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
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%.
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 | 119.6% |
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.
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 | 56% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 33% 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
- 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."
- 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
- 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'.
- 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
- Jun 8, 20261.8x their median
https://t.co/BH1otHN2cC
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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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.