Anderson Cooper 360° engagement report
@AC360 - 1.5M followers on X
Measured over 67 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 284 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.019%. Measured over 67 original posts, its engagement rate beats 45% of 15,519 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 30K times each, and 0.942% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.05% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 67 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 80x its own typical post.
Measured over 67 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Anderson Cooper 360°'s engagement rate beats 45% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 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 0.019%, Anderson Cooper 360° sits above the 10th percentile of the 156,839 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.003% |
| 25th percentile | 0.022% |
| 50th percentile | 0.128% |
| 75th percentile | 0.604% |
| 90th percentile | 2.32% |
| 99th percentile | 83.4% |
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 01:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 1% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% 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.
- 1% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 238 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
- Sep 10, 202680x their median
Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon says the AI industry is "gambling with our lives." He tells Anderson what he finds "most scary is if AI is used to make itself more intelligent" and warns these companies are "compelled to race toward building a deadly technology." https://t.co/UFrLWVm0xD
- Sep 1, 202624x their median
Priya Adhikari is Nepal's first female helicopter captain and she's flown over 100 rescue missions in the wake of the devastating flood. Anderson speaks with her about what she's witnessed. https://t.co/3YYXHZA60J
- Sep 22, 202620x their median
Major TV networks stand with CNN and pull the plug on covering President Trump after his ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico. https://t.co/BZO4UMg10c
- Aug 13, 202619x 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, 202615x 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
- Sep 30, 20269.3x their median
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt's trap for Jack Smith backfired after getting a theory about a basketball game wrong. Schmitt then clashed with Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who says her point was "don't call someone a dirtbag when you don't have your own facts right." https://t.co/hpAGQZKaea
- Sep 17, 20268.6x their median
The latest on the battle over The Kennedy Center, from Democratic Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty. She's the lone board member of the performing arts venue fighting the Trump administration in court. https://t.co/gGxLcAqvcH
- Oct 2, 20267.9x their median
Daniel Schlichter was in the second row of Flydubai flight 1073 when he says a woman screamed "somebody's stabbing the pilot." That's when he heard a violent altercation happening in the cockpit and it was clear something was very wrong. https://t.co/6a7yKgsoLN
- Sep 1, 20267.2x their median
Captain Priya Adhikari, Nepal’s first female helicopter captain, has flown nearly 100 missions in just days - navigating treacherous valleys and unstable ground, to bring survivors to safety and dignity to the dead. https://t.co/g6NKakj2r0
- Aug 31, 20267.2x their median
Anderson reports from Syabru Besi, one of the first towns hit by the deadly flood in Nepal which was once a bustling market district. https://t.co/Tq4ZvnT96B
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 284 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.019%. Measured over 67 original posts, its engagement rate beats 45% of 15,519 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 30K times each, and 0.942% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.05% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 67 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 80x its own typical post.
- What is Anderson Cooper 360°'s engagement rate on X?
- Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) has an engagement rate of 0.019%, based on the median interactions across 67 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,467,444 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.019%, Anderson Cooper 360° sits above the 10th percentile of the 156,839 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 45% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.23 posts per day across the measured window.