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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.5% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 116.0% |
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.
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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jun 30, 20265.0x their median
Best comeback in sports history?
- Jun 3, 20264.6x their median
Wait...what?? Did we just hear what we thought we heard? @TheLegend120139 https://t.co/ltNAwgSS5w
- 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
- Jun 3, 20264.4x their median
I stole a former SEC coach’s WiFi to be on @finebaum today. https://t.co/LTOiZZBtBA
- May 27, 20264.0x their median
The Commish looked straight into the camera for this one: https://t.co/0E6pdccBZB
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 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.