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Louis Theroux engagement report

@louistheroux - 2.0M followers on X

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.022%
of 2.0M followers
Per impression
0.601%
75K views on a typical post
Reach
3.72%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
451
interactions (median)
Saved
0.064%
48 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.1/day
active 10% of days
Peak time
06:00 UTC
Wednesday

Early reading. We have captured 3 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 451 interactions against 2.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.022%. Posts are seen about 75K times each, and 0.601% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 258K interactions, about 232x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.022%, Louis Theroux sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,491 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,491 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
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 06:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 06:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 06:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 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 807 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 12, 2025232x their median

    “I was hoping we could blame this on immigrants, or at least a minority. Turns out it was one of us unfortunately”

    220K35K1.4K5166.5M viewsView on X
  • May 29, 2025225x their median

    The Settlers, the doc I made for the BBC, is now available to stream in the US on BBC Select. It couldn’t be more timely with the announcement today that the Israeli govt has approved construction of 22 new settlements in the West Bank - which are illegal under international law. https://t.co/MsYeKrQeft

    79K21K9574272.1M viewsView on X
  • Mar 7, 201964x their median

    If you can’t see that Michael Jackson was a paedophile after watching @danreed1000 ‘s film you are being wilfully blind. And if you are campaigning against it you are actively colluding in the silencing of victims.

    55K12K3.2K1.4KView on X
  • May 10, 2025220x their median

    I wrote a piece for the guardian about the reaction to my settlers documentary. https://t.co/KLIHfVkqnG

    23K5.8K4732272.0M viewsView on X
  • Feb 11, 202616x their median

    Louis returns. Beta than ever. LOUIS THEROUX: INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE comes to Netflix 11 March. https://t.co/nH7CQQDic0

    16K7012633792.9M viewsView on X
  • May 16, 2025216x their median

    Last night, Israeli settlers attacked my house with stones, they came at 4 am to throw stones and make fire on my family land, chanting about the death of my brother, and wishing that I will die too or killed. Before that Israeli army came to make sure that I am alone in the house. It is the reality of the Israeli occupation and apartheid.

    8.4K4.5K4385091.3M viewsView on X
  • Feb 25, 202612x their median

    Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere premieres March 11. In his first Netflix feature-length documentary, Louis travels to Miami, New York, and Marbella to meet a network of influencers and content creators at the heart of the Manosphere. https://t.co/qb5vznI1qF

    12K6663105465.3M viewsView on X
  • Oct 21, 202524x their median

    Incoming! Three months on from THAT Glasto performance Bobby Vylan, frontman of MOBO award-winning duo Bob Vylan, is on TLTP to discuss his politics, his music, his life, Chuck D, UK supermarkets, and what he was thinking when he led the chant that launched a thousand headlines. Watch or listen to The Louis Theroux Podcast on Spotify.

    7.0K1.1K2.5K2372.8M viewsView on X
  • Feb 25, 20269.3x their median

    Has Louis met his match? LOUIS THEROUX: INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE comes to Netflix 11 March. https://t.co/V13050xT82

    9.6K3132402302.8M viewsView on X
  • May 13, 2025137x their median

    Sean Penn in the house! Or rather, me in Sean Penn’s house! The Hollywood acting legend and adventurer invited me up to his Malibu hideaway to talk Trump, Zelenskyy, Jack Nicholson, Madonna, punching photographers, jail time, smoking, and much more. It was a big thrill to do, only our second LTP “field interview” and our first in America. Watch or listen on Spotify!

    5.9K6259471141.0M 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 451 interactions against 2.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.022%. Posts are seen about 75K times each, and 0.601% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.72% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 258K interactions, about 232x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Louis Theroux's engagement rate on X?
Louis Theroux (@louistheroux) has an engagement rate of 0.022%, based on the median interactions across 3 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,014,034 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.022%, Louis Theroux sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,491 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 @louistheroux have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @louistheroux post?
Most posts go out around 06:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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