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Catholic Answers engagement report

@catholiccom - 183K followers on X

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.211%
of 183K followers
Per impression
4.87%
7.9K views on a typical post
Reach
4.33%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
387
interactions (median)
Saved
0.416%
33 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.03/day
active 70% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 387 interactions against 183K followers, an engagement rate of 0.211%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 72% 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 7.9K times each, and 4.87% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 35% are part of a thread and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.2K interactions, about 19x its own typical post.

Measured over 23 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Catholic Answers's engagement rate beats 72% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 86% 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 0.211%, Catholic Answers sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,048 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,048 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 18:00 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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video78% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link22% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 78% 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.
  • 22% 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 368 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.

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

  • Aug 19, 202619x their median

    This is dark, macabre, and sick. This is not of Christ. https://t.co/jz4doHjKAP

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  • Aug 20, 202617x their median

    So whose skull is that, that they have kept for ages and they adore it like that?? Isn’t this Idolatry that the Bible condemns?? The whole catholic community rotates on idolatry! https://t.co/9EKSlLZ5fU

    4.6K9967951562.0M viewsView on X
  • Sep 25, 20267.0x their median

    All the times Bl. Fulton Sheen predicted the future of America👇 “There is a dominant minority that makes a lot of noise and that uses violence to enforce its will upon others…They only know what they’re against. They do not know what they are for.” https://t.co/62CUDI6BC6

    2.0K592343828K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20266.8x their median

    In 1962, Padre Pio received a letter from a bishop asking him to pray for a special intention: a mother of four daughters, "now gravely ill with cancer and in danger of losing her life", who had survived five years in a Nazi concentration camp. The letter asked him to pray "that God, through the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin, may show His mercy to herself and her family." After reading it, Padre Pio said to his companion, "Angelino, he can't be refused!" and assured the bishop that he would pray fervently. The woman, Wanda Półtawska, was scheduled for an operation. It never happened. On the day she showed up, there was no tumor. She hadn't prayed for her health. Only later did she learn that Padre Pio had prayed for her. God is good.

    2.4K20822626K viewsView on X
  • Oct 5, 20266.1x their median

    The most important message of the 20th century didn't come from MLK, Einstein, JFK, Gandhi, or any pope. It came from a simple Polish nun, who heard it from Jesus. "Today I am sending you with my mercy to the people of the whole world. I do not want to punish aching mankind, but I desire to heal it, pressing it to my Merciful Heart."

    2.1K258231225K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 20263.1x their median

    Announcing our newest full-time apologist: Brayden Cook! Brayden is a convert to Catholicism from Southern Baptist, and hosts the YouTube channel The Catechumen (which will continue under our banner). We're excited to have him on board and be part of our mission: to explain and defend the Catholic faith to all. Please keep Brayden and all of us in your prayers!

    1.1K48731238K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 20263.0x their median

    The devil can appear as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14), yet he can be quickly found out by his refusal to acknowledge Jesus. St. Padre Pio used this divine method when Satan appeared to him disguised as his priest confessor, and the saint was suspicious of his true identity. “Say, ‘Praise Jesus!’” Pio exclaimed. The demon refused and vanished. Similarly, as Fulton Sheen notes, the devil cannot mimic the redemptive wounds Jesus received on the cross: "In an old legend, it is said that Satan appeared to a saint and said, 'I am the Christ.' The saint confounded him by asking, 'Where are the marks of nails?' Satan may appear in many disguises like Christ, and at the end of the world will appear as a benefactor and philanthropist—but Satan never has and never well will appear with scars."

    1.1K10113225K viewsView on X
  • Sep 23, 20262.7x their median

    Five life-changing pieces of advice from St. Padre Pio: 🧵 “Console yourself, I repeat, that as long as you are afraid that you do not love God, and as long as you fear to offend him, you already love him and no longer offend him.” https://t.co/mC7NQuPB5F

    934883224K viewsView on X
  • Oct 1, 20262.5x their median

    St. Thérèse of Lisieux prayed so fervently for the conversion of a triple murderer that he repented just minutes before his death. “The day after his execution I hastily opened the paper… and what did I see? Tears betrayed my emotion; I was obliged to run out of the room. Pranzini had mounted the scaffold without confessing or receiving absolution, and … turned round, seized the crucifix which the priest was offering to him, and kissed Our Lord’s Sacred Wounds three times … I had obtained the sign I asked for, and to me it was especially sweet. Was it not when I saw the Precious Blood flowing from the Wounds of Jesus that the thirst for souls first took possession of me? “My prayer was granted to the letter.”

    8995715416K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20262.2x their median

    "Jesus was a socialist. Change my mind." Trent Horn's answer: https://t.co/ynM6KSmcmq

    7517623329K 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 387 interactions against 183K followers, an engagement rate of 0.211%. Measured over 23 original posts, its engagement rate beats 72% 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 7.9K times each, and 4.87% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 23 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 35% are part of a thread and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.2K interactions, about 19x its own typical post.

What is Catholic Answers's engagement rate on X?
Catholic Answers (@catholiccom) has an engagement rate of 0.211%, based on the median interactions across 23 original posts from the last 30 days against 183,438 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.211%, Catholic Answers sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,048 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 @catholiccom have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 72% 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 @catholiccom post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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