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Fascinating engagement report

@fasc1nate - 3.4M followers on X

Measured over 742 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.004%
of 3.4M followers
Per impression
0.348%
40K views on a typical post
Reach
1.20%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
140
interactions (median)
Saved
0.035%
14 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
24.73/day
active 100% of days
Peak time
02:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 140 interactions against 3.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 742 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 20,444 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 40K times each, and 0.348% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 24.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 742 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.9K interactions, about 28x its own typical post.

Measured over 742 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Fascinating's engagement rate beats 23% 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 24% 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 0.004%, Fascinating sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,491 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,491 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.677%
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 02:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 02:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 02:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video96% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 96% 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.
  • 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 431 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

  • Sep 22, 202628x their median

    Remembering Roger Boisjoly, the engineer who correctly identified a fatal flaw in the Challenger shuttle design months before the disaster, but nobody gave a damn. His exact words to his wife, Darlene: "It's going to blow up" 73 seconds before it did. More rare historical photos: https://t.co/dQjceOPkrz

    3.3K41113917448K viewsView on X
  • Oct 5, 202625x their median

    In 1963, the famous photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby. William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time. In his hands, he was holding his great-great-granddaughter, Cherri Stamps-McCray. The image amazes me because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior. Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113. His great- and great-grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him. It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as faraway and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves. Look at more amazing historical photos: https://t.co/dQjceOPkrz

    3.1K353178101K viewsView on X
  • Oct 16, 202624x their median

    Farrah Fawcett surprises a young fan by crashing his confirmation party in 1979. More photos: https://t.co/vMLA0QM0GW https://t.co/1AJYF7SEQc

    3.1K1377413120K viewsView on X
  • Oct 5, 202621x their median

    Photo taken by a 16-year-old girl who snuck a camera into a Queen concert in 1978. The coolest photos ever taken: https://t.co/vKQ8CmLZ3V https://t.co/7fdDSehvNj

    2.8K1339386K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202619x their median

    Photo taken by a 16-year-old girl who snuck a camera into a Queen concert in 1978. The coolest photos ever taken: https://t.co/vKQ8CmLZ3V https://t.co/YhWkuhfxd9

    2.6K9563103K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 202618x their median

    A McDonald's employee with Down syndrome retires after 32 years of serving smiles. More rare historical photos: https://t.co/W7jIvOHun5 https://t.co/umZTXFRmSd

    2.4K8784105K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202618x their median

    In 1964, 18-year-old Dolly Parton arrived in Nashville with dreams of becoming a country music star. Shortly after arriving, she went to the Wishy Washy Laundromat to do some laundry. Outside, she caught the attention of 21-year-old Carl Dean. Dean called out to her from across the street, and Dolly waved back. He walked over and the two began talking. Dolly later remembered being impressed that Carl looked directly at her face while they spoke instead of staring at her body. For Carl, the attraction was immediate. He later recalled thinking that he was going to marry her. Over the next several days, he repeatedly visited the home where Dolly was staying. On their first real date, he introduced her to his parents. Their relationship continued as Dolly worked to build her music career. When they decided to marry, her record label reportedly urged her to wait because executives worried that marriage could hurt her emerging image. Dolly ignored the advice. On May 30, 1966, Dolly and Carl traveled to Ringgold, Georgia, with Dolly's mother, Avie Lee. They married in a small ceremony with only a handful of people present. Dolly wore a simple white dress rather than an elaborate wedding gown. As Dolly became one of the biggest stars in country music, Carl deliberately remained outside the spotlight. He rarely attended public events and preferred a quiet life away from the entertainment industry. Their marriage lasted nearly 60 years, until Carl's death in 2025. Gorgeous photos of the musical icon: https://t.co/D81JXWUw27

    2.4K12686100K viewsView on X
  • Oct 15, 202615x their median

    Last Call at Cheers, 1993. The coolest old school photos: https://t.co/vKQ8CmLZ3V https://t.co/SpqsVYHErs

    2.0K54153376K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202615x their median

    Dionne Warwick, upset with misogyny in rap lyrics, once set up a meeting with Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight at her home, where she demanded that they call her a “bitch” to her face. Snoop Dogg later said, “I believe we got out-gangstered that day.” Effortlessly cool photos: https://t.co/UP5OjjFjqp

    1.9K14112387K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202614x their median

    Vincent D'Onofrio The coolest old school photos: https://t.co/vKQ8CmLZ3V https://t.co/LAsGIXxHQL

    1.9K7420299K 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 140 interactions against 3.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 742 original posts, its engagement rate beats 23% of 20,444 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 40K times each, and 0.348% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 24.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 742 posts sampled, 96% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.9K interactions, about 28x its own typical post.

What is Fascinating's engagement rate on X?
Fascinating (@fasc1nate) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 742 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,353,666 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.004%, Fascinating sits above the 10th 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 @fasc1nate have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 23% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @fasc1nate post?
Most posts go out around 02:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 24.73 posts per day across the measured window.

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