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Senator Jeff Merkley engagement report

@SenJeffMerkley - 447K followers on X

Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.045%
of 447K followers
Per impression
3.59%
5.7K views on a typical post
Reach
1.26%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
203
interactions (median)
Saved
0.035%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.8/day
active 93% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 203 interactions against 447K followers, an engagement rate of 0.045%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 20,444 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 5.7K times each, and 3.59% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video and 37% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21K interactions, about 102x its own typical post.

Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026. Recurring tag: #endtheexception.

Compared with accounts its own size

Senator Jeff Merkley's engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 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 0.045%, Senator Jeff Merkley sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,374 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,374 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,897 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 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 19:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 video32% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link37% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 32% 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.
  • 37% 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 217 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Apr 16, 2026102x their median

    MERKLEY: You didn't include deficit numbers in the budget. Why not? VOUGHT: We didn't want to confuse the country. MERKLEY: The deficit can be extracted if you do the math—it's $2.2 TRILLION in 2027. Perhaps you didn't include it because you didn't want to draw attention to it. https://t.co/93ChB6tDd6

    15K5.1K158119315K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20268.8x 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

    1.1K48721021139K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20265.4x their median

    Hell NO. https://t.co/7vpA6oWkuB

    90013845714K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20264.2x 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.

    7717810114K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20264.0x 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

    54417294714K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20263.0x 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

    4141256849.0K viewsView on X
  • Sep 6, 20262.8x 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.

    3277616269.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20262.7x 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, 20262.3x 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.

    1837919479.4K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20262.2x their median

    Diesel hit a record price in the U.S.—an average of $5.85 per gallon—thanks to Trump’s illegal war with Iran. When the price of diesel goes up, the price of almost everything, from groceries to clothing, goes up. You and your family are paying for Trump's war of choice.

    2236614668.7K 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

#endtheexception

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 203 interactions against 447K followers, an engagement rate of 0.045%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 20,444 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 5.7K times each, and 3.59% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 32% carry an image or video and 37% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21K interactions, about 102x its own typical post.

What is Senator Jeff Merkley's engagement rate on X?
Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) has an engagement rate of 0.045%, based on the median interactions across 57 original posts from the last 30 days against 447,396 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.045%, Senator Jeff Merkley sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,374 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 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 19:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.8 posts per day across the measured window.

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