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Pepe Escobar engagement report

@RealPepeEscobar - 266K followers on X

Measured over 42 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.402%
of 266K followers
Per impression
4.63%
23K views on a typical post
Reach
8.68%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.1K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.152%
35 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.5/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 266K followers, an engagement rate of 0.402%. Measured over 42 original posts, its engagement rate beats 82% 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 4.63% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.65% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 42 posts sampled, 45% carry an image or video and 40% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.6K interactions, about 4.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #turkeywatch, #yemen, #كاريكاتير.

Measured over 42 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #turkeywatch, #yemen, #كاريكاتير.

Compared with accounts its own size

Pepe Escobar's engagement rate beats 82% 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 85% 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 0.402%, Pepe Escobar sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,880 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 Sunday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video45% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link40% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 45% 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.
  • 40% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 385 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 15, 20264.3x their median

    THE REAL INDIA-CHINA CLASH AT BRICS The members-only top BRICS session. Modi de facto blames Xi for weaponizing rare earth minerals. When the US weaponized semiconductors, India was deaf, dumb and blind. No wonder Xi skipped the gala dinner. The BRICS summit that REALLY matters will be in 2027. In China.

    3.6K7391983788K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20263.8x their median

    https://t.co/IdWiVeNh98

    3.1K898431438K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20263.3x their median

    MbS asked the death cult to help him fight against Yemen. That's all the Ummah needs to know.

    2.9K578641654K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20263.1x their median

    Just compare Lula's speech at the comatose UN with a crude, crass, cruel psycho toddler threatening to "annihilate" a whole nation - code for nuclear genocide - while completely destroying the UN Charter in real time.

    2.7K56523941K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 20263.1x their median

    https://t.co/OlY2MrUzQR

    2.7K523221731K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20262.0x their median

    "We're putting the band back together." https://t.co/kE4LvsgIsX

    1.8K300241027K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20261.9x 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 12, 20261.8x their median

    Cue to exceptionalists totally freaking out. Add the New Delhi Declaration: unilateral and secondary sanctions are ILLEGAL. https://t.co/YeIqLuOd3S

    1.5K322441325K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20261.6x 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
  • Jun 8, 20261.6x their median

    https://t.co/BH1otHN2cC

    1.2K4616228271K 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#yemen#كاريكاتير

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 1.1K interactions against 266K followers, an engagement rate of 0.402%. Measured over 42 original posts, its engagement rate beats 82% 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 4.63% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.65% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 42 posts sampled, 45% carry an image or video and 40% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.6K interactions, about 4.3x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #turkeywatch, #yemen, #كاريكاتير.

What is Pepe Escobar's engagement rate on X?
Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) has an engagement rate of 0.402%, based on the median interactions across 42 original posts from the last 30 days against 265,876 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.402%, Pepe Escobar sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,880 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 (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 @RealPepeEscobar post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.5 posts per day across the measured window.

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