John Stossel engagement report
@JohnStossel - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 65 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.9K interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.145%. Measured over 65 original posts, its engagement rate beats 79% of 3,809 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 44K times each, and 4.22% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.45% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 65 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 12x its own typical post.
Measured over 65 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
John Stossel's engagement rate beats 79% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 88% 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 0.145%, John Stossel sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.435%.
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 14:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 16, 202612x 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, 202611x 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, 20268.4x 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
- Jul 30, 20267.9x 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
- Aug 30, 20266.7x 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
- Aug 9, 20265.4x 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
- Aug 1, 20265.2x their median
I assumed belief in socialism would die with the Soviet Union. But it didn't…now New York City and Seattle have elected socialist mayors. I wish more people listened to economists Friedrich Hayek & Ludwig von Mises. Years ago, they explained why central planning doesn’t work: https://t.co/06RpVxPUHi
- Aug 27, 20264.3x their median
A nuclear plant that politicians "shut down for good" just reopened. Anti-nuclear Activists call it a "nightmare.” But this time, they're losing. Good. Watch below for more on nuclear: https://t.co/pZVcSKq64S
- Aug 9, 20263.8x their median
Bill Gates just built a nuclear reactor big enough to power 400,000 homes. It's the first new reactor America has approved in a decade. Turns out we can still build new things here, when bureaucrats get out of the way. The story on nuclear’s comeback below: https://t.co/54RIVbinae
- Aug 5, 20263.4x their median
Hasan Piker says capitalism is the enemy. So he flew to Cuba to experience socialism firsthand, ironically while wearing $1,300 Cartier glasses. That's why @robkhenderson calls socialism a "luxury belief.” Stossel TV Fellow Leyla Taghiyeva of @sfliberty has more: https://t.co/WopHh5ngs8
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 1.9K interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.145%. Measured over 65 original posts, its engagement rate beats 79% of 3,809 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 44K times each, and 4.22% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.45% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 65 posts sampled, 88% carry an image or video and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 12x its own typical post.
- What is John Stossel's engagement rate on X?
- John Stossel (@JohnStossel) has an engagement rate of 0.145%, based on the median interactions across 65 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,271,182 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.145%, John Stossel sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,852 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?
- Its engagement rate beats 79% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @JohnStossel post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.27 posts per day across the measured window.