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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

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.067%
of 8.9M followers
Per impression
1.17%
509K views on a typical post
Reach
5.75%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
6.0K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.033%
167 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.97/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Monday

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%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,521 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,166 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 percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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.

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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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
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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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

    84K14K4.5K1.5K13M viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202617x their median

    Enes Kanter GOT INTO IT with a WNBA player and was KICKED OUT the arena 😳 https://t.co/DCBhO8ZPhD

    86K4.4K5.6K4.1K36M viewsView on X
  • 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.

    69K7.2K9.7K1.2K8.7M viewsView on X
  • Jul 31, 202613x their median

    People are finally waking up.

    68K9.5K2.5K2543.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20269.7x their median

    reposting hannah’s words because i couldn’t have said it better https://t.co/QLcMZxaomV

    49K8.5K188821.3M viewsView on X
  • 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

    41K7.4K5.7K2.1K7.2M viewsView on X
  • 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

    31K2.6K4.6K1.9K11M viewsView on X
  • 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

    35K3.4K55660594K viewsView on X
  • 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

    23K6.8K7173062.5M viewsView on X
  • 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

    14K5.1K1.0K434987K 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.

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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.

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