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Athenaeum Book Club engagement report

@athenaeumbc - 369K followers on X

Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.103%
of 369K followers
Per impression
1.05%
36K views on a typical post
Reach
9.86%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
380
interactions (median)
Saved
0.216%
78 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.53/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 380 interactions against 369K followers, an engagement rate of 0.103%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% of 20,444 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 36K times each, and 1.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.82% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video, 83% are part of a thread and 58% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 49x its own typical post.

Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 7, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Athenaeum Book Club's engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 49% 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 0.103%, Athenaeum Book Club sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,956 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 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.

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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video75% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link58% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 75% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 58% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 984 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Aug 7, 202649x their median

    These books will give you a better education than almost any school curriculum in the West today. In our academic system, you can go from Pre-K to PhD without reading a word of Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, or Milton. We set up the Athenaeum Book Club to fight back. If schools and universities won't teach the Great Books, we must form our own reading circles. These are some of the texts we've read together, or will cover soon. Join our reading group to study the great works in dialogue with others. We are just starting The Brothers Karamazov. If you've been on the fence about joining our group, now's the time. You do NOT want to miss this. We're reading Brothers K. over the next 6 weeks. The next discussion is on August 18th. Take out a paid subscription if you'd like to support us and join the discussions directly — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next https://t.co/efQaicNvay See you inside!

    17K1.5K3211305.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202627x their median

    "The mystery of human existence lies not in staying alive, but in finding something to live for." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

    9.1K1.1K4437130K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20266.1x their median

    Have you ever read a BOOK by an author that was so good it made you want to read everything else they've written? https://t.co/UAjFbnmmby

    1.9K1192083293K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20265.8x their median

    You do not need self-help books. You need to read immortal stories. Read them with us: https://t.co/JVEWbm4p0T https://t.co/crGxwKWAVE

    2.0K195301396K viewsView on X
  • Aug 9, 20265.8x their median

    Today is National Book Lovers Day! What are you reading? https://t.co/u7A9ckKpOb

    1.7K1933015566K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20265.2x their median

    St. Augustine argues that without justice, an empire is ultimately no different from a large-scale criminal organization: “Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs themselves but petty kingdoms? A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound together by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy is enlarged by the accession of abandoned men to such a size that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom, which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world, not by the renouncing of aggression but by the attainment of impunity.”

    1.5K409355349K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20265.1x their median

    There’s something I love about the fact that the Western canon is just sitting there waiting for anyone who wants it. You can walk into a used bookstore with twenty bucks and walk out carrying a conversation that started thousands of years ago. https://t.co/dBLQEMSmLk

    1.7K19426740K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20264.3x their median

    I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to the great books. https://t.co/b5bbrjzg0X

    1.5K10744959K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20263.5x their median

    I think people hear “Great Books” and imagine a bunch of dusty old guys writing about things nobody cares about anymore. Then you actually read them and it’s war, love, jealousy, betrayal, ambition, friendship, politics, God, death, revenge. Basically everything people still obsess over.

    1.2K13526530K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.5x their median

    You don't need a book club or a Great Books program to start reading the great books. https://t.co/nVLSmbALuA

    819603943190K 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 380 interactions against 369K followers, an engagement rate of 0.103%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 71% of 20,444 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 36K times each, and 1.05% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.82% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video, 83% are part of a thread and 58% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 49x its own typical post.

What is Athenaeum Book Club's engagement rate on X?
Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) has an engagement rate of 0.103%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 369,301 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.103%, Athenaeum Book Club sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,956 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 @athenaeumbc have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 71% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @athenaeumbc post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.53 posts per day across the measured window.

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