trump. https://t.co/iLHmAORRiq
- Oct 23, 202615x their median
Pete Buttigieg is endorsing independent Montana U.S. Senate candidate Seth Bodnar, according to an announcement shared first with @ABC News. https://t.co/Ezg51adVWq
- Aug 27, 20268.0x their median
In the wake of American tariffs on Canadian goods and threats from President Trump to make Canada the 51st state, "elbows up" has taken on a second meaning: a rallying cry for Canadians to stand up, fight back and protect their sovereignty. https://t.co/6AFJzx1dCh
- Sep 25, 20267.7x their median
JUST IN: The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration the green light to use a federal citizenship database to verify voters ahead of the midterm elections. https://t.co/x9If2dtPUj
- Oct 22, 20266.5x their median
Federal authorities have indicted Virginia Democratic state senator L. Louise Lucas and several family members and associates on charges stemming from a yearslong marijuana trafficking conspiracy and corruption probe, according to the Justice Department. https://t.co/X91jjK0RxF
- Oct 23, 20265.4x their median
BREAKING: Two ex-FBI officials have been charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden’s laptop. https://t.co/mRXxlQkwyR
- Aug 21, 20265.0x their median
President Trump has announced that his administration has reached a "deal" to allow imports of up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef for the next 90 days, easing tariffs and claiming that it's part of an effort to lower the price of ground beef. https://t.co/wdXywPsQSj
- Aug 27, 20264.8x their median
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order changing the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America.” ABC News’ Kyra Phillips and Karen Travers have the latest. https://t.co/08nvUxUKEQ https://t.co/CcpiKczYfZ
- Oct 1, 20264.5x their median
BREAKING: The family of Renee Good filed two federal civil lawsuits against the U.S. government and several top federal officials over Good's fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this year. Read more: https://t.co/oSIuIgc3pA https://t.co/TDb2gbUfwE
- Sep 6, 20263.7x their median
BREAKING: An "armed individual" allegedly lunged at Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton while she was attending a local fair on Sunday, according to a spokesperson for her campaign. Read more: https://t.co/k8npfdc6Nz https://t.co/OkyAMuNGdq
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 24 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Posts are seen about 6.2K times each, and 0.387% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.547% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 44 posts sampled, 14% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 976 interactions, about 38x its own typical post.
- What is ABC News Politics's engagement rate on X?
- ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 44 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,132,753 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, ABC News Politics sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,152 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 @ABCPolitics have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @ABCPolitics post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.5 posts per day across the measured window.