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Bernie Sanders engagement report

@BernieSanders - 15M followers on X

Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.068%
of 15M followers
Per impression
2.24%
455K views on a typical post
Reach
3.04%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
10K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.028%
129 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.03/day
active 100% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 10K interactions against 15M followers, an engagement rate of 0.068%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 79% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 455K times each, and 2.24% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.04% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 42% carry an image or video and 6% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 115K interactions, about 11x its own typical post.

Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Bernie Sanders's engagement rate beats 79% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 79% 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 0.068%, Bernie Sanders sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 16:00 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.

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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%94K
14:00 UTC-4%97K
15:00 UTC-2%100K
16:00 UTC-3%97K
17:00 UTC-2%90K
18:00 UTC-1%84K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 31, 202611x their median

    Elon Musk spent $290 million to elect Trump. His investment worked. He is now $438 billion richer. Now, he wants to buy Congress by spending $100 million to keep Republicans in control. We must fight oligarchy. Defeat Musk. Preserve democracy.

    78K17K19K1.1K2.2M viewsView on X
  • Jul 26, 202611x their median

    Elon Musk Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2026: $719 billion Jeff Bezos Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2026: $255 billion Mark Zuckerberg Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2026: $212 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Obscene. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

    70K14K28K1.7K7.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20269.5x their median

    Elon Musk spent $290M to elect Trump. Now he wants to spend up to $200M to buy a Senate seat in Texas and keep Republicans in control of Congress. That’s not democracy. That’s oligarchy. End Citizens United. Ban super PACs. Get billionaires—from both parties—out of elections.

    68K15K14K7922.4M viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20267.9x their median

    AIPAC spent $30 million trying to defeat Abdul El-Sayed in the primary. They lost. Now, they plan to spend tens of millions more against him in the general election. This is not democracy. This is oligarchy and a corrupt billionaire-funded campaign finance system. Fight back.

    64K12K4.2K3741.0M viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20265.3x their median

    If voters in California approve the 5% billionaire wealth tax in November, Mark Zuckerberg would owe $10.5 billion in taxes & healthcare would be saved for 3 million low-income people. Poor Mr. Zuckerberg would only have $200 billion left to feed his family. How will he survive?

    33K4.7K15K1.0K2.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20263.8x their median

    What do Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed, Peggy Flanagan and Angie Nixon have in common? They all ran strong progressive grassroots campaigns.  They were all heavily outspent. THEY ALL WON. The establishment has the money. We have the people. When we stand together, we win.

    30K4.7K4.3K269578K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20263.5x their median

    Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired. He said The View should be "pulled off air." His FCC threatened ABC broadcast licenses. Now ABC is suing to defend the 1st Amendment rights Americans fought and died to defend. Sorry, Mr. Trump: we're not living in a dictatorship.

    28K4.7K3.1K170550K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20263.5x their median

    The city of Tempe, AZ, is turning off all of its Flock cameras and ending its contract with this AI surveillance company backed by Big Tech oligarchs like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel. Good. The American people do not want to be tracked and recorded by AI.

    31K3.9K807175702K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20263.4x their median

    The number of Amazon workers relying on food stamps and Medicaid nearly TRIPLED between 2020 and 2025. Jeff Bezos is worth $257 billion and has a $500 million yacht. He can afford to pay his workers a living wage.

    24K5.1K4.4K288768K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 20263.3x their median

    Congratulations to Will Lawrence, Donavan McKinney and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on their historic victories last night. Abdul took on the entire billionaire class, faced more than $60 million in spending against him, and WON. Now let's beat Mike Rogers and take back the Senate. https://t.co/4duaAmJ8OK

    26K5.0K2.1K190480K 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 10K interactions against 15M followers, an engagement rate of 0.068%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 79% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 455K times each, and 2.24% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.04% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 42% carry an image or video and 6% are part of a thread. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 115K interactions, about 11x its own typical post.

What is Bernie Sanders's engagement rate on X?
Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) has an engagement rate of 0.068%, based on the median interactions across 52 original posts from the last 30 days against 14,975,851 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.068%, Bernie Sanders sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @BernieSanders have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 79% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter 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 @BernieSanders post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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