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Rolling Stone engagement report

@RollingStone - 6.3M followers on X

Measured over 360 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 6.3M followers
Per impression
0.298%
33K views on a typical post
Reach
0.52%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
97
interactions (median)
Saved
0.023%
8 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
14.47/day
active 63% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 97 interactions against 6.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 360 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 33K times each, and 0.298% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.518% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 14.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 360 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 104K interactions, about 1071x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rsrecommends, #emmys, #bitchimdrunkoffmyaudacity.

Measured over 360 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #rsrecommends, #emmys, #bitchimdrunkoffmyaudacity.

Compared with accounts its own size

Rolling Stone's engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 27% 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 0.002%, Rolling Stone sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.431%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,137 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 percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.431%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 18:00 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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%53K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%51K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%71K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%93K
14:00 UTC-3%96K
15:00 UTC-2%100K
16:00 UTC-3%97K
17:00 UTC-2%90K
18:00 UTC-1%84K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%229K
Monday0%284K
Tuesday-2%273K
Wednesday-1%250K
Thursday-2%243K
Friday-3%251K
Saturday+3%226K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 17, 20261071x their median

    The two ice princesses. 🤍 https://t.co/VH3PKJrJHI

    87K15K2351.1K2.8M viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 2026144x their median

    "You have no idea how many times in my life I have wished and prayed — if I had wished to go back to any time in my life, it would be going back to 'Remember the Titans.'” - Hayden Panettiere to ET in 2013 https://t.co/LgXWFJtAqX

    13K1.2K32811.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 2026133x their median

    The most successful female country artist of all time and one of the most recognizable artists in the world. 🤍 Honoring the life and legacy of Dolly Parton. https://t.co/gpE0b2cmmo

    12K1.3K362883K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 2026103x their median

    Hayden Panettiere, known for her roles in Heroes and Nashville, has died, according to ABC News. She was 36. Story: https://t.co/avspHZ05mg https://t.co/AlxKbaHusW

    7.6K1.5K2746491.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202697x their median

    Timothy Olyphant on being a distant relative of the Vanderbilt family: "My grandmother’s childhood home is now the Russian Embassy in New York, and my childhood home is on Norwegian Avenue in Modesto. So somewhere, someone’s responsible for fucking things up for me." https://t.co/l8YqwgU8MA

    9.0K2555664740K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202670x their median

    Miley Cyrus remembers her Aunt Dolly 🤍 https://t.co/JFTwbhXJbe

    6.3K507157107K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202650x their median

    Tim Curry, the actor best known for playing the “sweet transvestite” Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and Stephen King’s murderous clown Pennywise in “It,” has died. 🕊️ https://t.co/Le8sEcoLmn

    3.8K8149314797K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202648x their median

    Photographer and activist Linda McCartney will be honored by the United States Postal Service with a series of postage stamps featuring her nature and still life photography. Details ↓ https://t.co/3VBkgXb1tS

    4.0K5662782157K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 202646x their median

    Frank Beard, the longtime, hard-shuffling drummer for Texas rock greats ZZ Top, has died at age 77 https://t.co/XdKMNBiWp7

    2.9K1.0K136406481K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202638x their median

    The state of Tennessee has announced plans to rename the Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton following the country legend's death https://t.co/Dznth6fiRX

    3.3K342291694K 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

#rsrecommends#emmys#bitchimdrunkoffmyaudacity#lostweekend#journalist

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 97 interactions against 6.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 360 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 33K times each, and 0.298% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.518% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 14.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 360 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video and 91% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 104K interactions, about 1071x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rsrecommends, #emmys, #bitchimdrunkoffmyaudacity.

What is Rolling Stone's engagement rate on X?
Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 360 original posts from the last 30 days against 6,286,841 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, Rolling Stone sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @RollingStone have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @RollingStone post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 14.47 posts per day across the measured window.

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