Joyce Carol Oates engagement report
@JoyceCarolOates - 286K followers on X
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 6, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 169 interactions against 286K followers, an engagement rate of 0.059%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 6,874 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 14K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 155x its own typical post.
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 6, 2026. Recurring tag: #travelwithnatalie.
Compared with accounts its own size
Joyce Carol Oates's engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 51% 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 0.059%, Joyce Carol Oates sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,393 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.016% to 0.1%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.499% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.5% |
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 18:00 UTC, and Saturday 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 | 50% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 25% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 50% 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.
- 25% 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 223 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
- Sep 4, 2026155x their median
🚨 JUST IN: Hospital saline has been recalled nationwide after iron oxide and other particles were found inside. FDA warns contaminated doses could cause organ damage. https://t.co/hcgvkbCb22
- Sep 5, 202661x their median
my soul cat passed away today. what am I supposed to do now? I’m not even sure why I’m tweeting this. I just hope someone can stop by and appreciate her for a moment. Her name is Lucy.💔 https://t.co/YghclqPF5d
- Sep 4, 202658x their median
Nothing is more symbolic of trump's presidency than him literally building an arch to honor himself that blocks the view of the final resting place honoring hundreds of thousands of American who gave their lives in sacrifice for their country.
- Sep 5, 202656x their median
Today I was reminded of a ritual now missing from our lives: The "visit". Boomers & gen X grew up with "going visiting". Our parents would load us in the car and we'd go visit with friends and family. The etiquette of visiting was: one cup of coffee w/ a sweet treat, then 1/2
- Sep 5, 202646x their median
You know who is with Trump this weekend in New Jersey. #TravelWithNatalie (Roberto Schmidt/Getty) https://t.co/7idONuQNy9
- Sep 4, 20261.7x their median
“The Innocents” (1961), starring Deborah Kerr. This Jack Clayton adaptation of 'The Turn of the Screw' is one of the few films that does justice to Henry James. It is also terrifying. https://t.co/rkCpAL7XJB
- Sep 6, 2026
Trump arrived in New Jersey on Friday sporting a tousled head of noticeably darker hair, with his familiar side parting suddenly flipped to the opposite side. This comes just weeks after some observers speculated he was using a new hairpiece to augment the sweep of gray/blond hair over his increasingly bald expanse. https://t.co/eh1s9xXAf1
- Sep 6, 2026
Virginia mom gets 6-month suspended jail sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond. The government also placed Karyann Parkinson on its child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years. Full story: https://t.co/HlccBIlYcS https://t.co/1KPXaYXaN7
- Sep 6, 2026
a few weeks ago Twitterers were at one another's throats over "The Odyssey"--or, more specifically, Helen of Troy; now, Twitterers are at one another's throats over the Lindsay Clancy case--or, more specifically, s i m p l e vs. complex next up?
- Sep 6, 2026
watched the Turkish film "Crossing" with several movie-loving friends. quiet, understated, subtly rendered story of a seemingly stern, lonely middle-aged Georgian woman searching for her trans niece who has run away to Istanbul. (but not tourist Istanbul.) unexpectedly, funnily, a sort of road-buddy movie with a tender/enigmatic ending.
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 169 interactions against 286K followers, an engagement rate of 0.059%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 6,874 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 14K times each, and 1.18% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 155x its own typical post.
- What is Joyce Carol Oates's engagement rate on X?
- Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) has an engagement rate of 0.059%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 285,641 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.059%, Joyce Carol Oates sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,393 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 @JoyceCarolOates have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @JoyceCarolOates post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.97 posts per day across the measured window.