Face The Nation engagement report
@FaceTheNation - 514K followers on X
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 120 interactions against 514K followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 3,810 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 16K times each, and 0.749% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 20x its own typical post.
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Face The Nation's engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 43% 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 0.023%, Face The Nation sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,960 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 16, 202620x their median
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) says “it’s time” to abolish the Electoral College, arguing “in Kentucky, we will never see a candidate for president or vice president unless they're from here.” “Why? Because people just expect that it'll go one way or the other,” Beshear says. “It's the idea that someone would get elected not just knowing about seven states, but having to earn votes all over the United States.”
- Aug 16, 20264.4x their median
Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District State Rep. Chris Rabb, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, says he and Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) “have a lot more in common than people would think.” When asked about Beshear referring to socialism as a failed experiment, Rabb says varying political views “have molded us into the nation we are today,” and the U.S. “is not a purely capitalistic society.” “This is something that we have to understand…it is an evolution,” he adds. “Pure capitalism has never worked. Communism is not something that we have seen effectively work.”
- Aug 23, 20263.5x their median
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz says a third of Americans who get prescriptions “leave empty-handed from the drugstore because our drugs cost much more than they cost in other countries.” Dr. Oz says that’s why the Trump administration pursued the most-favored-nation deals with pharmaceutical companies. “We are not telling companies what they can charge,” he says. “We are saying whatever you charge overseas, you got to charge here. No more of this global freeloading. And thankfully, the 17 companies representing 85% of the drug sector all came onboard.” “Medicare beneficiaries are rapidly getting access to these deals…,” he adds. “Medicare beneficiaries have full access to some of the drugs, like the fertility drugs.”
- Aug 16, 20262.4x their median
When asked whether there should be a congressional investigation into the USS Abraham Lincoln and what occurred during its nearly nine-month deployment after some families voiced concerns about conditions on the ship, including mental health issues, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) says, “We should have oversight.” “We should bring in the secretary of the Navy and/or…the service chief of the Navy and have them explain to us the truth on that,” Bacon says.
- Aug 16, 20262.0x their median
A new @CBSNewsPoll finds 58% of Democrats have a positive view of socialism, and just 32% have a positive view of capitalism. “I believe socialism is a failed experiment but I do believe that we need to get results for the American people,” Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) says. https://t.co/5i5jb5dmpQ
- Aug 23, 20262.0x their median
The U.S. economy is entering uncharted territory. The national debt hit a record $40 trillion last week, while persistent inflation fears rattled financial markets and pushed borrowing costs to their highest levels in two decades. The Treasury Department stepped in midweek to provide relief, but by Friday, borrowing costs had climbed back to where they were.
- Aug 16, 20261.8x their median
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) says President Trump “was being honest” when he told Americans this weekend to accept higher gas prices as the war with Iran continues. Bacon adds that the president was “setting maybe false expectations” during the initial months about how long the military campaign against Iran would last. “This is going to be a longer-term fight and I think he needed to set appropriate and honest expectations here.”
- Aug 23, 20261.7x their median
The Pentagon has fired three employees of Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper partly funded by taxpayers that has long operated with editorial independence, citing insubordination. Publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, and Reporter Lara Korte all said that alleged insubordination was related to an interview they gave to @CBSSunday that aired in July.
- Aug 16, 20261.7x their median
When asked whether a Democratic Socialists of America statement commemorating former Cuban president Fidel Castro reinforces people’s concerns about the organization, DSA member and Pennsylvania State Rep. Chris Rabb says he’s “not concerned with how people construe this organization,” but rather “interested in finding what we have in common so we can move this country forward.” “If we reach those folks who are inclined to vote for the Democrats but don't because we're not fighting for them, we have a far more likely chance of winning than reaching out to folks who under no circumstances would consider folks who embrace values like healthcare is a human right or housing is a human right or not having a trillionaire class,” he says.
- Aug 16, 20261.7x their median
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he has heard “absolutely nothing back” from Sen. Mitch McConnell after requesting updates on the senator’s condition. Beshear (D-KY) says while he wishes McConnell “good health,” the senator should address the public directly. “His boss are the people of Kentucky.”
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 120 interactions against 514K followers, an engagement rate of 0.023%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 3,810 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 16K times each, and 0.749% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.11% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 20x its own typical post.
- What is Face The Nation's engagement rate on X?
- Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) has an engagement rate of 0.023%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 513,743 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.023%, Face The Nation sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,960 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 @FaceTheNation have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 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 @FaceTheNation post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.13 posts per day across the measured window.