WSJ Business News engagement report
@WSJbusiness - 1.8M followers on X
Measured over 220 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 4 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 220 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,791 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 7.9K times each, and 0.051% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.448% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 220 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 49 interactions, about 12x its own typical post.
Measured over 220 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
WSJ Business News's engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 3% 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 under 0.001%, WSJ Business News sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
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 11:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 18, 202612x their median
Mark Walter built a financial empire that included the L.A. Dodgers, the L.A. Lakers and an $85 million beach mansion in Malibu. U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether he played by the rules. https://t.co/fLRDUWTugn
- Aug 16, 202612x their median
Prosecutors Focus on Four Businesses Tied to Dodgers Owner Mark Walter https://t.co/9jAqP2LX3o
- Aug 28, 20269.5x their median
The Trump administration is in advanced talks with Venezuela for the U.S. to take a direct stake in more than a dozen oil fields that house nearly one-third of the country’s massive energy reserves https://t.co/UsMs06FtnU
- Aug 27, 20269.5x their median
Eric Trump takes a 6% stake in a drone-defense company seeking to expand its business with the U.S. government https://t.co/2f7qh4oZG1
- Aug 25, 20269.5x their median
Hedge-fund investor Stanley Druckenmiller stunned Wall Street with an opinion piece slamming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, then raised eyebrows by confirming he wrote the article with AI’s help https://t.co/It6sWqDMOP
- Aug 30, 20268.8x their median
Inside Trump’s plan to give the Pentagon a stake in Venezuela’s oil riches https://t.co/CvnhTa7968
- Aug 24, 20268.5x their median
SoftBank Plans Record Retail Bond Issuance Amid AI Push https://t.co/M8MbJjbAkZ
- Aug 23, 20268.0x their median
Amazon’s Zoox is the first robotaxi to charge for rides in an autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel, dashboard or pedals https://t.co/JLsDwEwGti
- Aug 25, 20266.3x their median
California’s attorney general accused Paramount of focusing on “the court of public opinion instead of the court of law” as it tries to preserve its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery https://t.co/IJkZ03uidl
- Aug 17, 20266.3x their median
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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 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 220 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,791 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 7.9K times each, and 0.051% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.448% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 220 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 49 interactions, about 12x its own typical post.
- What is WSJ Business News's engagement rate on X?
- WSJ Business News (@WSJbusiness) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 220 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,767,513 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, WSJ Business News sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,759 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 @WSJbusiness have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @WSJbusiness post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 7.33 posts per day across the measured window.