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Senator Jeff Merkley engagement report

@SenJeffMerkley - 448K followers on X

Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.048%
of 448K followers
Per impression
3.26%
6.6K views on a typical post
Reach
1.48%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
217
interactions (median)
Saved
0.045%
3 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.37/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 217 interactions against 448K followers, an engagement rate of 0.048%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 3,899 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 6.6K times each, and 3.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 19% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 8.2x its own typical post.

Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026. Recurring tag: #breakfreefromplastic.

Compared with accounts its own size

Senator Jeff Merkley's engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 83% 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 0.048%, Senator Jeff Merkley sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99155.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,856 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 97,248 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 percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile155.6%

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 20:00 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: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 20:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%53K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%52K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%50K
07:00 UTC-5%54K
08:00 UTC-4%63K
09:00 UTC-3%72K
10:00 UTC-2%75K
11:00 UTC-3%81K
12:00 UTC-2%90K
13:00 UTC-2%98K
14:00 UTC-3%101K
15:00 UTC-2%105K
16:00 UTC-4%102K
17:00 UTC-3%95K
18:00 UTC-1%88K
19:00 UTC-2%83K
20:00 UTC-1%77K
21:00 UTC-1%69K
22:00 UTC-2%60K
23:00 UTC-2%53K
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+5%238K
Monday0%302K
Tuesday-3%302K
Wednesday-1%257K
Thursday-2%250K
Friday-3%259K
Saturday+3%233K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 24, 20268.2x their median

    President Donald Trump wants to interfere with mail voting during the upcoming midterm elections, and he’s betting the U.S. Supreme Court will let him. https://t.co/duI22A0jBo

    1.1K48921021138K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20264.0x their median

    Dolly Parton lived her life doing good and bringing joy to millions of people. In her song "Eugene Oregon," she sang that she'd remember the kindness of our state for the rest of her life—just as we'll remember the love and good deeds she put into the world.

    7747810114K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20263.8x their median

    When I was in the West Bank last year, I heard firsthand about Netanyahu government’s failure to hold extremist settlers accountable for harassment and violence. Palestinians, including Palestinian Americans, are being cut off from their homes, threatened, and attacked—encouraged by the Netanyahu government. Wrong under every moral code. https://t.co/rh7q7wbEL5

    54717294714K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.8x their median

    Looking for good news? This could be the science story of the year: personalized mRNA vaccines that teach your immune system to attack cancer cells. The strategy is most advanced for melanoma, but research is underway to use mRNA tactics against many other forms of cancer. https://t.co/OadB1X4wcP

    4161246849.0K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20262.5x their median

    The Trump Administration is standing in the way of progress—blocking the cheaper, cleaner renewable energy that could help us tackle the sky-high utility bills folks are being saddled with across the country. I’m fighting for clean energy solutions that will lower YOUR bills!

    3089114548.2K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20262.1x their median

    In the year since Trump’s Big, Ugly Betrayal: 8 million Americans have lost their health care. Energy prices are through the roof. Food assistance gutted for more than 4 million people, including 808,000 kids. The billionaires who got a HUGE tax break? They're doing just fine.

    1847919479.4K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20261.9x their median

    It’s not enough to raise alarm about Trump’s authoritarian agenda—we need to act now to stop it. That’s why I put together the For Our Republic Act—a comprehensive plan to oppose authoritarianism in America, drawing on the expertise of senators from across the country.

    1855215898.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 2026

    Great conversation with folks in Bend about how we root out corruption and restore government by and for the people! https://t.co/VnvOLg8B3a

    1222416587.1K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 2026

    Republicans aren’t rooting out fraud. They’re inviting it. If my colleagues across the aisle get serious about cracking down on fraud—like Trump’s pardons for convicted Medicare fraudsters—I’m all ears. https://t.co/AXSfJACO48

    1104812264.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 2026

    Trump has abused his office to boost crypto schemes that have made his family BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. That’s exactly why I wrote the End Crypto Corruption Act—to tackle this kind of blatant corruption.

    166367858.7K 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

#breakfreefromplastic

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 217 interactions against 448K followers, an engagement rate of 0.048%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 3,899 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 6.6K times each, and 3.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.48% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 41% carry an image or video and 19% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.8K interactions, about 8.2x its own typical post.

What is Senator Jeff Merkley's engagement rate on X?
Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) has an engagement rate of 0.048%, based on the median interactions across 27 original posts from the last 30 days against 448,247 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.048%, Senator Jeff Merkley sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 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 @SenJeffMerkley have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @SenJeffMerkley post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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