The Epoch Times engagement report
@EpochTimes - 840K followers on X
Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 44 interactions against 840K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 3,917 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 12K times each, and 0.378% 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 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video, 65% are part of a thread and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 578 interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Epoch Times's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 26% 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 0.005%, The Epoch Times 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 20:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 27, 202613x their median
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. said that officials in Pennsylvania may have made up deaths associated with measles. The Pennsylvania Department of Health and Gov. Shapiro said on Wednesday that Pennsylvania had recorded the first deaths related to measles in 35 years. “The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor’s hopeful staffers,” Kennedy wrote in a post on X. “The Lancaster County Coroner says that it has no record of any measles deaths. State law requires that all measles deaths be reported to the coroner.”
- Aug 28, 202611x their median
Nepal: Survivors Pulled From Rasuwa Power Plant Tunnel Survivors were pulled from a Nepal power plant tunnel in an extraordinary rescue. https://t.co/N0Lx6FqwWi
- Aug 29, 20268.5x their median
ICE Flight Lands in Haiti With Deportees From US The United States on Thursday deported dozens more people to Haiti following a recent gang attack that left 47 dead and more than 50 kidnapped. https://t.co/9agggBg8yq
- Aug 22, 20268.3x their median
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s lawyers have created a fund for people to donate for his legal expenses. The fund “has been established to help pay the costs of the ongoing legal representation of Dr. Fauci,” according to its website. “Dr. Fauci is facing an unprecedented legal barrage for a retired civil servant, and he deserves a robust defense against these unfounded and frivolous actions,” David Schertler, a lawyer representing Fauci, told Reuters. The legal fund was established after Dr. David Morens, a senior adviser to Fauci for 16 years, admitted to defrauding the government by destroying records subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
- Aug 22, 20265.8x their median
USPS has published new rules that would require states that use the agency for mail-in voting in federal elections to first submit lists of voters who receive mailed ballots. To enroll an individual, state election officials would have to submit the voter’s name and address through a new online portal, along with unique “Intelligent Mail barcodes” assigned to both the outbound ballot envelope and the return ballot envelope. The regulations stem from President Donald Trump’s March 31 executive order, which, among other things, directed USPS to develop rules governing mail-in and absentee ballots used in federal elections.
- Aug 23, 20265.8x their median
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, made his second push in two weeks to halt the Muslim foot washing facilities at his state’s airports on Friday. “DFW [Dallas Fort Worth International Airport] stopped plans to install additional Islamic wudu washing facilities after I threatened to withhold state grants to entities operating these airports,” Abbott wrote. Abbott wrote that he had “referred both government-owned airports to the U.S. Department of Justice for investigation and enforcement” and added: “If the existing facilities are on city owned property, Texas will pursue litigation for religious discrimination at taxpayer-funded facilities.”
- Aug 28, 20265.5x their median
Ceuta Residents Destroy Illegal Immigrant Camp as Tensions Rise in Spanish Exclave Residents of the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa destroyed a makeshift camp of illegal immigrants on a beach on Aug. 27. https://t.co/7r9eJvvyzw
- Aug 30, 20263.8x their median
A South Carolina police officer died and a second was injured in a “gunfight” in a park, following a call about a domestic dispute. The suspect, a 33-year-old man with a lengthy criminal record, also died. The deceased officer, 29-year-old Christopher DeLong, had been with the police department for two years and leaves behind a wife and two young children. “Our hearts are broken this evening."
- Aug 30, 20263.0x their median
Young Girl Rescued From Rubble in Nepal Nepal’s Armed Police Force released a dramatic video of a young girl’s rescue from a collapsed building. https://t.co/CEe7x4VQ7Z
- Aug 23, 20263.0x their median
Florida public schools this year begin required lessons on communist atrocities, including Mao’s Cultural Revolution and other mass killings. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill in April 2024 and the State Board of Education approved the specific standards in November 2025, with instruction beginning this school year. Six districts have said that instead of offering either of Florida’s two dedicated History of Communism electives this school year, the required material is being taught through courses students already take, including history, civics, government, economics, and personal finance. Florida already required some instruction about communist regimes before the new law.
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 44 interactions against 840K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 3,917 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 12K times each, and 0.378% 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 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video, 65% are part of a thread and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 578 interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
- What is The Epoch Times's engagement rate on X?
- The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 57 original posts from the last 30 days against 840,224 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, The Epoch Times 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 @EpochTimes have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @EpochTimes post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.03 posts per day across the measured window.