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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.671% |
| 90th percentile | 2.53% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 74% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 46% 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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%
- 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
- 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
- Sep 5, 20263.5x their median
Good day for salmon fishing on Lake Michigan This was a bull market haul https://t.co/1BGVGfmf7q
- Sep 10, 20262.9x their median
https://t.co/8vpFIqIRtd
- 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?
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
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.