Jim Sciutto engagement report
@jimsciutto - 820K followers on X
Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 331 interactions against 820K followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 56% 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 25K times each, and 1.34% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.01% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 23% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 30K interactions, about 90x its own typical post.
Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Jim Sciutto's engagement rate beats 56% 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 56% 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 0.042%, Jim Sciutto sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 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 23:00 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.
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 | 40% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 23% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 40% 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.
- 23% 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 300 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
- Aug 5, 202690x their median
LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently https://t.co/olgvdNoyZg
- Aug 5, 202680x their median
As of now, 44 people have been reported injured in the massive Russian strike on Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Another 17 people, tragically, were killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. It was a heavy strike – 24 ballistic missiles, 4 Zircon/Oniks missiles, and another 115 drones, a significant number of them jet-powered. The main targets of the attack were warehouse facilities belonging to civilian businesses. There were also strikes on infrastructure and a railway station. These facilities had nothing to do with the war – a brewing company, construction materials warehouses, and civilian logistics facilities. Ballistic missile interceptors could have saved the lives of those killed today. It is very important that our partners understand that delays in supplying them, or an unwillingness to provide anti-ballistic systems, lead directly to such horrific casualties and destruction. Partners who are not yet ready to play a more active role in supplying interceptors can help by implementing new sanctions. A significant share of Russia’s ballistic missile production is still not under sanctions. Even now. New steps are needed – from the G7, the European Union, and everyone who supports the protection of life. Thank you to those who are willing to help in this way.
- Aug 6, 202669x their median
As of now, the number one challenge is Russian strikes. The United States knows exactly what we need and that this is not about something abstract. This is about protecting lives. These are real people, individual lives. Air defense support is needed, and that requires political decisions. In Europe too. In the G7 countries too.
- Sep 8, 202632x their median
PISTORIUS: Today I've decided to deliver urgently needed PAC-2 interceptors, AIM-9 air to air missiles and IRIS-T air defense systems from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine. These missiles are being delivered as we speak and will strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses before winter comes. https://t.co/255W5R8XQV
- Aug 19, 202616x their median
I really am sick of the argument that our allies have been freeloading. Those arguments are fundamentally flawed and, frankly, not very intelligent. 1. Our allies provide forward bases, ports, airspace access, logistics hubs, intelligence, prepositioning, and other infrastructure that dramatically extend the global reach of the U.S. military. U.S. Transportation Command itself describes allies and partners as essential to America's ability to move forces and supplies around the world. Without that network, American power projection would be substantially more difficult and expensive. 2. Our allies came to our defense after 9/11. NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in its history, and allied troops fought alongside Americans in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years. Some allies paid a very substantial price. Denmark, for example, lost 44 soldiers, giving it a military fatality rate per capita roughly comparable to, and slightly higher by some measures than, that of the United States. 3. Our allies buy enormous quantities of American weapons, technology, and military equipment. Those purchases support the U.S. defense-industrial base, sustain production lines, and create economies of scale. Foreign Military Sales orders can be combined with Pentagon procurement specifically to reduce the unit cost of equipment purchased by the U.S. military. 4. Allied countries also contribute industrial capacity, components, munitions, technology, and joint production to increasingly integrated defense supply chains. Companies such as Rheinmetall and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are part of a much broader allied industrial ecosystem; MHI, for example, produces Patriot systems and has participated in U.S.-Japanese missile production and component programs. 5. Most importantly, our allies are force multipliers. A major war with China would become vastly more difficult without Japanese bases, Australian and other regional access, allied logistics, intelligence, naval and air forces, and industrial capacity. Even the Trump administration's 2026 National Defense Strategy says that allied and partner contributions in the Indo-Pacific will be “vital” to deterring and balancing China. Alliances have costs. So does having the world's most capable global military network. Calling allies “freeloaders” while ignoring what the United States receives in return is poor strategic accounting and, ultimately, dumb.
- Sep 24, 202616x their median
EU foreign minister @kajakallas tells me the Trump administration’s invitation to Putin for the G20 is “very hard to hear”‘particularly after the U.S. charged Russian operatives for plotting murder on U.S. soil. “And I can tell you they get orders from President Putin.” https://t.co/p4TVuCybIC
- Sep 10, 202613x their median
Exclusive: Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints https://t.co/XJrdaVoeUc
- Aug 25, 202612x their median
The US refused to join an Aug. 24 appeal by over 50 U.N. members urging Russia to halt its aggression against Ukraine and cease strikes against civilians. https://t.co/yvaK0hhAIc
- Aug 26, 202611x their median
EXCLUSIVE: Days before Gen. Randy George was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in April, he was advised by another officer to drop the investigation into a controversial helicopter flyby at Kid Rock's home. That officer is Gen. Chris LaNeve, who is now vying for the job.
- Aug 20, 20268.7x their median
NEW: North Korea has fired a barrage of ballistic missiles, just hours after dismissing US President Donald Trump’s overture to reopen diplomatic contacts between Pyongyang and Washington. South Korea’s military said on Thursday that its northern adversary had launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles eastward into the sea. https://t.co/kAVXfU7kbg
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 331 interactions against 820K followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 56% 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 25K times each, and 1.34% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.01% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 23% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 30K interactions, about 90x its own typical post.
- What is Jim Sciutto's engagement rate on X?
- Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) has an engagement rate of 0.042%, based on the median interactions across 52 original posts from the last 30 days against 819,811 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.042%, Jim Sciutto sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 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 @jimsciutto have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 56% 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 @jimsciutto post?
- Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.07 posts per day across the measured window.