John Stossel engagement report
@JohnStossel - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 65 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 2.2K interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.173%. Posts are seen about 39K times each, and 5.59% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.09% 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, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 65 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 10x its own typical post.
Measured over 65 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 26, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.173%, John Stossel sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 91% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 9% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 91% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 9% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 249 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Aug 16, 202610x their median
JUST IN: Mississippi 4th graders rank No. 1 in U.S. for reading & math score improvement since 2013, after ranking 49th in reading & 50th in math that year.
- Aug 6, 20269.1x their median
Seattle passed a $26/hour min wage to help gig workers. It made things WORSE. Driver pay didn’t rise, but customers pay more, and restaurants get fewer orders. “The actual effect … sabotage one of the most successful businesses in the city," says @judgeglock of @ManhattanInst. https://t.co/Rsz1P1zqeV
- Aug 8, 20267.0x their median
Four years ago, I interviewed a woman whose home was seized over unpaid taxes. But her house was worth $286K MORE than what she owed. The Supreme Court now says that's unconstitutional. Yet she still hasn’t gotten her money back: https://t.co/tBKKfGQw0J
- Aug 30, 20266.8x their median
For years, Europe’s economy was about the size of America’s. Not today. Today, the U.S. is 50% RICHER--despite the EU having 100 million MORE people. What changed? https://t.co/oSTQVFC9kA
- Jul 30, 20266.6x their median
Before Fauci pled the Fifth 100+ times, I covered @RandPaul's claim that Fauci sent American money to Wuhan, China, to fund research that might have created the COVID pandemic. At the time, Paul was called a conspiracy theorist. Here's how that went down: https://t.co/qg6xLxZZcx
- Sep 9, 20266.1x their median
Better go see the Great Barrier Reef before it disappears! Actually, you have plenty of time, because coral cover has actually INCREASED in the last 20 years. More surprising facts here: https://t.co/q59IgU5q9Q
- Sep 4, 20265.8x their median
8 years ago… I reported on Philadelphia’s new tax on soda. The politicians promised to spend the money on early childhood education. 8 years later… here’s what happened: https://t.co/oXMZtZ9VvB
- Oct 1, 20265.0x their median
Better go see the Great Barrier Reef before it disappears! Actually, you have plenty of time, because coral cover has actually INCREASED in the last 20 years. More surprising facts here: https://t.co/EYjsrMHpQO
- Oct 10, 20264.7x their median
“Major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas ... by 2020!" reported The Guardian in 2004. But wait, 2020 was six years ago! No cities are underwater. In this video, I debunk activists' claims about polar bears, droughts, bees, food shortages and more: https://t.co/3CBpG6TjtE
- Aug 9, 20264.5x their median
.@BernieSanders says he doesn’t want Cuban or Soviet socialism, he's looking at "countries like Denmark and Sweden." But @RandPaul points out that not only are Denmark and Sweden mostly NOT socialist -- but the big government they do have isn't working so well: https://t.co/XRZqUQ547d
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 2.2K interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.173%. Posts are seen about 39K times each, and 5.59% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.09% 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, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 65 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 10x its own typical post.
- What is John Stossel's engagement rate on X?
- John Stossel (@JohnStossel) has an engagement rate of 0.173%, based on the median interactions across 65 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,274,473 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.173%, John Stossel sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,261 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 @JohnStossel have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @JohnStossel post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.