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Barstool Chicago engagement report

@barstoolchicago - 268K followers on X

Measured over 94 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.111%
of 268K followers
Per impression
2.06%
14K views on a typical post
Reach
5.40%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
297
interactions (median)
Saved
0.014%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.33/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 297 interactions against 268K followers, an engagement rate of 0.111%. Measured over 94 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% of 20,183 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 14K times each, and 2.06% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.39% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 94 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.0K interactions, about 20x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mountaindew_partner, #campbarstool, #ad.

Measured over 94 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #mountaindew_partner, #campbarstool, #ad.

Compared with accounts its own size

Barstool Chicago's engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 64% 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 0.111%, Barstool Chicago sits above the 25th percentile of the 202,076 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.142%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.142%
p750.672%
p902.54%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 202,076 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,928 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 percentile0.672%
90th percentile2.54%
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 18:00 UTC, and Sunday 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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 18:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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 video99% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link2% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 99% 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.
  • 2% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 86 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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

  • Sep 21, 202620x their median

    CALEB WILLIAMS AVOIDS MAJOR INJURY SUPER BOWL BACK ON https://t.co/SmuuqTyY5T

    5.4K4902411128K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 202618x their median

    Watching the Bears offense vs watching the Bears defense https://t.co/v0CVLJWeI1

    4.8K3782822101K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 202617x their median

    IT’S GAMEDAY CHICAGO. GOOD. BETTER. BEST. https://t.co/Gv3bVn1sFJ

    4.6K56063488K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 202613x their median

    We’ve got our first Good Better Best of 2026 https://t.co/aMhrpyjds5

    3.6K26791962K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 20269.1x their median

    Please be okay 18. https://t.co/dQ8Kt8gMJV

    2.5K154341459K viewsView on X
  • Sep 4, 20268.3x their median

    Waiting for your boy to finish his intramural softball game so you can all go get beers https://t.co/sN9l9Dnku4

    2.4K572163K viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 20268.3x their median

    Chicago, Illinois right now if Sam Roush caught that ball https://t.co/RVEXypD55q

    2.4K635041K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20267.3x their median

    So everybody calls Tristan Peters a former Savanah Banana but he actually played for them when they were just a normal college summer team. He never did any dancing or backflips he’s just a legitimate ballplayer and he’s bringing the Sox back to the playoffs https://t.co/NriTD88GLK

    2.1K8213894K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20266.1x their median

    Don’t let the Cubs lighting up Milwaukee for 17 runs distract you from the fact that Green Bay Sucks https://t.co/HNVzd2onM1

    1.7K10217652K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20264.7x their median

    Analytics. https://t.co/LtrEG8gJnf

    1.3K374519K 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

#mountaindew_partner#campbarstool#ad#chevy#dkpartner

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 297 interactions against 268K followers, an engagement rate of 0.111%. Measured over 94 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% of 20,183 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 14K times each, and 2.06% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.39% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 94 posts sampled, 99% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.0K interactions, about 20x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #mountaindew_partner, #campbarstool, #ad.

What is Barstool Chicago's engagement rate on X?
Barstool Chicago (@barstoolchicago) has an engagement rate of 0.111%, based on the median interactions across 94 original posts from the last 30 days against 267,832 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.111%, Barstool Chicago sits above the 25th percentile of the 202,076 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 @barstoolchicago have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 @barstoolchicago post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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