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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

Per follower
0.173%
of 1.3M followers
Per impression
5.59%
39K views on a typical post
Reach
3.09%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.2K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.393%
155 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.2/day
active 100% of days
Peak time
21:00 UTC
Wednesday

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%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 21:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 21:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video91% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link9% 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.

    20K1.7K3574303.9M viewsView on X
  • 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

    16K2.9K420179582K viewsView on X
  • 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

    12K3.3K19189156K viewsView on X
  • 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

    12K2.6K312156364K viewsView on X
  • 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

    12K2.3K237114198K viewsView on X
  • 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

    11K2.6K11463112K viewsView on X
  • 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

    10K2.1K24288389K viewsView on X
  • 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

    8.8K2.2K924990K viewsView on X
  • 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

    7.5K2.5K14711783K viewsView on X
  • 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

    8.1K1.7K13233119K viewsView on X

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.

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