Brennan Center engagement report
@BrennanCenter - 146K followers on X
Measured over 55 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 10 interactions against 146K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 55 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 19,933 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 884 times each, and 1.13% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.604% 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, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 55 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 99 interactions, about 9.9x its own typical post.
Measured over 55 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Brennan Center's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 45% 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 0.007%, Brennan Center sits above the 10th percentile of the 200,465 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 | 0.141% |
| 75th percentile | 0.67% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 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 14:00 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 | 13% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 95% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 13% 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.
- 95% 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 228 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 21, 20269.9x their median
The Trump administration’s proposed change for the census conflicts with the plain language of the Constitution, applicable federal law, and centuries practice. And it would inflict immeasurable harm on the American public. https://t.co/gYb3JYPgSi
- Sep 25, 20265.8x their median
Here’s what to know about voting in the midterms: ✅You can vote by mail. ✅You don’t need to bring a passport or birth certificate to vote. ✅It is illegal for ICE or federal troops to be at the polls. Make a plan to vote, and vote early if you can. https://t.co/PR1NH6akBS https://t.co/PEbFH0fjzc
- Sep 25, 20265.0x their median
After cutting FEMA staff, disrupting billions in preparedness grants, and delaying disaster aid, the administration has left communities more vulnerable when they need federal help most. https://t.co/wQg65fqcDW
- Sep 23, 20264.6x their median
Victory: a federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Washington voters’ private data. It’s one of 30 lawsuits the DOJ filed against states over their voter rolls. Federal courts have rejected 25 of them and haven’t ruled on the remaining 5. 1/3 https://t.co/aol6PjwPO7
- Sep 23, 20264.2x their median
Why is so much untraceable dark money flooding elections? Because the Supreme Court demolished campaign finance laws. https://t.co/nAvFaTLQh6
- Sep 22, 20264.2x their median
The Trump administration’s proposed census changes will undoubtedly face legal challenges, with narrow prospects of surviving them. The Constitution, federal law, and centuries of history make clear that the census is meant to count everyone, regardless of citizenship. https://t.co/kzAfQ0DEEe
- Sep 22, 20263.9x their median
The Supreme Court has delivered yet another defeat for the Trump administration’s illegal efforts to take over the election process and undermine public confidence in our democratic system. https://t.co/YAQb2XyYjt
- Sep 22, 20263.1x their median
Billions in dark money are flooding the election — and voters don’t know who’s behind it. https://t.co/nAvFaTLQh6
- Sep 25, 20262.5x their median
The taxpayer-funded pro-Trump ad "is an astonishing misuse of public resources in the campaign context," @DanWeiner329 told @WSJ. https://t.co/9xKnQzQCl8
- Sep 24, 20262.0x their median
Year after year, politicians decry corruption but fail to pass stronger campaign finance laws. The next Congress must make reform a central goal. Read: https://t.co/nAvFaTLQh6 https://t.co/LJxQquDU3U
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 10 interactions against 146K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 55 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 19,933 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 884 times each, and 1.13% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.604% 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, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 55 posts sampled, 13% carry an image or video and 95% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 99 interactions, about 9.9x its own typical post.
- What is Brennan Center's engagement rate on X?
- Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 55 original posts from the last 30 days against 146,394 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, Brennan Center sits above the 10th percentile of the 200,465 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 @BrennanCenter have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,933 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @BrennanCenter post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.