Chris Cillizza engagement report
@ChrisCillizza - 563K followers on X
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 12 interactions against 563K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,917 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 7.8K times each, and 0.153% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.39% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 26% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 71% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 1060x its own typical post.
Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Chris Cillizza's engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 12% 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%, Chris Cillizza sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,856 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 | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 23:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 20261060x their median
https://t.co/usRrbiWjJe
- Aug 26, 202696x their median
Annie Andrews releases internal poll showing race w/ Sen. Darline Graham tied at 41-41 National Dems have been reluctant to put this race on their battlefield mix so far Memo says "with the proper resources to both defend her values and highlight Graham’s weaknesses, Annie Andrews has a chance to pull off a major upset – and this opportunity is worth national investment" https://t.co/Iq2LqHWfoA
- Aug 25, 202650x their median
REPORT: Wizards and Mystics games will now be streamed through DAZN Fans will still be able to watch the Wiz/Mystics with a Monumental+ subscription 🔥 https://t.co/eCUol58v3h
- Aug 25, 202614x their median
Given the polling in PA, John Fetterman has 3 options heading into 2028: 1. Retire 2. Run for president — probably as an independent/third party candidate 3. Switch parties I now think #3 is the most likely BY FAR Read why at link in next tweet!
- Aug 26, 20266.3x their median
The words people say when you say "Democratic Party." Not great! (via @PuckNews and @EchelonInsights) https://t.co/QgfkNwsUPj
- Aug 25, 20264.7x their median
Trump administration says it might **demolish** the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations https://t.co/qwsmqKsBix
- Aug 26, 20262.4x their median
Thanks to everyone -- 22k+ folks! -- on our SC-Runoff livestream! We are back NEXT Tuesday for the Massachusetts Senate primary between Ed Markey and Seth Moulton! TUNE IN!
- Aug 26, 20262.2x their median
BIG vote drop just now in Greenville...Ralph Norman closes the gap...but can he catch Darline Graham?? We are LIVE HERE: https://t.co/cJyzqKctIH https://t.co/vdo1gfSXPh
- Aug 26, 20261.7x their median
"We haven't ruled anything in, and we haven't ruled anything out." -- @RepJeffries on a D-controlled House impeaching Trump If Dems do this, it will be a COLOSSAL own goal I explain why in the next tweet... https://t.co/AKmgfUuulc
- Aug 26, 20261.5x their median
Why is the SC runoff still look better for Darline Graham? Via the @DecisionDeskHQ Boiler Room: "Graham still has 90k very pro votes left." That is mostly in Horry, Richland and Charleston County Tune in for LIVE coverage: https://t.co/cJyzqKctIH
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 12 interactions against 563K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 16% of 3,917 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 7.8K times each, and 0.153% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.39% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 26% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 71% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 13K interactions, about 1060x its own typical post.
- What is Chris Cillizza's engagement rate on X?
- Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 563,003 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Chris Cillizza sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,856 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 @ChrisCillizza have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 16% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @ChrisCillizza post?
- Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.23 posts per day across the measured window.