WSJ Markets engagement report
@WSJmarkets - 1.4M followers on X
Measured over 166 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 9 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 166 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,882 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 13K times each, and 0.067% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.944% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 166 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 102 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 166 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
WSJ Markets's engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 4% 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%, WSJ Markets sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 | 156.3% |
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 00:00 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% | 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 21, 202611x their median
Scott Bessent was schooled by the bond marked in a wild week https://t.co/qZryKlNWhi
- Aug 21, 20269.2x their median
Gold Above $4,600 on Weaker Dollar, Debt Fears https://t.co/b6T998jBst
- Aug 24, 20268.0x their median
Heard on the Street: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s mission to tame the bond market could get help from crypto legislation https://t.co/co8K79xBV0
- Aug 23, 20266.0x their median
A longtime lieutenant of Mark Walter played a key role in striking the complex financial deals in the Dodgers owner’s sprawling business empire that have drawn scrutiny from federal investigators https://t.co/Tvk7CiuSRb
- Aug 19, 20265.7x their median
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shown he’ll do unconventional things to get markets moving his way. His latest maneuver is his most radical yet. https://t.co/joQkZiLqBq
- Aug 30, 20265.1x their median
Ultrawealthy Americans are pouring billions of dollars into a once-quiet corner of the life-insurance industry in a bid to lower their taxes https://t.co/9EjGjXOcu6
- Aug 19, 20264.8x their median
Cantor Fitzgerald plans to give investment funds access to Kalshi’s prediction markets, arranging block trades on everything from weather forecasts to iPhone sales https://t.co/kb4dzux7m1
- Aug 28, 20264.6x their median
The Fed chairman surprised investors Friday by signaling greater concern about inflation than many had anticipated https://t.co/OMFHH89Anr
- Aug 19, 20263.4x their median
Why is Scott Bessent is playing with the Treasury market? The world is going into a new era of capital need, for data centers, the military and reshoring, writes WSJ’s @jmackin2 https://t.co/hl87bet1nc
- Aug 31, 20262.8x their median
U.S. Treasury Yields Fall but 10-Year German Bund Yield Hits 15-Year High https://t.co/xG5DRKAdx5
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 9 interactions against 1.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 166 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,882 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 13K times each, and 0.067% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.944% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 166 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 102 interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is WSJ Markets's engagement rate on X?
- WSJ Markets (@WSJmarkets) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 166 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,429,472 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, WSJ Markets sits below the 10th percentile of the 37,701 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 @WSJmarkets have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 @WSJmarkets post?
- Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.53 posts per day across the measured window.