Colin Cowherd engagement report
@colincowherd - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 92 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 606 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.038%. Measured over 92 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% 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 79K times each, and 0.765% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.04% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 92 posts sampled, 16% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 39K interactions, about 64x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #polymarketpartner, #broncos, #usc.
Measured over 92 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #polymarketpartner, #broncos, #usc.
Compared with accounts its own size
Colin Cowherd's engagement rate beats 55% 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 40% 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 0.038%, Colin Cowherd sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 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 22:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 | 16% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 26% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 16% 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.
- 26% 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 136 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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 29, 202664x their median
Roger Federer played some grass court tennis today in Newport. And did THIS. 📽️ ig lisapphire / Lisa Rokhmina https://t.co/SvSdL0VAYL
- Oct 11, 202624x their median
Sunday thoughts on Colts Owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon https://t.co/mRFLP0JtEl
- Aug 12, 202618x their median
Mike Macdonald doesn't mess around when it comes to protecting his QB. The new episode of Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the @Seahawks is available now on @hbomax https://t.co/zsBfm7RRp8
- Aug 8, 202613x their median
Caitlin Clark gets a T for accidentally bumping into a ref. This league truly believes they get picked on. Nope. That’s not it.
- Aug 9, 202613x their median
Sunday thoughts on Megyn Kelly calling Caitlin Clark a “coward” https://t.co/fS3pd7TNWo
- Oct 22, 202610x their median
The man. https://t.co/Jay6wPs5Gq
- Oct 9, 202610.0x their median
Jerry Jones didn’t go cheap on his stadium, his yacht or this roster. But tonight’s becoming a disaster because Jerry built a discount coaching staff.
- Sep 6, 20268.7x their median
A Big Ten replay worker showed fans that there was 0:01 left on the game clock at the end of the Michigan-Western Michigan game. https://t.co/sBhD6KJuoc
- Aug 11, 20268.1x their median
"I'm going to have the scorching hot take that the Chargers are going to be who the Chargers have been my entire life, which is a better team on paper than they are on the field." @colincowherd and @getnickwright debate Colin's AFC division predictions https://t.co/0jgZZOTWFo
- Oct 23, 20267.3x their median
Caleb is what a number one pick should be. Just different level of talent. That NE defense is really well coached.
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 606 interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.038%. Measured over 92 original posts, its engagement rate beats 55% 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 79K times each, and 0.765% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.04% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 92 posts sampled, 16% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 26% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 39K interactions, about 64x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #polymarketpartner, #broncos, #usc.
- What is Colin Cowherd's engagement rate on X?
- Colin Cowherd (@colincowherd) has an engagement rate of 0.038%, based on the median interactions across 92 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,572,362 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.038%, Colin Cowherd sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 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 @colincowherd have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 55% 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 @colincowherd post?
- Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.53 posts per day across the measured window.