Tom Cotton engagement report
@TomCottonAR - 728K followers on X
Measured over 21 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 979 interactions against 728K followers, an engagement rate of 0.135%. Measured over 21 original posts, its engagement rate beats 75% of 3,882 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 24K times each, and 4.10% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.28% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 21 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video and 14% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 27x its own typical post.
Measured over 21 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Tom Cotton's engagement rate beats 75% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 88% 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 0.135%, Tom Cotton sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
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 | 158.1% |
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 15:00 UTC, and Monday 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 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% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Jul 22, 202627x their median
https://t.co/xihxCsrEz4
- Jul 30, 202623x their median
Insane video of Thousands of Morrocan migrants breaching across the border into Ceuta Spain. https://t.co/j6HUCIBsPX
- Jul 27, 202614x their median
Fauci's diary confirms what we have long known: Tony Fauci is a lying fraud who covered up for China.
- Aug 19, 202611x their median
What’s happening in Alaska with the liberal fake Dan Sullivan is a disgrace. Ranked-choice voting is a scam to rig elections for Democrats. It designed to fool voters. And it was absolutely orchestrated by national democrats.
- Aug 4, 202611x their median
Wisconsin Dems are poised to nominate a nut who wants to cancel Thanksgiving. In Michigan, the El Sayed wants defund the ICE. And in New Jersey, a Dem was a character witness for a notorious terrorist. The Democratic Party has been captured by the Marxist left.
- Aug 17, 20266.5x their median
These CBS numbers are deeply alarming. Democrats overwhelmingly support socialism and overwhelmingly oppose capitalism. Socialism results in misery and poverty every time it is tried. We must never allow the socialists to take power. https://t.co/AuIh3TG5MY
- Aug 4, 20266.4x their median
Francesca Hong discusses her struggles with “proximity to whiteness” because her son is biracial https://t.co/sWs1gnBgtE
- Aug 5, 20266.2x their median
Abdul El-Sayed has called to defund ICE. Sayed said he doesn't care about illegal aliens' "documentation status." This type of liberal madness would mean open borders and would make your community less safe. The Democratic party has lost its mind.
- Jul 30, 20265.5x their median
In Jan 2020, I said COVID almost certainly came from China's coronavirus lab. Tony Fauci's diary confirms that he worked with the media to smear me as a conspiracy theorist, lie to the American people, and cover up for China. Fauci is a disgrace and should be prosecuted. https://t.co/vO7uXhUqnc
- Aug 13, 20264.2x their median
The fact that Medicaid was covering "gender surgeries" for children in the first place is outrageous. President Trump is absolutely right to end this harmful practice.
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 979 interactions against 728K followers, an engagement rate of 0.135%. Measured over 21 original posts, its engagement rate beats 75% of 3,882 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 24K times each, and 4.10% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.28% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 21 posts sampled, 38% carry an image or video and 14% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 26K interactions, about 27x its own typical post.
- What is Tom Cotton's engagement rate on X?
- Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) has an engagement rate of 0.135%, based on the median interactions across 21 original posts from the last 30 days against 727,672 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.135%, Tom Cotton sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 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 @TomCottonAR have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 75% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter 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 @TomCottonAR post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.93 posts per day across the measured window.