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CNN Weather engagement report

@CNNweather - 1.8M followers on X

Measured over 72 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 1.8M followers
Per impression
0.258%
3.1K views on a typical post
Reach
0.18%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
8
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.4/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 72 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,791 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 3.1K times each, and 0.258% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.177% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 72 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 140 interactions, about 18x its own typical post.

Measured over 72 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

CNN Weather's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 24% 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 0.001%, CNN Weather sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 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.

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 6%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%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
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%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
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%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 26, 202618x their median

    Hundreds of homes in the village of Pomas were damaged and dozens of people injured when an unusually destructive tornado tore through the Aude region of southwestern France on Monday, officials said. https://t.co/EUL40iUSGh

    95339360K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20269.1x their median

    Many Californians who experienced the February 1998 event still consider it to be the benchmark for how a Super El Niño can alter life in their state. Now, with another Super El Niño setting in – this time likely to be the strongest on record – many are calibrating their expectations based on what happened then. https://t.co/1QbYku6Odg

    54127056K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20264.8x their median

    Deadly flash flooding hit Grand Canyon National Park over the weekend, leaving at least one person dead and more than a dozen unaccounted for. More rain is possible in the park in Arizona on Monday. https://t.co/CaTjUgAVLA

    2772239K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20263.4x their median

    Every Friday, CNN Meteorologist @weatherdak looks at the most interesting things weather satellites observed on our planet. Download the CNN Weather app on iOS to see more. https://t.co/pNWxTAj5Cc https://t.co/m06BDMQc6M

    2600113K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20262.8x their median

    The Nepali army has released video showing rescuers saving several people from the tunnel of a hydro power plant in Rasuwa. The footage shows survivors crawling through thick mud to reach rescuers. Follow live updates: https://t.co/0FTWIN3DG3 https://t.co/slnl8SWg5w

    173205.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20262.6x their median

    Torrential rain overwhelmed Hilo's Rainbow Falls after Lala passed through overnight as a Category 1 Hurricane in Hawaii's Big Island. https://t.co/GJlE2uj6ce

    145205.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20262.6x their median

    The Perseids meteor shower peaked during the same week as a solar eclipse, creating a rare astronomical alignment for stargazers. https://t.co/LlqTcM41Lv

    155016.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20262.4x their median

    Floodwater swamped parts of Crooksville, Ohio, after heavy rain triggered a rare flash flood emergency. https://t.co/CNHpAeVJVN

    117103.3K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20262.3x their median

    Rain and flooding from Tropical Storm Narra hit southwest China and northern Vietnam, forcing thousands to leave their homes. https://t.co/hcq8vQOUVK

    115113.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20262.1x their median

    Strong winds turned a plane upside down at an airport in northern Italy on Friday, as a violent storm brought down trees and caused damage across the area. https://t.co/YAP4pnaYZw

    115015.2K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 72 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,791 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 3.1K times each, and 0.258% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.177% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 72 posts sampled, 90% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 140 interactions, about 18x its own typical post.

What is CNN Weather's engagement rate on X?
CNN Weather (@CNNweather) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 72 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,753,058 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, CNN Weather sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @CNNweather have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @CNNweather post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.4 posts per day across the measured window.

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