Senator Ted Cruz engagement report
@SenTedCruz - 4.2M followers on X
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 660 interactions against 4.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% 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 65K times each, and 1.02% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.55% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
Measured over 30 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Senator Ted Cruz's engagement rate beats 40% 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 48% 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 0.016%, Senator Ted Cruz sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 20:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 80% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 30% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 80% 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.
- 30% 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 380 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Aug 5, 202626x 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.
- Sep 29, 202622x their median
Jack Smith tried to secretly obtain my phone records. AT&T refused because it concluded his demand violated the Constitution. And what did Smith do? He didn’t go to court. He didn’t fight. He didn’t do a damn thing. Why? Because he knew if he went to court, he would lose. https://t.co/wiLk6gtaKw
- Aug 24, 202622x 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
- Sep 29, 202622x their median
“The Protect College Sport Act just passed in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 77-22. This is a really big deal. It will not only save college sports, it will save the colleges themselves.” - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 https://t.co/U98cOLT3z2
- Sep 5, 202619x their median
Pat McAfee nailed it: College sports are in “absolute chaos,” there are no rules anyone can reliably follow, and Congress is now “our only option.” Coach Saban put the absurdity plainly: “Would we ever think that an NFL player could come back and play in college? It’s absolutely crazy.” College sports cannot survive as a courtroom free-for-all. It is time to pass the Protect College Sports Act, send it to President Trump’s desk, and sign it on College GameDay this fall.
- Sep 29, 202617x their median
Jack Smith and I had never met. Yet while investigating Donald Trump, his team wanted to know whom I spoke to, when I spoke to them, and for how long. They subpoenaed records associated with my personal and office phones, and obtained a court order preventing me from knowing about it. For years, Jack Smith was able to ask his questions in secret, without me in the room. Today, the Senate got to ask questions. Unlike Jack Smith, we did so in public. The American people can judge for themselves.
- Aug 5, 202616x 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, 202613x 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, 202611x 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
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 660 interactions against 4.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.016%. Measured over 30 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% 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 65K times each, and 1.02% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.55% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 30 posts sampled, 80% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
- What is Senator Ted Cruz's engagement rate on X?
- Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) has an engagement rate of 0.016%, based on the median interactions across 30 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,165,283 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.016%, Senator Ted Cruz sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,880 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 40% 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 @SenTedCruz post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.13 posts per day across the measured window.