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Ben Carlson engagement report

@awealthofcs - 395K followers on X

Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.088%
of 395K followers
Per impression
1.10%
30K views on a typical post
Reach
8.00%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
336
interactions (median)
Saved
0.099%
30 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.67/day
active 97% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 336 interactions against 395K followers, an engagement rate of 0.088%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% of 19,932 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 30K times each, and 1.10% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video and 46% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 41x its own typical post.

Measured over 35 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026. Recurring tag: #investing.

Compared with accounts its own size

Ben Carlson's engagement rate beats 69% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 50% 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 0.088%, Ben Carlson sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,555 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.142%.

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p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.671%
p902.53%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 201,555 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,929 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 percentile0.142%
75th percentile0.671%
90th percentile2.53%
99th percentile82.5%

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 12:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video74% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link46% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 74% 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.
  • 46% 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 227 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Sep 2, 202641x their median

    Hunter S. Thompson refused to come to the studio. The only way Conan could get him on the show was to meet him on a farm in upstate New York. To shoot guns. And drink hard liquor. They set up a full bar in a field. A bartender in a tuxedo handed Hunter a shotgun he’d never fired. Then an M60. They blew apart stuffed animals and a Bill Buckner target while Conan tried to look like this was a normal interview. Hunter howled. Conan looked like he might not make it home. This is still the least talk-show interview ever done on a talk show. Genius making Conan come to him, or just the most dangerous booking in late-night history?

    12K1.1K1591121.3M viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 202613x their median

    Crazy but true stat of the day: From 1800 to 1940 the annual inflation rate was just 0.2% per year Prices were just 28% higher in a 140 year time frame Since 1940 it's 3.7% annually or >2,200% in total https://t.co/J4QeSCkhrY https://t.co/sZCO9c0rDo

    3.4K58219986265K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20268.3x their median

    We now have: 7% mortgage rates 5% bond yields 3.5% inflation A roaring stock bull market A transformational tech innovation boom Good movies Angst among the younger generation This really is the 1990s all over again

    2.5K12119620296K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20266.8x their median

    The S&P 500 is up almost 16% per year in the 2020s This is all the stuff you had to ignore to earn those returns: https://t.co/WCtixUcWFx https://t.co/Jx8lvA5QwR

    1.9K2447038167K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20265.2x their median

    S&P 500 annual returns by decade: 1950s +19.5% 1960s +7.7% 1970s +5.9% 1980s +17.3% 1990s +18.0% 2000s -1.0% 2010s +13.4% 2020s +15.7%

    1.6K93657219K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20265.0x their median

    My most contrarian take right now is I’m not worried about a US government debt crisis We have the biggest economy We have the reserve currency We have the most rich ppl There is no substitute for Treasuries We’ll just keep spending and ppl will complain but no crisis will occur Maybe I’ll be wrong but ppl have been predicting this for over a century and they’ve always been wrong

    1.2K5042447248K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20264.8x their median

    Crazy but true: Since the start of 2025 the tech sector is up ~65% In that time the forward PE ratio has fallen from 29x to 22x https://t.co/kfsmEzlm1J

    1.4K1287630140K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 20263.5x their median

    Good day for salmon fishing on Lake Michigan This was a bull market haul https://t.co/1BGVGfmf7q

    1.1K550245K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20262.9x their median

    https://t.co/8vpFIqIRtd

    8798117328K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20262.9x their median

    So the Fed is probably gonna keep hiking rates Which won't end the war in Iran And probably won't slow down AI hyperscaler spending So consumers get hurt by higher borrowing costs but inflation won't really go lower?

    77427152971K 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.

Recurring topics

#investing

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 336 interactions against 395K followers, an engagement rate of 0.088%. Measured over 35 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% of 19,932 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 30K times each, and 1.10% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 35 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video and 46% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 14K interactions, about 41x its own typical post.

What is Ben Carlson's engagement rate on X?
Ben Carlson (@awealthofcs) has an engagement rate of 0.088%, based on the median interactions across 35 original posts from the last 30 days against 394,876 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.088%, Ben Carlson sits above the 25th percentile of the 201,555 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 @awealthofcs have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 69% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (19,932 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 @awealthofcs post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.67 posts per day across the measured window.

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