Leader John Thune engagement report
@LeaderJohnThune - 371K followers on X
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 371K followers, an engagement rate of 0.308%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 20,444 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 42K times each, and 2.71% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Leader John Thune's engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 76% 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 0.308%, Leader John Thune sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,694 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.677%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 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 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 86% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 4% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 86% 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.
- 4% 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 258 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 7, 202613x their median
.@SenateGOP has been delivering real wins for the American people. And our work continues. https://t.co/27R7Uk0fu0
- Jul 23, 20268.6x their median
I carry the sense of community and belonging I had growing up in Murdo with me to this day. And I carry those small-town South Dakotans with me in a special way in my work here in Washington. https://t.co/r17Dg6hJEl
- Jul 28, 20268.0x their median
After processing this next batch of 74 Trump nominees, the Senate will have confirmed nearly every nominee available for floor consideration. My @SenateGOP colleagues and I are also advancing legislation that’s key to our shared Republican agenda. https://t.co/T3Mzh9wHE0
- Jul 21, 20267.7x their median
The country has already seen too much disruption in the past year, with two record-breaking shutdowns. I believe it is in everyone’s best interests to pass a clean continuing resolution as quickly as possible so the American people can have confidence that the government will be open and government employees will receive paychecks.
- Jul 20, 20267.5x their median
To quote the New York Times, “Many Americans Say the Democratic Party Does Not Share Their Priorities.” Men in women’s sports. Abortion up until the moment of birth. Open borders. Defunding law enforcement. Democrats are getting more extreme. https://t.co/JGfphaFBp5
- Aug 4, 20266.7x their median
By the end of the week, the Senate will confirm well over 70 of @POTUS’ highly qualified nominations. This means that the Senate will have confirmed available nominations at the best pace in 25 years, outpacing the past three administrations. https://t.co/MB4lXj5qbG
- Aug 3, 20266.5x their median
From the very beginning of his second term, Democrats met @POTUS’ nominees with a historic level of obstruction. But @SenateGOP has been on a mission to ensure that the president has his nominees in place so that he can do the job the American people elected him to do. https://t.co/KXHZvDTLfy
- Jul 23, 20265.9x their median
Despite historic Democrat obstruction, Senate Republicans are continuing to confirm @POTUS’ well-qualified judges ahead of the pace of the president’s first term. https://t.co/DIDWT6T2PX
- Sep 15, 20265.7x their median
More than 50 million Americans use cryptocurrency, and they overwhelmingly agree that it is time to introduce some regulations and guidance for this industry. If Democrats do not take 'yes' for an answer, those responsible for impeding a successful result will be clear to everyone.
- Sep 1, 20265.6x their median
I’m glad that congressional Republicans not only prioritized removing the threat of another dangerous government shutdown, but we did our job weeks before the deadline and with bipartisan support. While funding the government is one of our most basic responsibilities, my hope is that this effort proves that government shutdowns serve no one, and we should quickly complete our work on the fiscal year 2027 appropriations process.
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 1.1K interactions against 371K followers, an engagement rate of 0.308%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 87% of 20,444 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 42K times each, and 2.71% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 86% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
- What is Leader John Thune's engagement rate on X?
- Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) has an engagement rate of 0.308%, based on the median interactions across 28 original posts from the last 30 days against 370,873 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.308%, Leader John Thune sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,694 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 @LeaderJohnThune have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 87% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @LeaderJohnThune post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.13 posts per day across the measured window.