The Rolling Stones engagement report
@RollingStones - 3.5M followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.4K interactions against 3.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.039%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 103K times each, and 1.34% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.33 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 10x its own typical post.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Rolling Stones's engagement rate beats 69% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 64% 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 0.039%, The Rolling Stones sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 21:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 26, 202610x their median
Happy Birthday, Mick! You continue to inspire generations with your energy, creativity and unmistakable spirit - there is no one quite like you! Wishing you an amazing day! 🎉 https://t.co/T4WdUNlKWA
- Jun 2, 20268.3x their median
Thinking of you on your birthday Charlie, you are so missed 💛 https://t.co/IhX9t7vv7k
- Jul 17, 20265.9x their median
It’s just been announced that The Rolling Stones have hit the No.1 spot on the UK album charts with Foreign Tongues - making it their 15th Official Number 1 album! Thank you to everyone for making this happen! 🎉 https://t.co/Bif34zaDfR
- Jul 8, 20264.8x their median
So this just happened in London… 👀 Mick and Ronnie have surprised guests at a special event, with a performance of Ringing Hollow, from the new album Foreign Tongues - out this Friday! https://t.co/c2mmwL03Z4
- Jul 31, 20264.4x their median
I know we’ve never met, but you seem to know my name… https://t.co/5LpRVPV6pV
- Aug 2, 20263.0x their median
In the studio with the Stones… The making of Mr. Charm. https://t.co/lm1QVp1Ptt
- Jul 10, 20262.9x their median
The wait is over. The brand new album Foreign Tongues is out now: https://t.co/LpY0he8XyO https://t.co/EUEzRcP6DC
- Jun 1, 20262.8x their median
Wishing the one and only @RonnieWood the happiest of birthdays today! Keep on rockin’ Woody! 🎸🎉 https://t.co/xrpcfpIZV6
- Aug 23, 20262.5x their median
“I’m sure Charlie Watts was beaming down on us, so I feel good about that, you know.” - Keith Richards on making Foreign Tongues @officialkeef Photo by Dominique Tarle https://t.co/mumBxRDFua
- Jul 9, 20262.2x their median
Last night, the London skyline lit up with The Rolling Stones iconic tongue and lips in a striking display to celebrate the new album Foreign Tongues, released tomorrow 🎇 https://t.co/LpY0he8XyO https://t.co/ujFTYzzBxw
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 1.4K interactions against 3.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.039%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 103K times each, and 1.34% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.94% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.33 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 10x its own typical post.
- What is The Rolling Stones's engagement rate on X?
- The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) has an engagement rate of 0.039%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,496,347 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.039%, The Rolling Stones sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @RollingStones have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 69% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 @RollingStones post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.33 posts per day across the measured window.