Senator Ted Cruz engagement report
@SenTedCruz - 4.2M followers on X
Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 580 interactions against 4.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% of 3,774 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 76K times each, and 0.765% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.81% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 71% carry an image or video and 23% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 30x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #5ago, #protectcollegesportsact.
Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #5ago, #protectcollegesportsact.
Compared with accounts its own size
Senator Ted Cruz's engagement rate beats 51% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 49% 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 0.014%, Senator Ted Cruz 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 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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
- Aug 5, 202630x their median
I asked counterterrorism expert Kyle Shideler whether the Muslim Brotherhood partners with the Democratic Socialists of America. His answer: Yes. I asked whether this “Red-Green Alliance” is united by hostility toward America. His answer: Yes, and by a revolutionary objective of overthrowing the U.S. Constitution.
- Aug 24, 202625x their median
After a Monday evening videoconference of the Presidents and Chancellors of the Southeastern Conference, the Conference is issuing the following statement: https://t.co/kwWxGz5CQ3
- Aug 5, 202618x their median
I held a hearing today in which experts established that the Muslim Brotherhood and DSA communists are united by a shared hatred of America, Israel, Western civilization, capitalism, and democracy, and a revolutionary objective to overthrow the U.S. Constitution. That is why this issue is so critical. The Brotherhood’s American network has spent decades building influence inside our nonprofits, political organizations, universities, courts, and taxpayer-funded programs. Here are my full remarks:
- Aug 5, 202614x their median
NEW: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who called today's Senate hearing on Muslim Brotherhood networks in the U.S., just used his opening statement to blast the Senate Democrats who boycotted the hearing: "You may notice that there are empty chairs on the Democrat side of the dais. The American people should ask themselves, why? Not a single member of the minority decided that a hearing on terrorism was worth their time. It is an embarrassment and a disservice to the thousands of American victims of the Muslim Brotherhood, including, most recently, the dozens of Americans who died on October 7th at the hand of Gaza's Muslim Brotherhood branch, Hamas."
- Aug 20, 202613x their median
Israeli companies are betting big on Texas, investing $3.2 billion and creating more than 4,200 jobs across our state. Now that investment is expanding into AI, cyber, defense, water, and agriculture. Texas gets the jobs, the capital, and the technology. That’s a partnership worth growing.
- Aug 20, 20268.5x their median
NEW: Former Seahawks RB TJ Harden plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal, @PeteNakos reports. Harden played college ball at SMU and UCLA. https://t.co/MWRFMxNYyl
- Aug 12, 202611x their median
Heidi and I are praying for the families of the two Fort Hood soldiers killed today in the Apache helicopter crash near Salado, and for the entire Fort Hood community. We will never forget their service.
- Aug 5, 20269.7x their median
The Muslim Brotherhood and its branches encourage, facilitate, and provide resources for conducting jihadist terrorism across the world. They are committed to overthrowing the United States and the governments of our allies. I have been leading the fight in Congress to secure designations for my entire tenure in the Senate. Unsurprisingly, Democrats are boycotting today’s hearing.
- Aug 14, 20267.8x their median
Texas is where America builds the future. Proud to join @HowardLutnick and Tim Cook in Houston to open Apple’s new Advanced Manufacturing Center, bringing cutting-edge manufacturing, new investment, and thousands of American jobs to the Lone Star State. https://t.co/kWIMJ0LpL3
- Aug 5, 20267.4x their median
Sens. Cruz, Shaheen, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Resolution Supporting Free and Fair Elections in Venezuela https://t.co/glr48Y29pE https://t.co/KlrTnuOj2S
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
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 580 interactions against 4.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% of 3,774 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 76K times each, and 0.765% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.81% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 71% carry an image or video and 23% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 30x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #5ago, #protectcollegesportsact.
- What is Senator Ted Cruz's engagement rate on X?
- Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) has an engagement rate of 0.014%, based on the median interactions across 52 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,180,887 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.014%, Senator Ted Cruz 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 @SenTedCruz have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 51% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @SenTedCruz post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.23 posts per day across the measured window.