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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.007% |
| 50th percentile | 0.048% |
| 75th percentile | 0.328% |
| 90th percentile | 2.48% |
| 99th percentile | 343.7% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | 0% | 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 UTC | 0% | 24K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 22K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 17K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +8% | 59K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 94K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 78K |
| Thursday | -3% | 71K |
| Friday | -5% | 73K |
| Saturday | +2% | 64K |
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 | 100% of posts | +79% | +73% to +85% | 5.8K |
| Outbound link | 0% 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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.