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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 11, 202630x their median
A new documentary lets us Tagalong during the cutthroat cookie season https://t.co/gSbQCjHz5w
- Aug 26, 20263.1x their median
Claire Saffitz’s cardamom- and cider-spiked apple pie will rival any bakery version. https://t.co/9cnPGs3pCK
- 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
- Aug 20, 20262.4x their median
This 5-minute dip is creamy, crunchy, and made for chips. https://t.co/Ww8HML38yR
- Aug 11, 20262.4x their median
We tasted 17 jars of pasta sauce. These are the ones we’d recommend. https://t.co/5cDJBkGsoo
- Aug 7, 20262.4x their median
Bright lemon juice, warming bourbon, and simple syrup combine for this easy, refreshing classic. https://t.co/WPROufL26x
- 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
- 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
- Aug 22, 20262.1x their median
Like saucy chicken stroganoff, miso chicken soup with squash, and cranberry chicken stir-fry. https://t.co/rQPCfCnjQu
- Aug 19, 20262.1x their median
A feel-good, even-easier spin on stuffed shells. https://t.co/veNol83chJ
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.