Ben Shapiro engagement report
@benshapiro - 8.9M followers on X
Measured over 77 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 6.0K interactions against 8.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.067%. Measured over 77 original posts, its engagement rate beats 79% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 509K times each, and 1.17% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.75% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 77 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 42% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 104K interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
Measured over 77 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ben Shapiro's engagement rate beats 79% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 61% 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 0.067%, Ben Shapiro sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 17:00 UTC, and Monday 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 31, 202617x their median
WOW. A student at the Oxford Union tells Tommy Robinson he is lucky they've put security on for him otherwise their Pro-Islam supporters outside would beat him to death This is the Oxford Union, how far it has fallen as an institution when this is the sort of argument made https://t.co/pMpdw4NatT
- Aug 24, 202617x their median
Enes Kanter GOT INTO IT with a WNBA player and was KICKED OUT the arena 😳 https://t.co/DCBhO8ZPhD
- Aug 12, 202614x their median
Since you’re too afraid to debate me, how about you “hold me accountable” on a football field instead. Tackle, no pads like we used to play when we were kids. I’d be happy to show you much I love football.
- Jul 31, 202613x their median
People are finally waking up.
- Aug 24, 20269.7x their median
reposting hannah’s words because i couldn’t have said it better https://t.co/QLcMZxaomV
- Aug 6, 20269.5x their median
The threat of radical Islam is real. Hollywood has refused to tell that story for three decades. Now, we’re saying the thing with the biggest, most audacious, funniest and most kickass film Daily Wire has ever released. Here’s the trailer. https://t.co/qh2KaLu40G
- Aug 6, 20266.8x their median
WNBA star Gabby Williams supports trans women playing in the league: “I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team.” https://t.co/5DKMjXC040
- Aug 17, 20266.5x their median
So, when a racial grifter with obvious mental issues gets appointed to Cambridge University’s faculty, then gets exposed, then resigns, and then kills himself…apparently the fault lies with the people who exposed the grift. Because DEI matters more than the facts to the Left. https://t.co/S7lgo9XbVi
- Jul 30, 20265.2x their median
You know the “teen takeovers” that end in chaos every weekend in DC? Our reporter found herself embedded in one, and learned they’re literally organized by the city. Incredible and daring reporting by @leonasalinas19, who witnessed a shooting. https://t.co/DvdVJxBEu7
- Aug 14, 20263.5x their median
Professor at @UChicago Eman Abdelhadi who’s also Abdul El-Sayed’s sister: “F*** the University of Chicago... but where can I build power? I have access to thousands of people I can organize... This is where I need to build power.” https://t.co/9zJwwQS7bk
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 6.0K interactions against 8.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.067%. Measured over 77 original posts, its engagement rate beats 79% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 509K times each, and 1.17% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.75% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 77 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 42% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 104K interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
- What is Ben Shapiro's engagement rate on X?
- Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) has an engagement rate of 0.067%, based on the median interactions across 77 original posts from the last 30 days against 8,850,771 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.067%, Ben Shapiro sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @benshapiro have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 79% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @benshapiro post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.97 posts per day across the measured window.