Byron York engagement report
@ByronYork - 582K followers on X
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 166 interactions against 582K followers, an engagement rate of 0.029%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 48% of 4,327 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 19K times each, and 0.893% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.20% 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 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 29% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 84% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.1K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.
Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Byron York's engagement rate beats 48% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,327 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 49% 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 0.029%, Byron York sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,976 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.013% to 0.083%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.083% |
| 75th percentile | 0.448% |
| 90th percentile | 2.08% |
| 99th percentile | 142.9% |
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 01:00 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% | 59K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 58K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 50K |
| 05:00 UTC | -5% | 49K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 56K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 60K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 70K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 81K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 83K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 91K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 109K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 113K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 116K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 113K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 105K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 87K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 66K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 60K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 256K |
| Monday | +1% | 328K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 354K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 320K |
| Thursday | -2% | 271K |
| Friday | -3% | 276K |
| Saturday | +3% | 250K |
Best tweets
- Aug 21, 202631x their median
Anti-Trump figures George Conway and Alexander Vindman apparently thought their status as stars of Resistance 1.0 meant that voters--Democratic voters--would support them for political office. Wrong. https://t.co/fNCfLFjNAk
- Aug 19, 20268.6x their median
Looks like they've gotten all the money they can out of Netflix... https://t.co/pRHIssUqH5
- Aug 21, 20268.1x their median
Democratic voters reject Resistance stars. Conway, Vindman faceplanting with voters made clear that Resistance 1.0 magic did not work. In both Manhattan and Florida, Democratic voters just didn't care that a candidate had led one of the many unsuccessful efforts to drive Trump out of office from 2017 to 2021. That doesn't mean they like or support Trump; they absolutely don't. But it does mean that all the excitement that George Conway and Alexander Vindman and their allies stirred up in the wayback time of Trump I truly came to nothing. https://t.co/sYgHes71fV
- Aug 15, 20267.6x their median
A straight telling of the story makes Cambridge look really, really bad. https://t.co/zrbLAlELPH
- Aug 14, 20267.4x their median
The story Trump was touting this morning. A pretty good thing to be able to say as midterm campaigning accelerates. https://t.co/2W1w0NZRmE https://t.co/E6XkNvCDVR
- Aug 19, 20265.6x their median
Trump is asking voters for time and patience on Iran. His pitch: The American economy was going gangbusters earlier this year when he reluctantly decided the US had to take a "journey" to Iran. Now asks voters to remember, when they "pay a tiny little bit more for your gasoline," that the purpose is to stop an evil regime from acquiring nuclear weapons. Still: "I'll never apologize. I did the right thing, but you could -- you know if you didn't have [the war] you'd be at, I mean, I had it down to below $2 in many states." https://t.co/j2WFX4Dzjc
- Aug 19, 20265.0x their median
"The loser here [Vindman] spent $2.2 million and the winner [Nixon] spent just $60,000, with zero spent on broadcast or cable." https://t.co/hMV1YevFX5 https://t.co/jNqHtwawfQ
- Aug 19, 20264.6x their median
In Alaska, the fake, dirty-trick Dan Sullivan finished in third place and made it to the general election. https://t.co/4VIU0kgYqV https://t.co/WH4pVYZVeF
- Aug 17, 20263.0x their median
What's worrying Democrats about Abdul el Sayed? Lots of things, but the biggest is that he could manage to alienate Democratic voters who can't stand Trump. He's creating double haters right and left. https://t.co/imMZKXR8Gh
- Aug 24, 20262.7x their median
August 24, 2023, courtesy of the Fulton County Sheriff's Office. https://t.co/p7Jq69VuM1
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 166 interactions against 582K followers, an engagement rate of 0.029%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 48% of 4,327 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 19K times each, and 0.893% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.20% 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 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 29% carry an image or video, 5% are part of a thread and 84% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.1K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.
- What is Byron York's engagement rate on X?
- Byron York (@ByronYork) has an engagement rate of 0.029%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 581,765 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.029%, Byron York sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,976 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 @ByronYork have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 48% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,327 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 @ByronYork post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.