CNN Politics engagement report
@CNNPolitics - 4.6M followers on X
Measured over 113 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 91 interactions against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 113 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,774 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 25K times each, and 0.36% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.551% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 113 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.
Measured over 113 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
CNN Politics's engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 31% 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 0.002%, CNN Politics sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 00:00 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% | 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 202631x their median
A federal appeals court has ruled that states can regulate prediction markets like gambling, dealing a major blow to the booming industry. https://t.co/lhQn8drkX8
- Aug 22, 202625x their median
Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she flooded her Twitter feed with posts demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021. A CNN review of Harp's now-removed account on X, previously Twitter, found that Harp posted more than 150 tweets that day. https://t.co/UuseHaIAVI
- Aug 19, 20268.2x their median
Interim GOP Sen. Darline Graham declined to answer a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea during a debate Tuesday night, saying national security is “not my thing.” https://t.co/K2RUr5s03u https://t.co/lgC7eauDvv
- Aug 22, 20266.9x their median
The Trump administration's ban on visas for immigrants from 75 countries was struck down by a federal judge, who ruled it was "contrary to law" and outside the statutory authority of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. https://t.co/rRf5Hsb57Y https://t.co/N8FCTzZiqK
- Aug 19, 20265.4x their median
Jason Watson, the US service member who was arrested on the steps of the US Capitol last month after calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, has been detained once again — just days after he criticized the president in an exclusive CNN interview. https://t.co/FNsBcAEzm5
- Aug 20, 20265.2x their median
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Donald Trump, sources say. The Navy is looking instead to rename another warship after Doris Miller, according to one of the sources, and is recommending him for the Medal of Honor, the highest decoration for military valor. https://t.co/AdmEwMJyYd
- Aug 19, 20265.0x their median
The United States is digging itself into an ever-deeper debt hole. The federal debt hit a record $40 trillion on Tuesday, according to the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department's data on the federal debt is released on a one-day delay. https://t.co/qq1ce52Jpi https://t.co/aJWGsiRERq
- Aug 30, 20264.2x their median
A plan being considered by the Trump administration to allow a developer to use a portion of Yosemite National Park land is facing strong opposition from elected officials and conservationists, reflecting broader concerns about privatizing some of the country's most cherished landmarks. https://t.co/QvLp6oiQiE
- Aug 19, 20263.3x their median
The number of US service members wounded since the start of the war with Iran has passed 750, according to the Defense Department's war casualty database. https://t.co/15gU0YKWCF https://t.co/Wi02dNcSFu
- Aug 19, 20263.2x their median
A woman has told the House Ethics Committee that Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez sexually harassed and assaulted her, her attorneys said in a statement. https://t.co/9xzzDdWONj https://t.co/exgLSsRI1Y
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 91 interactions against 4.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 113 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,774 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 25K times each, and 0.36% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.551% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 113 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 31x its own typical post.
- What is CNN Politics's engagement rate on X?
- CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 113 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,595,533 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, CNN Politics sits above the 10th 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 @CNNPolitics have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @CNNPolitics post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.77 posts per day across the measured window.