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Governor Gavin Newsom engagement report

@CAgovernor - 898K followers on X

Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.115%
of 898K followers
Per impression
3.25%
32K views on a typical post
Reach
3.55%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.0K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.041%
13 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.7/day
active 93% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 1.0K interactions against 898K followers, an engagement rate of 0.115%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 73% of 20,444 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 32K times each, and 3.25% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.54% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 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 59 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 85K interactions, about 82x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #climateweeknyc, #hawkfire, #sb1050.

Measured over 59 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 22, 2026. Recurring tags: #climateweeknyc, #hawkfire, #sb1050.

Compared with accounts its own size

Governor Gavin Newsom's engagement rate beats 73% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 80% 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 0.115%, Governor Gavin Newsom sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,152 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,152 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
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 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 111%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%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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 video64% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link17% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 64% 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.
  • 17% 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 278 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

  • Jul 6, 202682x their median

    To anyone considering helping President Trump interfere with our election or our count: You will be prosecuted. That’s why I’m moving forward with new legislation that would make it a FELONY to seize ballots before the vote has been certified by state and county officials. https://t.co/5lNEJx3zUI

    45K10.0K27K1.8K5.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 202612x their median

    China is not screwing around. The United States has become a footnote. Supply chains, manufacturing, influence — China is flooding the zone all across the globe. As California doubles down on our low carbon green growth efforts, the Trump admin is doubling down on stupid. https://t.co/4rFH3lHSAt

    9.6K2.1K92058134K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202611x their median

    Dolly Parton was larger than life. She was a phenomenal talent, a prolific singer-songwriter, and even after becoming the best-selling female country music artist of all time, she never forgot where she came from. She cared deeply about early literacy and spreading a love of reading to millions of children around the world — including tens of thousands right here in California. The world will be less sparkly without Dolly, but the joy she brought us and the stories she shared will shine on for generations.

    9.8K1.0K1551961K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20269.5x their median

    Trump's last-minute gerrymandering and illegal schemes to throw out mail-in ballots are pathetic. This is weakness from a failed president masquerading as strength. California is taking real action to make sure everyone can exercise their right to vote this November.

    6.8K1.3K1.7K7389K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 20267.8x their median

    Donald Trump's idea to buy your vote with $5,000 checks is another pathetic scheme from a pathetic man. If Republicans really want to put money in Americans' pockets, they can pay us back for the $108B+ in extra fuel costs caused by their failed war with Iran.

    5.7K7991.5K55100K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20265.6x their median

    Our hearts are with the victims and families of tonight’s devastating Metro bus and helicopter crashes in Chatsworth, and with the entire NBC4 family. Thank you to the first responders working tirelessly tonight.

    5.3K390908106K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 20264.4x their median

    I'm declaring a state of emergency to mobilize state resources for a potentially historic El Niño winter in California. With higher risks of heavy rain, flooding, and mudslides over the next several months, we're launching a whole-of-government effort to protect Californians. https://t.co/nOcdVn8dwx

    3.2K65565079198K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20264.0x their median

    Everyone knew Trump’s Iran war would disrupt the Strait of Hormuz and skyrocket costs. So why did Energy @SecretaryWright do NOTHING to protect us? Americans are OWED answers about what the Trump Admin knew and why they failed to shield us from these predictable consequences.

    2.9K61465335104K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20262.9x their median

    California is creating jobs 3x faster than America as a whole and contributing nearly 1 in 6 jobs added nationwide this year. Fox News and the right-wing trolls are rooting for California to fail, but we keep DOMINATING. We have no peers.

    1.8K3358193970K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20262.7x their median

    21,000 megawatts of battery storage. It was 770 when @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom started his term. California made a commitment to lead in this space. Now we’re the second largest utility scale battery storage in the world. China, then California. The state hasn’t had a Flex Alert in four years. That’s what battery storage has done.

    2.2K478153946K 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

#climateweeknyc#hawkfire#sb1050#thepitt

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 1.0K interactions against 898K followers, an engagement rate of 0.115%. Measured over 59 original posts, its engagement rate beats 73% of 20,444 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 32K times each, and 3.25% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.54% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.7 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 59 posts sampled, 64% carry an image or video and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 85K interactions, about 82x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #climateweeknyc, #hawkfire, #sb1050.

What is Governor Gavin Newsom's engagement rate on X?
Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) has an engagement rate of 0.115%, based on the median interactions across 59 original posts from the last 30 days against 898,472 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.115%, Governor Gavin Newsom sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,152 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 @CAgovernor have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 73% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @CAgovernor post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.7 posts per day across the measured window.

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