Thought Catalog engagement report
@ThoughtCatalog - 823K followers on X
Measured over 86 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 823K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 86 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,917 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 4.8K times each, and 0.093% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.587% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 86 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 33% are part of a thread and 37% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.0K interactions, about 510x its own typical post.
Measured over 86 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Thought Catalog's engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 7% 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 0.001%, Thought Catalog sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 17:00 UTC, and Saturday 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 28, 2026510x their median
Cindy Crawford leaves a West Hollywood salon in classic blue-linen-and-denim style at 60. https://t.co/VFEvs4Wuz6
- Aug 30, 2026108x their median
Millie Bobby Brown and husband Jake Bongiovi carry their daughter onto a water taxi in Bellagio, heading to the Mandarin Oriental on their Lake Como vacation. https://t.co/XKVP49LXHh
- Aug 22, 202641x their median
Saoirse Ronan took a break from shooting Sam Mendes' Beatles biopic, where she plays Linda McCartney, to push her baby's stroller and kiss their feet. https://t.co/g3ok3cfRtl
- Aug 28, 202622x their median
Kendall Jenner heads out of a downtown L.A. office with her dog in tow and Beats headphones on. https://t.co/KkPzuKLU6L
- Aug 28, 202620x their median
Paige Paul takes a Soho stroll in vintage Chanel before cheering on husband Tommy Paul at the US Open. https://t.co/nvXgEPH5NR
- Aug 22, 202619x their median
Rihanna checked out of NYC's Four Seasons in a $3,000 pink Miu Miu jacket as A$AP Rocky wrangled their three kids to the car. https://t.co/N06oMVVtJy
- Aug 30, 202617x their median
Tom Cruise promotes Days of Thunder at Daytona, posing with driver Gray Gaulding. https://t.co/I6GRR8yymy
- Aug 30, 202612x their median
Country stars including Jelly Roll gathered at the Opry 100 to honor Dolly Parton in song. https://t.co/3QnxHjl0Tm
- Aug 22, 20267.5x their median
Oh, Jacob Elordi... https://t.co/v7AbaZZlvK
- Aug 29, 20267.3x their median
Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi stepping out for a lakeside dinner at Lake Como. https://t.co/ioHtEarC1s
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 4 interactions against 823K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 86 original posts, its engagement rate beats 7% of 3,917 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 4.8K times each, and 0.093% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.587% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 86 posts sampled, 63% carry an image or video, 33% are part of a thread and 37% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.0K interactions, about 510x its own typical post.
- What is Thought Catalog's engagement rate on X?
- Thought Catalog (@ThoughtCatalog) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 86 original posts from the last 30 days against 823,468 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Thought Catalog sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,856 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 @ThoughtCatalog have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 7% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% for its size 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 @ThoughtCatalog post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.8 posts per day across the measured window.