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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 September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.145%
of 1.3M followers
Per impression
4.22%
44K views on a typical post
Reach
3.45%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.9K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.426%
187 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.27/day
active 100% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Wednesday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,852 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,564 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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.

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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

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  • Aug 6, 202611x their median

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

    9.9K2.1K273130295K viewsView on X
  • 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

    8.1K1.7K13233119K viewsView on X
  • 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

    7.4K2.0K15862315K viewsView on X
  • 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

    6.6K1.1K10443159K viewsView on X
  • 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

    5.8K90519746132K viewsView on X
  • 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

    4.9K1.2K703889K 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 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.

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