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The Challenge engagement report

@TheChallenge - 365K followers on X

Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.069%
of 365K followers
Per impression
0.657%
38K views on a typical post
Reach
10.4%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
250
interactions (median)
Saved
0.038%
14 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.43/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 250 interactions against 365K followers, an engagement rate of 0.069%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 15,519 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 38K times each, and 0.657% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.1K interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #thechallenge42, #paramountplus.

Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026. Recurring tags: #thechallenge42, #paramountplus.

Compared with accounts its own size

The Challenge's engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 34% 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 0.069%, The Challenge sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,632 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.022% to 0.128%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.128%
p750.604%
p902.32%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 157,632 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 25,982 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.128%
75th percentile0.604%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.1%

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 16:00 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 100% 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.
  • 0% 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 164 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 14, 202613x their median

    We are heartbroken by the loss of Tyler Duckworth, a beloved member of The Real World and The Challenge family. He will be deeply missed. Our thoughts are with Tyler’s family and friends during this incredibly difficult time. https://t.co/rTWpgovDpD

    2.8K251292184K viewsView on X
  • Jul 15, 20267.4x their median

    It’s not personal, it’s THE CHALLENGE 😈 #TheChallenge42: Cutthroat premieres August 5, NOW on @ParamountPlus! πŸ”₯ https://t.co/mOsBzwFlqv

    1.5K2137174192K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20264.6x their median

    IT'S CHALLENGE WEEK πŸ—£οΈ https://t.co/vyLqutjeck

    980122362453K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20262.9x their median

    Let's see who rises to the occasion 😏 #TheChallenge42: CUTTHROAT premieres WEDNESDAY, now on @paramountplus πŸ‘ https://t.co/oMQ1cEtYak

    60279161872K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 20262.5x their median

    Let's the games begin! πŸ‘ 2️⃣ episodes #TheChallenge42: Cutthroat are NOW STREAMING on @paramountplus! πŸ’₯ https://t.co/5yeqE95kWQ

    51767171436K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.0x their median

    A team is only as strong as their captain 🫑 Get ready for the premiere of #TheChallenge42: CUTTHROAT streaming tomorrow on @paramountplus! πŸ’₯ https://t.co/uVPRRGfnp0

    43637131237K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20261.8x their median

    After Sydney's injury in the daily challenge, she had some words for Deb πŸ‘€ Stream #TheChallenge42 on @paramountplus πŸ’₯ https://t.co/Cp8bwt1biO

    355185327106K viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20261.8x their median

    This is a whole different game. This is Cutthroat. πŸ”₯ Stream new episodes of #TheChallenge42: CUTTHROAT every Wednesday on @paramountplus πŸ‘ https://t.co/0eqA4XEloz

    3854319123K viewsView on X
  • Jul 31, 2025

    To be great, these challengers will have to risk it all. 😀 The Challenge: Vets and New Threats airs Wednesdays only on @MTV. πŸ“Ί #TheChallenge41 https://t.co/GOspkdH2c6

    3514526824K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20261.7x their median

    CHALLENGE TIIIIIMEEEEEEEEE πŸ₯³ Stream an all-new #TheChallenge42 on @paramountplus πŸ”₯ https://t.co/8s6geE4Gmq

    374328320K 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

#thechallenge42#paramountplus

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 250 interactions against 365K followers, an engagement rate of 0.069%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% of 15,519 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 38K times each, and 0.657% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.1K interactions, about 13x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #thechallenge42, #paramountplus.

What is The Challenge's engagement rate on X?
The Challenge (@TheChallenge) has an engagement rate of 0.069%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 365,369 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.069%, The Challenge sits above the 25th percentile of the 157,632 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 @TheChallenge have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (15,519 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 @TheChallenge post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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