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Ben Carlson engagement report

@awealthofcs - 374K followers on X

Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.06%
of 374K followers
Per impression
0.834%
27K views on a typical post
Reach
7.22%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
225
interactions (median)
Saved
0.117%
32 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2/day
active 67% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 225 interactions against 374K followers, an engagement rate of 0.06%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% 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 27K times each, and 0.834% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 54% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 10x its own typical post.

Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #investing.

Compared with accounts its own size

Ben Carlson's engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,829 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 38% 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 0.06%, Ben Carlson sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,071 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99158.3%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,071 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 105,527 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile158.3%

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 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 15:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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%71K
10:00 UTC-2%73K
11:00 UTC-3%80K
12:00 UTC-2%88K
13:00 UTC-2%96K
14:00 UTC-4%99K
15:00 UTC-2%103K
16:00 UTC-3%100K
17:00 UTC-2%92K
18:00 UTC-1%86K
19:00 UTC-2%81K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-1%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%234K
Monday0%294K
Tuesday-3%288K
Wednesday-1%253K
Thursday-2%247K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 14, 202610x 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, 20267.7x 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, 20267.5x 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

    1.2K4842547247K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20267.1x 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

    1.4K1297630139K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20263.1x their median

    The past 10 calendar year returns for the S&P 500: 2017 +22% 2018 -4% 2019 +31% 2020 +18% 2021 +28% 2022 -18% 2023 +26% 2024 +25% 2025 +18% 2026 +14% (so far) Pretty good run

    6113043589K viewsView on X
  • May 12, 20262.9x their median

    It's publication day for my new book! Risk & Reward is now available Tons of my favorite charts, stories and anecdotes I read the audio version of the book myself I had a lot of fun writing this I think it's the best thing I've ever written https://t.co/bzoyHrepPb

    536396512138K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.3x their median

    In 1870 the cost of food, rent and clothing took 91 cents of every dollar earned The average American owned 1.5 shirts No one really had insurance, no Social Security, no banking regulations If you failed you lost everything Getting ahead has never been easy But getting ahead is easier today than it was in the past https://t.co/jvhKpXwCbf

    40748501151K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20261.9x their median

    I quoted Dolly Parton in the intro to my new book My kids saw a beautiful rainbow just last weekend and I said this line to them Loved her positive attitude towards life RIP to a legend https://t.co/EKPWPKcqzJ

    406166126K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 2026

    I kinda hated S1 of Tires It just didn’t work and wasn’t very good Gave S2 a try and thought it was very funny Just finished S3 and I absolutely loved it Funny, creative & weird The season finale is one of the best TV episodes I’ve watched in a while Bravo Shane Gillis https://t.co/2jNFC9Stqi

    273229168K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 2026

    Every hedge fund manager & macro tourist wants to short bonds right now The reasons are obvious: high government debt, large deficits, inflation, etc Bonds are the most hated asset class in the world So what's the case for owning fixed income? https://t.co/33ZHGuua6P https://t.co/f1IK2lf0u8

    2211949761K 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 225 interactions against 374K followers, an engagement rate of 0.06%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% 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 27K times each, and 0.834% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 54% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 10x its own typical post.

What is Ben Carlson's engagement rate on X?
Ben Carlson (@awealthofcs) has an engagement rate of 0.06%, based on the median interactions across 24 original posts from the last 30 days against 373,623 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.06%, Ben Carlson sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,071 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 44% 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 @awealthofcs post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.

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