Steve Schmidt engagement report
@SteveSchmidtSES - 1.4M followers on X
Measured over 112 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 662 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 112 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% 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 32K times each, and 2.06% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.23% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 112 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 61% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 39x its own typical post.
Measured over 112 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Steve Schmidt's engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 71% 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 0.046%, Steve Schmidt sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 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 | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Thursday 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
- Jun 30, 202639x their median
This is grotesque and un-American. 11 stars represents the Confederate States of America, not the United States of America. https://t.co/YqCMYHQSMp
- Aug 9, 202621x their median
IT’S OFFICIAL: HISTORY MADE. 🇺🇸🎆 THE LARGEST FIREWORKS SHOW EVER. https://t.co/WYpyB0Yv1d
- Aug 18, 202612x their median
“Ossoff is calm, deliberate and steely-eyed. He is filled with conviction, and is unafraid in a vast field of feckless men and women who have chosen to kneel for Trump rather than stand for us.” https://t.co/zqFkp54Jj1 https://t.co/SVu3vxCKjR
- Aug 4, 202612x their median
“With Donald Trump’s constant bashing of our great neighbor to the north — not to mention the impacts of his outrageous policies on our most important ally — what better way to support our friends than traveling to one of the most spectacular destinations in North America?” https://t.co/cwFTZLtKYS
- Aug 22, 20269.2x their median
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada is the smartest, most effective, and by far the most capable leader of any democracy anywhere in the world not named Zelensky. Subscribe to The Warning at https://t.co/VHU3hfiRf7. https://t.co/MHuJH7dx4V https://t.co/v0s5FLDVg5
- Aug 16, 20268.3x their median
Pete Hegseth is a drunk buffoon. https://t.co/AcO7VYw2vr
- Aug 24, 20267.4x their median
Jared Kushner is a shadow Secretary of State who must answer for his corruption. https://t.co/mtxPqB4sOl
- Aug 22, 20267.1x their median
I stand with Canada because I am an American patriot. You should too. Subscribe to The Warning at https://t.co/VHU3hfiRf7. https://t.co/x1JycJxQou
- Aug 29, 20265.8x their median
I believe there will be record Democratic turnout in the midterms and unprecedented turnout by Black and Hispanic voters. I believe the MAGA coalition will both fracture and disengage. Turnout for the good guys will surge and collapse for the MAGAs. https://t.co/710659sIt4 https://t.co/QMDSRzmwKC
- Aug 30, 20265.8x their median
Americans overwhelmingly retain affection for Canada. They oppose his tariffs by large margins. They have shown little appetite for annexation. This isn’t America against Canada. It is Trump against Canada with much of America standing with Canada. https://t.co/iaPlSrF1yR https://t.co/0Y0A5kNYS2
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 662 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.046%. Measured over 112 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% 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 32K times each, and 2.06% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.23% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 112 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 61% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 39x its own typical post.
- What is Steve Schmidt's engagement rate on X?
- Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) has an engagement rate of 0.046%, based on the median interactions across 112 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,438,329 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.046%, Steve Schmidt sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,378 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 @SteveSchmidtSES have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 59% 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 @SteveSchmidtSES post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.9 posts per day across the measured window.