Accounting Today engagement report
@AccountingToday - 174K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1 interaction against 174K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 20,183 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 942 times each, and 0.106% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.542% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 158 interactions, about 158x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tax, #accounting, #irs.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 19, 2026. Recurring tags: #tax, #accounting, #irs.
Compared with accounts its own size
Accounting Today's engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 6% 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 0.001%, Accounting Today sits below the 10th percentile of the 203,096 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 | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.674% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 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 15:00 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 | 0% 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 |
- 0% 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 251 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
- Nov 18, 2022158x their median
Don't miss any of our coverage. Follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook: https://t.co/WlPSVf4qSh https://t.co/k6NVoNWUGj
- Sep 15, 202613x their median
A pair of congressmen have introduced legislation to help prevent the submission of fraudulent tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service before they’re filed by requiring tax software to verify that Electronic Filing Identification Numbers are active and authorized before e-file functionality is enabled. https://t.co/LUFasjWz0e #tax #IRS
- Sep 14, 202611x their median
A clear divide is emerging between accounting firms that are transforming their business models around AI and those that are more focused on using it to optimize efficiency in existing workflows. https://t.co/jBIC2BDzxY #AI #accounting
- Sep 15, 202610x their median
The largest private foundations are just barely exceeding the 5% statutory threshold for charitable donations, according to a new report. https://t.co/h0iL8lkCkA #charity #foundations
- Sep 14, 20269.0x their median
Nearly one in seven bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks in America is age 65 or more, according to a new study, and in some metropolitan areas it's nearly one in four. https://t.co/juOmoAqHVT #accounting #auditing #bookkeeping #retirement
- Oct 15, 20268.0x their median
A comfortable majority of accountants agree that artificial intelligence represents the foremost ethical challenge to the profession today, according to a survey by the ACCA @ACCANews. https://t.co/7CDF93Ny9D #accounting #AI #ethics
- Sep 15, 20268.0x their median
The IRS issued guidance offering an extension of tax relief for farmers and ranchers in 49 states and other regions who sold or exchanged livestock because of drought conditions. https://t.co/usVUFA5Zah #tax #IRS #drought
- Sep 14, 20268.0x their median
One way firms can satisfy clients’ diverse needs while increasing sales through a new revenue stream is by integrating their existing client management system with an API solution that lets them provide essential business filing services to clients in all states, writes Nellie Akalp @CorpNetNellie of @CorpNet. https://t.co/eQiYnrqVWz #accounting #API
- Sep 16, 20267.0x their median
If your clients carried federal tax debts through the pandemic, the interest deserves a second look, writes Mark Friedlich @mfriedlich. A pending Tax Court case asks whether Congress required the IRS to disregard Jan. 20, 2020, through July 10, 2023, when computing interest on affected liabilities. https://t.co/oPUr5cc0Af #tax #IRS
- Oct 14, 20266.0x their median
The @AICPA has released a new practice guide to help auditors understand how current audit standards do and do not apply to the use of AI, both in terms of entities that used it to draft their financial statements as well as practitioners using the technology during the audit itself. https://t.co/gWduyqjIss #AI #audit
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
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 1 interaction against 174K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 4% of 20,183 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 942 times each, and 0.106% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.542% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 158 interactions, about 158x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #tax, #accounting, #irs.
- What is Accounting Today's engagement rate on X?
- Accounting Today (@AccountingToday) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 173,946 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Accounting Today sits below the 10th percentile of the 203,096 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 @AccountingToday have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 4% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @AccountingToday post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.