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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

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 823K followers
Per impression
0.093%
4.8K views on a typical post
Reach
0.59%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
4
interactions (median)
Saved
0.021%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.8/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Saturday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99155.6%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,856 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 97,248 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile155.6%

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.

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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Saturday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%238K
Monday0%302K
Tuesday-3%302K
Wednesday-1%257K
Thursday-2%250K
Friday-3%259K
Saturday+3%233K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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

    1.9K744719261K viewsView on X
  • 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

    4001211942K viewsView on X
  • 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

    15640425K viewsView on X
  • 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

    8331017K viewsView on X
  • 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

    7242020K viewsView on X
  • 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

    6881010K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 202617x their median

    Tom Cruise promotes Days of Thunder at Daytona, posing with driver Gray Gaulding. https://t.co/I6GRR8yymy

    5512114.9K viewsView on X
  • 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

    406004.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20267.5x their median

    Oh, Jacob Elordi... https://t.co/v7AbaZZlvK

    273006.5K viewsView on X
  • 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

    2801020K 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.

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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.

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