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Brandon Sanderson engagement report

@BrandSanderson - 361K followers on X

Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.039%
of 361K followers
Per impression
0.698%
20K views on a typical post
Reach
5.63%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
142
interactions (median)
Saved
0.015%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.23/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Tuesday

Early reading. We have captured 6 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 142 interactions against 361K followers, an engagement rate of 0.039%. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 0.698% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.63% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.23 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 33% carry an image or video and 83% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 34K interactions, about 236x its own typical post. Only 6 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026. Recurring tag: #mtgfracture.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.039%, Brandon Sanderson sits above the 25th percentile of the 200,870 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.141%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.141%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 200,870 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,897 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.141%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.4%

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 17:00 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.

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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video33% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link83% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 33% 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.
  • 83% 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 287 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

  • Jul 28, 2026236x their median

    After many months of work, I'm thrilled to announce the first draft of the Mistborn screenplay is DONE! Just in time to celebrate the book's original publication, twenty years ago this month. Do please remember that this is just an early step in a very long process, but I'm terribly excited by how it turned out!

    30K2.5K3847301.9M viewsView on X
  • Jun 25, 202623x their median

    Cosmere readers…the cover has finally arrived. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson—creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy—comes #TheFiresofDecember, a new standalone novel set in his Cosmere universe! Coming December, 08, 2026! Cover art by @my_name_is_tran Preorder today: https://t.co/mA659BLXS8

    2.9K2174963272K viewsView on X
  • May 20, 202614x their median

    I’ve been working on the Skyward series for nearly a decade, and to have a partner like Tomorrow Studios to help bring this story to television is a dream come true. https://t.co/vAWuWZSSc2

    1.6K1734588141K viewsView on X
  • Mar 11, 202612x their median

    Seen in Beverly Hills fashion window: Mistcoats are apparently in style right now. Wonder what kind of Misting she is. https://t.co/QTSiHLi1dM

    1.4K6122441K viewsView on X
  • Sep 11, 20266.5x their median

    Magic: The Gathering sent me another pair of spoiler cards! Reality Fracture is only a few weeks away, and we're checking in on Gallia, AKA armpit satyr, before Jace breaks the multiverse. @wizards_magic #MTGFracture https://t.co/hWlpcv3TDW

    86041171177K viewsView on X
  • Jun 25, 20264.5x their median

    What questions should I ask Robin Hobb and Ryan Cahill tonight?

    578561067K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20263.8x their median

    Brandon is back with another Weekly Update! He hits a major milestone on the Mistborn screenplay before sharing a few other exciting things: the Dragonsteel Team is headed to Gen Con, and Brandon shouts out a spoiler he received for Magic: The Gathering’s The Hobbit. https://t.co/9eKAB3iYCi

    516205059K viewsView on X
  • Apr 14, 20262.9x their median

    Brandon is back with another Weekly Update! Progress on the Mistborn screenplay continues and Brandon outlines his travel schedule, with upcoming visits to Atlanta for JordanCon this week and a visit to the UK in May. He’ll be meeting up with John Scalzi in Atlanta and @LordGrimdark in London. https://t.co/rPm8HesDJr

    39864151K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.1x their median

    Brandon is back with the Weekly Update! (Wasn't he wearing those clothes last week?) His new trilogy, co-authored with Janci Patterson, starts with Blightfall, coming September 1st. Pre-order your copy now! https://t.co/s06hYlKDj6

    28384143K viewsView on X
  • Apr 7, 20262.0x their median

    Brandon is back with the Weekly Update! The Mistborn screenplay is still his focus, and is coming along nicely. He’s rereading Red Rising this week, and he has plenty of other suggestions as you spring into reading this spring break. Children of the Nameless, Brandon’s Magic the Gathering short story, is available in print from Subterranean Press. https://t.co/zcUoXXiHyw

    265413051K 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.

Recurring topics

#mtgfracture

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 142 interactions against 361K followers, an engagement rate of 0.039%. Posts are seen about 20K times each, and 0.698% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.63% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.23 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 6 posts sampled, 33% carry an image or video and 83% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 34K interactions, about 236x its own typical post. Only 6 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Brandon Sanderson's engagement rate on X?
Brandon Sanderson (@BrandSanderson) has an engagement rate of 0.039%, based on the median interactions across 6 original posts from the last 30 days against 361,183 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.039%, Brandon Sanderson sits above the 25th percentile of the 200,870 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 @BrandSanderson have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @BrandSanderson post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.23 posts per day across the measured window.

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