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Pepe Escobar engagement report

@RealPepeEscobar - 264K followers on X

Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 8, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.354%
of 264K followers
Per impression
4.57%
20K views on a typical post
Reach
7.75%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
936
interactions (median)
Saved
0.168%
34 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.47/day
active 17% of days
Peak time
09:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 936 interactions against 264K followers, an engagement rate of 0.354%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 82% of 6,874 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 20K times each, and 4.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.75% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.

Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 8, 2026. Recurring tag: #turkeywatch.

Compared with accounts its own size

Pepe Escobar's engagement rate beats 82% 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 87% 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 0.354%, Pepe Escobar sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,258 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.1% to 0.499%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.499%
p902.09%
p99119.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 66,258 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 56,968 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 percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.499%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile119.6%

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 09:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 09:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 09:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video56% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link33% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 56% 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.
  • 33% 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 589 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.

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, 20264.4x their median

    https://t.co/IdWiVeNh98

    3.1K898431438K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20262.1x their median

    PUTIN IN KYRGYZSTAN Putin: "I can confirm it again: any military facilities in Ukraine are legitimate targets for us, British or otherwise." Question: "And if these weapons are used on Russian territory, is there a red line? Could British defense facilities on British soil become military targets?" Putin: "That’s classified. Military secret."

    1.7K2968858K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20261.9x their median

    The upcoming election in in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, on Sunday, is about to cause one of the biggest political earthquakes in recent German history, and the shockwaves will be heard all across Europe. The AfD is currently leading the polls by a huge margin, and indeed is on track to secure an absolute majority of seats. This would be a historic triumph for the AfD and mark the definitive collapse of the “firewall” erected around the party in recent years. Not only would it be the first time the party takes power in a state, but it wouldn’t have to share that power with anyone else — a feat hitherto achieved only by the two main establishment parties, the CDU/CSU and the SPD. Moreover, if the AfD were to take control of a state it would inevitably have to be reckoned with at the national level too — precisely what the anti-AfD firewall was designed to prevent at all costs. No wonder the German political establishment is in a state of panic, and is already war-gaming how to stop the AfD from governing if they should win — studying an arsenal of extraordinary measures designed, in effect, to prevent a possible AfD state government from exercising its mandate. The picture that emerges is unmistakable: the same German establishment that is constantly lecturing other countries about democracy and the rule of law is demonstrating that democracy is tolerated only so long as it produces results deemed acceptable. When democratic processes produce an unwelcome government, or risk doing so, ways are sought to circumvent it, to hollow it out or to render it harmless — all in the name of “defending democracy”, of course. The firewall may be crumbling, but the establishment appears intent on laying the foundations for something far more impregnable. Read my latest article for @unherd here: https://t.co/8c0D3pnRPu

    1.2K436443090K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20261.8x their median

    🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇳🇵🇰🇮🇷🇧🇾🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇺🇿 The Bishkek Declaration may have been ultra-diplomatic. But they key points are VERY clear. It condemns the attack on Iran. Supports the reform of the international financial system. Propels the SCO to a key role debating global questions. Refutes double standards on terrorism. Opposes interference on sovereignty of states. Reaffirms indivisibility of security. Eurasia Rollin'.

    1.3K394251229K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20261.8x their median

    Pay VERY close attention to Naryshkin - one of the most well-informed people on the planet. He's saying that the risk of Total War ACROSS THE ENTIRE EURASIAN SPACE is quite real. https://t.co/jFtOJ7mR27

    1.3K351381660K viewsView on X
  • Jun 8, 20261.8x their median

    https://t.co/BH1otHN2cC

    1.1K4456128241K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 2026

    Old fox Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft, laid down the law in Vladivostok. He confirmed that CHINA, not OPEC now drives the price of oil globally.

    1.0K21911824K viewsView on X
  • Sep 2, 2026

    🇨🇳 « L'Asie est l'avenir, l'Europe est le passé », a déclaré le professeur Zhang Weiwei, doyen de l'Institut de Chine à l'Université Fudan, lors du Forum économique de l'Est. « Si vous étiez ici il y a 100 ans, en 1926, c'était l'inverse. » https://t.co/Iuc8zUnAFk

    838236402244K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 2026

    One of the key documents signed at the SCO in Bishkek: regulating the Universal Center for Countering Security Challenges and Threats to SCO Member States. As in fighting imperial Hybrid - and Hot - Wars. Iran also proposed a development bank and an energy consortium. https://t.co/wyP0k1wN8O

    849249161120K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 2026

    PUTIN IN VLADIVOSTOK The key breakdown: Russia is going for 365, 24/7 year-round navigation on the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor. Joint development with China. Safe, dependable, with the Northern Sea Route as its backbone: icebreakers abound. Bye bye, Suez. https://t.co/uBAlUtuQ21

    84823091816K 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.

Recurring topics

#turkeywatch

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 936 interactions against 264K followers, an engagement rate of 0.354%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 82% of 6,874 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 20K times each, and 4.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.75% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.1K interactions, about 4.4x its own typical post.

What is Pepe Escobar's engagement rate on X?
Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) has an engagement rate of 0.354%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 264,400 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.354%, Pepe Escobar sits above the 50th percentile of the 66,258 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 @RealPepeEscobar have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 82% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @RealPepeEscobar post?
Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.47 posts per day across the measured window.

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