Gregg Carlstrom engagement report
@glcarlstrom - 128K followers on X
Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 134 interactions against 128K followers, an engagement rate of 0.104%. Measured over 29 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 18K times each, and 0.728% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 14.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 76% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 808 interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #iran, #gulf, #oott.
Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026. Recurring tags: #iran, #gulf, #oott.
Compared with accounts its own size
Gregg Carlstrom's engagement rate beats 55% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 33% 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 0.104%, Gregg Carlstrom sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,152 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 | 0.678% |
| 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 07:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 7% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 76% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 7% 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.
- 76% 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 315 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 16, 20266.0x their median
"A cloud region losing customer data because of an airstrike—I don't think that's ever happened before." https://t.co/hhkzDFU8XL
- Sep 16, 20264.6x their median
The US fired not only 60-70 Patriot interceptors during that attack in Jordan last week, but also "more than a dozen" THAADs: "The expenditure is about what the US has used in a full week at other times in the war." https://t.co/EzieJf51Qf
- Sep 20, 20263.7x their median
"While Trump focuses on oil, Hormuz remains shuttered to other commodities." - container ships down 94% compared to a year ago - cost of shipping a container from China to the UAE increased eightfold - shipments of everything from limestone to fertilizer down by more than half - businesses in the Gulf facing shortages: car dealers, for example, can't bring in new models "What the Americans are doing now is not viable long term... it's only focused on getting oil and gas out, it's not focused on getting cargo and commodities in." https://t.co/c0xb1nwg06
- Sep 23, 20263.2x their median
WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL: REPORTS OF US CONSIDERING DIESEL EXPORT BAN ARE “FAKE NEWS”
- Sep 15, 20262.3x their median
Saudi wants British help in Yemen, MbS is flying to Cairo today presumably to ask Sisi for the same, and perhaps hoping for Turkish support as well Really shortlisting on experience here: it's a coalition of the previously routed https://t.co/sUkLz08WqH
- Sep 14, 20262.0x their median
"The Houthi advance was aided because they were able to intercept the communications of Saudi-backed fighters... militants listened in on calls between their opponents' commanders, giving them insight into their plans. They were also able to speak directly to rival fighters on the ground, urging them to surrender." https://t.co/nqYfmGOSe5
- Sep 28, 20261.9x their median
New: UK counter terror police say they have released the five RAF Fairford suspects on bail Counter Terrorism Policing chief Laurence Taylor says: “To be very clear, this does not mean the investigation is over. They are subject to stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others. They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of enquiry.” “We are considering this from every possible angle,” Taylor said, “including, that this may be activity committed by proxies, or individuals either knowingly or unknowingly, working on behalf of a foreign state.”
- Sep 21, 20261.8x their median
Didn't take long for Saudi to start redirecting oil through Hormuz rather than Yanbu (in fact, it was already underway before the pipeline hit): "A total of 18 tankers, mostly VLCCs carrying 34m barrels of crude, exited Hormuz in the week of September 13. Saudi accounted for half the exports." "Saudi oil moving through Hormuz averaged 2.9m bpd over the past six days, up from just 700,000 bpd in August." https://t.co/BMPX3oY1cC
- Sep 21, 20261.7x their median
The world isn't just short of oil, but oil tankers as well: "Earlier this month, the cost of hiring an oil supertanker to load inside the Persian Gulf and transit the Strait of Hormuz topped $1m a day. That works out to $26 a barrel, or roughly a quarter of the crude's value." https://t.co/RrBaeJeHMo
- Sep 17, 20261.6x their median
Interesting piece on how Iran is struggling to reroute trade via land borders while the American blockade idles its ports: "Hundreds of Iranian truck drivers are currently stuck at Iran's border with Pakistan, unable to send their goods... the same thing is happening at Iran's land borders with Turkey, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan." "In some cases, the overland bottlenecks and diversions now contribute as much as a third of the price for common goods once they reach Tehran... the cost of transporting one container from China to Iran costs $12,000 via land routes compared with $3,000 by sea." https://t.co/WHpEdPqEPY
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 134 interactions against 128K followers, an engagement rate of 0.104%. Measured over 29 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 18K times each, and 0.728% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 14.4% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 76% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 808 interactions, about 6.0x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #iran, #gulf, #oott.
- What is Gregg Carlstrom's engagement rate on X?
- Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) has an engagement rate of 0.104%, based on the median interactions across 29 original posts from the last 30 days against 128,238 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.104%, Gregg Carlstrom sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,152 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 @glcarlstrom 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 @glcarlstrom post?
- Most posts go out around 07:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.1 posts per day across the measured window.