Ashton Forbes engagement report
@AshtonForbes - 316K followers on X
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 4, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 439 interactions against 316K followers, an engagement rate of 0.139%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 6,874 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 15K times each, and 2.93% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.75% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 55% carry an image or video, 15% are part of a thread and 24% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 33K interactions, about 76x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mh370x, #charliekirk, #lulu.
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 4, 2026. Recurring tags: #mh370x, #charliekirk, #lulu.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ashton Forbes's engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 76% 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 0.139%, Ashton Forbes sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,536 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.1% to 0.5%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.5% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.7% |
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 02:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 | 55% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 24% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 55% 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.
- 24% 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 292 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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 31, 202676x their median
Doja Cat praises MoistCr1TiKaL for being smart & reveals he’s the only streamer she watches. She says she doesn’t want to become friends with him IRL because it would make watching him feel weird after her chat suggested they link up “I’m just gonna keep watching his videos every single day instead of being like.. oh I know that guy so it feels weird to watch him while I go to sleep. He literally talks me to sleep…..”
- Sep 4, 202670x their median
🚨 BREAKING: It appears there is ONE LONE JUROR who is BLOCKING a NOT GUILTY verdict for Lindsay Clancy What a LEGEND This man is SINGLE HANDEDLY preventing Lindsay from getting away with MURDERING three children. https://t.co/kwqWUqq2je
- Sep 3, 202640x their median
🚨 Lindsay Clancy's defense attorney is PIPING angry, and seems to believe there is a SOLE JUROR BLOCKING Lindsay Clancy from getting off on the murder charge If that's true, this legendary juror must HOLD THE LINE. JUSTICE for those three kids! 🙏🏻 https://t.co/Kl8WhH16yH
- Sep 1, 202622x their median
I’ve never posted on X. Last year I was at Department of Energy with an unusual view into what’s happening across AI, energy, and infrastructure. The old systems can’t handle what’s coming. There’s just an insane amount we need to build in the physical world, and the opportunity and urgency are greater than ever. Every able person should be contributing to the effort, and I’ve gotten back into the arena to do my part. More to come soon.
- Sep 3, 20265.5x their median
A former Australian official tells Faytuks Network that US officials identified the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in military satellite imagery taken on the day of its disappearance, and that the findings, made during a review three years later, were never made public.
- Aug 30, 20265.4x their median
🚨BREAKING: Live chat goes WILD as Andrew Wilson releases never before heard conversation with the owner of Cowboy Smokehouse, unequivocally refuting the Candace Owens timeline. Go to The Crucible YouTube channel for the full recording. @paleochristcon #CharlieKirk https://t.co/BNPhnh68sq
- Aug 26, 20265.1x their median
Iran Says It Has Achieved Nuclear FUSION Knowledge for Sustainable Energy Atomic Energy Organization chief Mohammad Eslami said researchers have moved beyond proving the technology and into testing and simulation capability, which officials say could ACCELERATE the path toward practical nuclear fusion energy. Iran also UNVEILED domestically built technology capable of detecting tiny internal cracks and defects in critical industrial equipment. - Three smart systems developed by Iranian knowledge-based companies and research institutes - Designed for nuclear, oil, gas and petrochemical industries - Officials say the technology can COMPETE with foreign alternatives and is ready for EXPORT Iran says its nuclear industry is building equipment it's ready to export, despite sanctions.
- Sep 2, 20264.4x their median
Maxwell's equations have been the most beautiful aspect of electromagnetism. Imagine doing the math and finding out the velocity of electromagnetic waves equals exactly the speed of light! Studying physics makes me even more optimistic about what humans can discover and achieve https://t.co/UlrR7Y9P6C
- Sep 1, 20264.3x their median
Unwrapped version of the MH370 abduction video, filmed by the NROL-22 spy satellite on March 8, 2014. https://t.co/oISDrTDXp6
- Aug 29, 20263.5x their median
The Air Force's stable plasma toroid research paid off. https://t.co/4CA9NpyrWl
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 439 interactions against 316K followers, an engagement rate of 0.139%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 6,874 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 15K times each, and 2.93% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.75% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 55% carry an image or video, 15% are part of a thread and 24% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 33K interactions, about 76x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mh370x, #charliekirk, #lulu.
- What is Ashton Forbes's engagement rate on X?
- Ashton Forbes (@AshtonForbes) has an engagement rate of 0.139%, based on the median interactions across 33 original posts from the last 30 days against 315,708 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.139%, Ashton Forbes sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,536 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 @AshtonForbes have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @AshtonForbes post?
- Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.6 posts per day across the measured window.