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Anderson Cooper 360° engagement report

@AC360 - 1.5M followers on X

Measured over 63 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.026%
of 1.5M followers
Per impression
0.866%
45K views on a typical post
Reach
3.05%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
386
interactions (median)
Saved
0.029%
13 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.1/day
active 70% of days
Peak time
01:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 386 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.026%. Measured over 63 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 1,003 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 45K times each, and 0.866% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.05% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 63 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.5K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.

Measured over 63 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 23, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Anderson Cooper 360°'s engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 48% 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 0.026%, Anderson Cooper 360° sits above the 25th percentile of the 10,660 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.007% to 0.048%.

p100.001%
p250.007%
p50 (median)0.048%
p750.328%
p902.48%
p99343.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 10,660 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 429,653 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 percentile0.001%
25th percentile0.007%
50th percentile0.048%
75th percentile0.328%
90th percentile2.48%
99th percentile343.7%

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 01:00 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.

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: 01:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 96%Busiest hour: 01:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC0%15K
01:00 UTC+4%15K
02:00 UTC-1%14K
03:00 UTC-2%15K
04:00 UTC-5%12K
05:00 UTC-5%12K
06:00 UTC-7%13K
07:00 UTC-6%14K
08:00 UTC-7%17K
09:00 UTC-2%19K
10:00 UTC-2%20K
11:00 UTC-2%22K
12:00 UTC-1%24K
13:00 UTC+1%27K
14:00 UTC-2%29K
15:00 UTC-1%30K
16:00 UTC-1%30K
17:00 UTC-1%28K
18:00 UTC+1%25K
19:00 UTC0%24K
20:00 UTC0%22K
21:00 UTC+1%19K
22:00 UTC+1%17K
23:00 UTC+1%15K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 96%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+8%59K
Monday+8%72K
Tuesday+1%94K
Wednesday-4%78K
Thursday-3%71K
Friday-5%73K
Saturday+2%64K
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 video100% of posts+79%+73% to +85%5.8K
Outbound link0% of posts-49%-50% to -47%6.1K
Typical length--5%-7% to -4%7.9K
  • 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 245 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters run 5% 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

  • Aug 13, 202614x their median

    Texans from both political parties are decrying the Trump Administration's construction of a border security project in Big Bend National Park. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports. https://t.co/6gMqSJ5CUI

    3.9K1.3K1425286K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 202611x their median

    New York Times investigative reporter David Fahrenthold says they've connected the dots between the failed reflecting pool restoration, a manager at one of President Trump's golf courses and no-bid government contracts. https://t.co/EVYWGyhr5g

    3.2K1.1K5133105K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 20264.7x their median

    President Trump backed a primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn. Now Cornyn could derail Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General. "It's amazing what being primaried will do. It makes you do your job," says CNN Political Commentator S.E. Cupp. https://t.co/0KQRxBUUkU

    1.6K24315455K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20264.5x their median

    Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, launched an investigation into early access to the president's Truth Social posts. “They’re turning the White House into one large insider trading conspiracy,” says Raskin. https://t.co/ZQf8vMeZ7C

    1.4K31122450K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20263.4x their median

    DHS spent $464 million on a no-bid contract for a fleet of airliners for deportation flights. But the planes have largely sat idle. David Fahrenthold of the New York Times explains https://t.co/s14JKI9Qzw

    94331656950K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20263.2x their median

    President Trump declined to rule out declaring a national security emergency for elections. "Democracies are ultimately destroyed" by undermining people's faith their voice counts, says former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger. https://t.co/9TSy2u3ODL

    1.0K21721447K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20262.7x their median

    The president's handpicked board for the Kennedy Center has voted to put his name back on the building with an inscription that would read “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump." "Scar is really busy remaking Pride Rock," says CNN Contributor Kara Swisher. https://t.co/CoLAZcYZQN

    842167331058K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20262.6x their median

    Keeping Them Honest, the claims the president is making about his new executive order on childhood vaccines. https://t.co/C6xplLH1JI

    767156681739K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20262.4x their median

    The Justice Department withdraws subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters. Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig says the hearing went "quite poorly" for the DOJ and that they "had to back off." https://t.co/MouIpw8EX6

    78013212647K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20262.3x their median

    New details have surfaced about an alleged incident where classmates say future Rep. Max Miller pushed a girl down some stairs during a party in 2006. The girl was "traumatized, crying, and just trying to figure out what had happened," says Miller classmate River McWilliams. https://t.co/D1p7sDs7Ln

    70514328148K 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 386 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.026%. Measured over 63 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 1,003 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 45K times each, and 0.866% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.05% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 63 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.5K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.

What is Anderson Cooper 360°'s engagement rate on X?
Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) has an engagement rate of 0.026%, based on the median interactions across 63 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,463,451 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.026%, Anderson Cooper 360° sits above the 25th percentile of the 10,660 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 @AC360 have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (1,003 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @AC360 post?
Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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