Variety engagement report
@Variety - 3.8M followers on X
Measured over 493 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 106 interactions against 3.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 493 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 3,829 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 28K times each, and 0.372% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.757% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 17 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 493 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 68K interactions, about 644x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #daisychainfields, #dollyparton, #justforvariety.
Measured over 493 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #daisychainfields, #dollyparton, #justforvariety.
Compared with accounts its own size
Variety's engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 32% 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 0.003%, Variety sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,037 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 | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.8% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 17, 2026644x their median
Hayden Panettiere, known for her roles on “Heroes” and in “Scream 4” and “Scream 6,” has died at 36. A cause of death was not immediately known. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen,” her rep told ABC. https://t.co/1z1E1hBpSy
- Aug 25, 2026409x their median
Dolly Parton, Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80 https://t.co/rBvsrcs6FY
- Aug 25, 2026250x their median
Dolly Parton, the singer-songwriter-actress whose glittering country music stardom was matched by her pop fame and popular parallel careers in film and TV, died on Aug. 25. She was 80 years old. https://t.co/rBvsrcs6FY https://t.co/fPfFNxFwmh
- Aug 26, 2026164x their median
Jaye P. Morgan, Singer, Actress and Game Show Panelist, Dies at 94 https://t.co/Add5USNo3P
- Aug 17, 2026139x their median
REMEMBERING HAYDEN PANETTIERE ❤️ Known for her roles in “Bring It On,” “Nashville,” “Scream 6” and so much more, Hayden Panettiere has died at 36. A cause of death is not currently known. https://t.co/2pm8xOkJRy https://t.co/TsaqcLClq4
- Aug 21, 2026135x their median
Mark Ruffalo Goes Scorched Earth on Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Calling Out the Ellison Family’s Complicity in Palestinian ‘Genocide’ https://t.co/rESwZUd9C0
- Aug 17, 202696x their median
Hollywood Failed Hayden Panettiere https://t.co/aPQBvavRsV
- Aug 30, 202684x their median
Chappell Roan performs “Pink Pony Club” at #DaisyChainFields festival https://t.co/xhl6T2TqsU
- Aug 18, 202674x their median
Angélique Kidjo cries as she becomes the first Black African artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. https://t.co/qx9ivhNAiT https://t.co/eGjMP0PkyP
- Aug 26, 202671x their median
“Love Island USA” has been renewed for Season 9 on Peacock with Ariana Madix set to return as host following a record-breaking eighth season. https://t.co/ilhKHUt4KK https://t.co/5E7vPBQIGh
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
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 106 interactions against 3.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 493 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 3,829 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 28K times each, and 0.372% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.757% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 17 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 493 posts sampled, 35% carry an image or video and 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 68K interactions, about 644x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #daisychainfields, #dollyparton, #justforvariety.
- What is Variety's engagement rate on X?
- Variety (@Variety) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 493 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,765,332 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Variety sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,037 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 @Variety have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 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 @Variety post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 17.03 posts per day across the measured window.