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Jocko Willink engagement report

@jockowillink - 977K followers on X

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 12, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.091%
of 977K followers
Per impression
2.85%
31K views on a typical post
Reach
3.20%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
890
interactions (median)
Saved
0.022%
7 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.87/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
11:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 890 interactions against 977K followers, an engagement rate of 0.091%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% 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 31K times each, and 2.85% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 18x its own typical post.

Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 12, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Jocko Willink's engagement rate beats 69% 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 77% 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 0.091%, Jocko Willink sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.679%
p902.56%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,582 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,893 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 percentile0.679%
90th percentile2.56%
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 11:00 UTC, and Sunday 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: 11:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 11:00 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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
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--8%-9% to -7%41K
  • 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 74 characters, which falls in the under 80 characters band. Across the catalog, posts under 80 characters run 8% 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

  • Sep 11, 202618x their median

    NEVER FORGET. https://t.co/LBUPaTNL6L

    15K90119933135K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 202612x their median

    BREAKING: Another person has been sent to the hospital after falling off a cliff at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, a popular spot for illegal cliff jumping https://t.co/MtokEWVUvA

    9.4K6545151971.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20268.6x their median

    Dostoevsky writing to his brother a few hours after nearly being executed by order of Tsar Nicholas I. https://t.co/uL07hDEQVV

    6.7K9472752918K viewsView on X
  • Sep 24, 20267.3x their median

    Ryan Job. Friend. Brother. Son. Comedian. Machinegunner. Frogman. Hero. March 11, 1981 – September 24, 2009. https://t.co/1FiwJ49HNI

    6.1K211105172K viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20266.6x their median

    Okay, hear me out… What do y’all think? Me. @sophaller . The Marine Corps Ball this year…

    4.9K511434110617K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 20265.7x their median

    Seth. Brother. I miss you every day. I wish you were here. You made it so much better. Seth “Stoner” Stone. September 17, 1976 - September 30, 2017 https://t.co/tgkgMSDKoG

    4.8K15287378K viewsView on X
  • Sep 29, 20265.4x their median

    Michael Anthony Monsoor. April 5, 1981 – September 29, 2006. A shining beacon of light in a weary world. Thank you, brother. We will never forget. https://t.co/6X2gxrhUOM

    4.4K2341061055K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20264.3x their median

    Michigan Democratic Senate Primary Arab vs Non-Arab Voters: Non-Arab Voters: 🟡 Haley Stevens: 48.2% 🔵 Abdul El-Sayed: 47.9% Arab Voters: 🔵 Abdul El-Sayed: 94.1% 🟡 Haley Stevens: 5.9% (Per @VoteHub via @ZacharyDonnini) https://t.co/nUKbmTXDyt

    2.9K3763262082.2M viewsView on X
  • Oct 12, 20154.1x their median

    .@jockowillink podcast with @tferriss is the most inspirational and intense one I've ever listened to. You're a man amongst men. RESPECT!

    3.2K33311330View on X
  • Sep 8, 20264.0x their median

    6,209 DAYS September 8, 2009 is the biggest failure of my life. That hasn’t changed. 17 years later, I’ve learned the responsibility is what I do with every day I’ve been given since. Kenefick. Johnson. Layton. Johnson. They gave their tomorrows for our todays. The facts don’t change. The pain doesn’t change….but the purpose does.

    3.1K30610212135K 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 890 interactions against 977K followers, an engagement rate of 0.091%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 69% 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 31K times each, and 2.85% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 18x its own typical post.

What is Jocko Willink's engagement rate on X?
Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) has an engagement rate of 0.091%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 976,908 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.091%, Jocko Willink sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,582 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 @jockowillink have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 69% 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 @jockowillink post?
Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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