Erin Burnett OutFront engagement report
@OutFrontCNN - 314K followers on X
Measured over 34 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 794 interactions against 314K followers, an engagement rate of 0.254%. Measured over 34 original posts, its engagement rate beats 75% 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 23K times each, and 3.39% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.46% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 34 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.2K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #outfrontthrowback, #townhall.
Measured over 34 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 16, 2026. Recurring tags: #outfrontthrowback, #townhall.
Compared with accounts its own size
Erin Burnett OutFront's engagement rate beats 75% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 78% 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 0.254%, Erin Burnett OutFront sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,881 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.68%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.68% |
| 90th percentile | 2.56% |
| 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 00:00 UTC, and Friday 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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% 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.
- 0% 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 241 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 3, 202612x their median
MapQuest’s top exec, Doug Berger says he was “absolutely blown away” when he saw his company hit #1 on Apple’s app store after refusing to change Lake Ontario to Lake America: “We're fully committed to our users right now, and users are kind of showing what they believe in by downloading our app.”
- Oct 10, 20268.4x their median
“Cruel and unusual form of punishment.” U.S. Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is headed to the most severe form of military trial -- a general court-martial -- after calling for President Trump’s impeachment while in uniform at the U.S. Capitol. His attorney reveals that Maj. Watson has been kept in solitary confinement since August and could face years behind bars.
- Oct 13, 20265.4x their median
CNN’s @KFILE uncovers several deleted posts by Trump’s new White House Press Secretary. Some criticizing the very administration she now represents. https://t.co/2orNRhLLPt
- Oct 14, 20265.3x their median
Former Trump WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham says Trump can’t downplay Kimberly Guilfoyle as someone his son “dated”: “I spent four full years and almost every holiday with Kimberly Guilfoyle and the family at Mar-a-Lago or at Bedminster… she was everywhere.” https://t.co/Y6XzFwC2GL
- Aug 28, 20264.1x their median
Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump is focused on “stupid things” as he signs an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America: “How does changing the name of a lake help the American people? They can’t afford their lives right now, because of his actions.” https://t.co/4iQOsoe4G2
- Oct 7, 20263.0x their median
Top election forecaster Larry Sabato shares new projections moving key Senate races toward Democrats and why he’s certain there will be a “blue wave” next month. https://t.co/CtME4aoBTn
- Oct 14, 20262.7x their median
Lifelong Texas Republicans tell @JeffZeleny they’re backing Democratic nominee James Talarico for Senate over Ken Paxton: “The Republican Party has been hijacked.” https://t.co/Tt265BMDOa
- Oct 8, 20262.6x their median
The NYT’s @kenvogel shares the latest on his bombshell reporting that two of Trump’s top advisers were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help a pro-Putin government at the same time they were leading Trump’s midterm political operation. https://t.co/MRRKwFQtzP
- Oct 7, 20262.2x their median
Former Republican Gov. of South Carolina David Beasley, who has supported Trump in the past, says the president is “tearing this country apart” with divisive rhetoric: “The lack of civility in this nation is going down by the minute, and I don’t think people in America can take it much more.”
- Sep 10, 20262.1x their median
Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who recently had his security clearance revoked by the Trump Administration, says there’s a “climate of fear” in the U.S. military right now “unlike anything” he’s ever seen. https://t.co/VZu8Cu35HR
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 794 interactions against 314K followers, an engagement rate of 0.254%. Measured over 34 original posts, its engagement rate beats 75% 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 23K times each, and 3.39% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.46% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 34 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.2K interactions, about 12x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #outfrontthrowback, #townhall.
- What is Erin Burnett OutFront's engagement rate on X?
- Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) has an engagement rate of 0.254%, based on the median interactions across 34 original posts from the last 30 days against 313,535 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.254%, Erin Burnett OutFront sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,881 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 @OutFrontCNN have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 75% 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 @OutFrontCNN post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.4 posts per day across the measured window.