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Paul Finebaum engagement report

@finebaum - 708K followers on X

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.012%
of 708K followers
Per impression
0.212%
40K views on a typical post
Reach
5.63%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
84
interactions (median)
Saved
0.01%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.4/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 84 interactions against 708K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% of 6,874 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 40K times each, and 0.212% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.62% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.8K interactions, about 46x its own typical post.

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #finebaumfridays.

Compared with accounts its own size

Paul Finebaum's engagement rate beats 34% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 16% 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 0.012%, Paul Finebaum sits above the 10th percentile of the 68,879 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.016%.

p100.002%
p250.016%
p50 (median)0.1%
p750.5%
p902.09%
p99116.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 68,879 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 55,257 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 percentile0.016%
50th percentile0.1%
75th percentile0.5%
90th percentile2.09%
99th percentile116.0%

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 19:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 19:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 100% 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.
  • 0% 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 155 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

  • Jun 10, 202646x their median

    "It's crazy...because it's not murder, it's not beating somebody..." Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire defends his QB Brendan Sorsby, who's under fire for gambling on his own team's football games: https://t.co/nz0OfwP5OC

    1.7K1811.3K6673.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202630x their median

    Dolly Parton was an American Icon and a Tennessee Treasure...and as @bryancurtis points out, she was the extremely rare celebrity who had no enemies: https://t.co/4aRX1El2Pz

    2.4K17320245K viewsView on X
  • May 27, 202619x their median

    Best way to find out what's REALLY going on at SEC Meetings is to have a spy in the room. Thanks @CoachDrinkwitz... & Your Move, @Lane_Kiffin https://t.co/qOie2WP2Ic

    1.0K631612233K viewsView on X
  • May 26, 202613x their median

    "I thought we were gonna solve all the problems on the first day here...I'm the last guest on your show today, and we haven't solved a thing! -Alex Golesh on SEC Spring Meetings in Destin https://t.co/YwEIJ5vvJC

    733236472K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20266.5x their median

    "I had all of them come in and talk to our team about what it looks like to be a champion" @GatorsFB @CoachJonSumrall on why he had several FLA coaches come in and talk to the team. https://t.co/phqoGm3Bpr

    487506671K viewsView on X
  • Jun 30, 20265.0x their median

    Best comeback in sports history?

    104425359302K viewsView on X
  • Jun 3, 20264.6x their median

    Wait...what?? Did we just hear what we thought we heard? @TheLegend120139 https://t.co/ltNAwgSS5w

    29836419105K viewsView on X
  • Jul 21, 20264.4x their median

    There's nothing like the Gamecocks. Listen here as @CoachSBeamer shares his love for the South Carolina fanbase. https://t.co/L9Ql1duV1S

    3232517241K viewsView on X
  • Jun 3, 20264.4x their median

    I stole a former SEC coach’s WiFi to be on @finebaum today. https://t.co/LTOiZZBtBA

    3448122180K viewsView on X
  • May 27, 20264.0x their median

    The Commish looked straight into the camera for this one: https://t.co/0E6pdccBZB

    3001818288K 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.

Recurring topics

#finebaumfridays

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 84 interactions against 708K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 34% of 6,874 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 40K times each, and 0.212% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.62% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.8K interactions, about 46x its own typical post.

What is Paul Finebaum's engagement rate on X?
Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 707,729 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.012%, Paul Finebaum sits above the 10th percentile of the 68,879 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 @finebaum have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 34% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @finebaum post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.4 posts per day across the measured window.

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