Senator John Cornyn engagement report
@JohnCornyn - 413K followers on X
Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 53 interactions against 413K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 3,899 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 7.3K times each, and 0.722% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.78% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 14% carry an image or video and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 48x its own typical post.
Measured over 22 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Senator John Cornyn's engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 42% 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 0.013%, Senator John Cornyn sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
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 | 156.3% |
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 13:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 29, 202648x their median
A new poll finds that President Trump’s tariffs are unpopular in Texas, especially among Hispanics. https://t.co/jYQDhEQRCj via @WSJopinion
- Aug 30, 202613x their median
You met all the nicest people on X
- Aug 30, 202611x their median
NEW!!! GOP Sen. Kennedy: “You need to put down the bong if you think that Iran and China are not helping Russia in that war. They're all related. The quarterback is Xi.” 👇 https://t.co/D36Z36SQhM
- Aug 30, 20266.4x their median
Early voting for midterms in Texas starts in 50 days
- Aug 25, 20264.7x their median
Under Secretary Emil Michael (@USWREMichael) explains how the @DeptofWar is sending a clear demand signal to industry: "We want investors to crowd capital around these companies. Both in the @DARPA Lift Challenge, where their contest was effectively a 4:1 ratio of weight that the drone could carry versus the weight of the drone, and in Drone Dominance, where we have objective measures and we compete these companies at the same time in the same place against one another, we give the signal to those venture capitalists to say, 'These are the companies that are winning, that are doing well, that are innovating fast.'"
- Aug 27, 20264.6x their median
Amid speculation about what was communicated during @CIADirector Ratcliffe’s trip to Moscow this week, it’s worthwhile to recall what Director Ratcliffe said publicly last month during @SenMcCormickPA’s Defense & Innovation Summit on July 14-15. It may have been the most important message the Director sent Russia this summer. Message is that another “inferior force”, say a Baltic state, could do the same. Director Ratcliffe: "Our intelligence is consistent with some of the open-source reporting you may have seen in Ukraine: the average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now, arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine, is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes. And that's because AI-powered drones have gotten to be such specialised, low-cost killing machines. So it's why an inferior force, 4 and a half years later, has held off the superior force of Russia against Ukraine. The pace of their advance has stopped as Ukraine's mastery of emerging technologies, and in this case, drone warfare, asymmetric warfare, is such a great equalizer," the Central Intelligence Agency chief said at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit. https://t.co/CVBrFIrjPj
- Aug 17, 20263.7x their median
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- Aug 29, 20261.9x their median
President Trump confirmed late Friday that the U.S. reached a deal with Venezuela to secure control of a big chunk of the Latin American country’s oil reserves https://t.co/e2MqgZ17zZ via @WSJ
- Aug 26, 2026
Some 18 years after California voted to launch a train that would travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under three hours, the project has yet to lay its first track https://t.co/wwJIhbhme6 via @WSJ
- Aug 30, 2026
Russia has turned up the heat on Kyiv’s allies in Europe, with a string of “gray zone” activities aimed at sowing fear https://t.co/hvOBepiGUA via @WSJ
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 53 interactions against 413K followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 22 original posts, its engagement rate beats 33% of 3,899 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 7.3K times each, and 0.722% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.78% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 22 posts sampled, 14% carry an image or video and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 48x its own typical post.
- What is Senator John Cornyn's engagement rate on X?
- Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 22 original posts from the last 30 days against 412,814 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.013%, Senator John Cornyn sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 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 @JohnCornyn have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 33% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @JohnCornyn post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.13 posts per day across the measured window.