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Bon Appétit engagement report

@bonappetit - 4.1M followers on X

Measured over 88 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 4.1M followers
Per impression
0.076%
18K views on a typical post
Reach
0.43%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
14
interactions (median)
Saved
0.022%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.93/day
active 80% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 14 interactions against 4.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 88 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,791 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 18K times each, and 0.076% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.432% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 88 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 417 interactions, about 30x its own typical post.

Measured over 88 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Bon Appétit's engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 6% 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 under 0.001%, Bon Appétit sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 16:00 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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
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%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
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%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 11, 202630x their median

    A new documentary lets us Tagalong during the cutthroat cookie season https://t.co/gSbQCjHz5w

    3178612234K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20263.1x their median

    Claire Saffitz’s cardamom- and cider-spiked apple pie will rival any bakery version. https://t.co/9cnPGs3pCK

    4010229K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20262.7x their median

    The sweet, jammy garlic cloves are only half the story—don’t sleep on the deeply savory oil. https://t.co/8ZbRhSYW1h

    3161021K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20262.4x their median

    This 5-minute dip is creamy, crunchy, and made for chips. https://t.co/Ww8HML38yR

    2770023K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20262.4x their median

    We tasted 17 jars of pasta sauce. These are the ones we’d recommend. https://t.co/5cDJBkGsoo

    3130043K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20262.4x their median

    Bright lemon juice, warming bourbon, and simple syrup combine for this easy, refreshing classic. https://t.co/WPROufL26x

    2391035K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 20262.3x their median

    Boxed cornbread mix becomes its very best self thanks to cheddar cheese, sour cream, and lots of chives. https://t.co/nZSkeFZEgN

    2452123K viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20262.1x their median

    Editor in chief Jamila Robinson reflects on how the Best New Restaurants of 2026 gave us new ways to eat, gather, and see the world. https://t.co/SVQ0HfZYqE

    2351131K viewsView on X
  • Aug 22, 20262.1x their median

    Like saucy chicken stroganoff, miso chicken soup with squash, and cranberry chicken stir-fry. https://t.co/rQPCfCnjQu

    19110017K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20262.1x their median

    A feel-good, even-easier spin on stuffed shells. https://t.co/veNol83chJ

    2513036K 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 14 interactions against 4.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 88 original posts, its engagement rate beats 9% of 3,791 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 18K times each, and 0.076% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.432% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 88 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 417 interactions, about 30x its own typical post.

What is Bon Appétit's engagement rate on X?
Bon Appétit (@bonappetit) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 88 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,122,432 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, Bon Appétit sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @bonappetit have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 9% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @bonappetit post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.93 posts per day across the measured window.

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