Ben Shapiro engagement report
@benshapiro - 8.9M followers on X
Measured over 61 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 5.5K interactions against 8.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.062%. Measured over 61 original posts, its engagement rate beats 63% of 20,444 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 296K times each, and 1.85% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.34% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 61 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 103K interactions, about 19x its own typical post.
Measured over 61 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ben Shapiro's engagement rate beats 63% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 65% 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 0.062%, Ben Shapiro sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,583 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 20:00 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.
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 | 25% 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.
- 25% 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 223 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
- Jul 31, 202619x 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, 202618x their median
Enes Kanter GOT INTO IT with a WNBA player and was KICKED OUT the arena 😳 https://t.co/DCBhO8ZPhD
- Sep 24, 202617x their median
I made a map of the 77 countries that participated in a mass walkout at the United Nations before Benjamin Netanyahu's speech. What do you notice? https://t.co/19vIXmH16M
- 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, 202611x their median
reposting hannah’s words because i couldn’t have said it better https://t.co/QLcMZxaomV
- Aug 6, 202610x 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, 20267.3x 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
- Oct 16, 20267.2x their median
Elon’s flying Tesla is the kind of thing that happens only in America. Because free market capitalism is awesome. And it’s no coincidence that all the same people who hate Elon want to destroy it. https://t.co/WA8ZNdjBT3
- Aug 17, 20267.1x 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
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 5.5K interactions against 8.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.062%. Measured over 61 original posts, its engagement rate beats 63% of 20,444 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 296K times each, and 1.85% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.34% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 61 posts sampled, 74% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 103K interactions, about 19x its own typical post.
- What is Ben Shapiro's engagement rate on X?
- Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) has an engagement rate of 0.062%, based on the median interactions across 61 original posts from the last 30 days against 8,863,479 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.062%, Ben Shapiro sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,583 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 63% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @benshapiro post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.57 posts per day across the measured window.