Overton engagement report
@overton_news - 272K followers on X
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 587 interactions against 272K followers, an engagement rate of 0.217%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 73% 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 34K times each, and 1.72% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 12.6% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video, 12% are part of a thread and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Overton's engagement rate beats 73% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 58% 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 0.217%, Overton sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,475 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
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 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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 | 93% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 5% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 93% 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.
- 5% 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 809 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 19, 202617x their median
Bill Maher just weighed in on the Macklemore saga and dropped a heavy dose of common sense on the whole thing. Maher put it perfectly: MAHER: “Is anyone looking for anything of this at a concert? I mean, do I really need a lecture on politics of any stripe, right when the molly is kicking in?” This is one of those 80/20 issues. People are sick of going to a concert to hear their favorite music and instead getting preached to about politics by entertainers who have no more expertise on the subject than the people sitting in the crowd. He didn’t stop with Macklemore...Maher also took a few shots at Bruce Springsteen for doing the exact same thing. MAHER: “I don’t want Bruce Springsteen to do it either. Why is he doing this? What’s the point? Because the people who agree with him, agree with him, but there’s a lot of people, I bet, who are Trump voters who like Bruce Springsteen and always have.” “He looks like one of them, he’s a working class guy. Now they have to go to the concert like, okay, I still like the music, but, you know, really? I don’t love you as much, Mr. Boss.” Bang on take from Bill.
- Sep 22, 202611x their median
Scott Jennings does it again. The CNN panel went into a tailspin, scrambling to justify banning President Trump from social media the moment Jennings compared it to Trump restricting the press from the White House. It was immediate mental gymnastics. He nailed the root of their hypocrisy with a single question. JENNINGS: “If you’re mad about reporters being restricted from going to the White House to report, why would you simultaneously have been someone that would have called for Donald Trump to have had his [speech restricted]? That’s when the panel exploded.
- Sep 3, 20269.6x their median
Caroline Sunshine exposed a blatant double standard on CNN. The panel demanded that she answer for Ken Paxton's past. But when Sunshine brought up James Talarico's claim that white men are America's biggest domestic terrorist threat, suddenly past comments no longer mattered. SUNSHINE: "Do you think it's okay that he said that white men are the biggest domestic terrorist threat to this country?" ADAM MOCKLER: "Was this some comment from like 2019 that was kind of cringe?" SUNSHINE: "So people aren't held accountable for their past comments?" ADAM MOCKLER: "Of course I don't agree with that. But James Talarico isn't running on that." There it is. Paxton's history must define him, but Talarico's history is dismissed the moment it becomes inconvenient.
- Sep 19, 20269.1x their median
The look on Bill Maher’s face was priceless. He literally couldn’t tell if Jessica Tarlov was joking or not. Maher did a double take after Tarlov claimed, with a straight face, that Democrats are “less crazy.” He initially laughed because he thought she was being sarcastic. Then he realized she was actually serious... MAHER: “But I think these recent elections about the Democrats are crazy on social issues, people don’t like that, Trump’s crazy but economy is better. But he doesn’t have the economy anymore.” “I mean...” TARLOV: “And we’re less crazy.” [Silence] MAHER: “Who’s less crazy?” TARLOV: “Democrats!” MAHER: “WHAT??!” TARLOV: “You haven’t noticed?” MAHER: “Have you seen the Democratic…” Maher stopped mid-sentence and began laughing, thinking that Tarlov was cracking a joke. [Audience cracks up] MAHER: “You’re being sarcastic? Oh, I see.” TARLOV: “No…” MAHER: “NO?!” “You think we’re less crazy?” TARLOV: “Maybe not inside, but at least when we go out and give a speech talking about the economy and corruption…” That’s when Maher hit her with a cold dose of reality. MAHER: “They’re communists who think the Islamists are the good guys…” “Are you kidding?! Less crazy?!” TARLOV: “The candidates?” MAHER: “Some of the candidates. You’re not following the Democratic Socialists of America?” Maher had her dead to rights, and she knew it.
- Aug 20, 20267.9x their median
This was a methodical takedown. CNN’s Abby Phillip tried to paint DOGE as a complete failure and then went after Scott Jennings for defending the effort to cut government waste. Jennings didn’t take the bait. He fired back with three brutal reminders that destroyed her narrative on the spot. PHILLIP: “Many people, including you and others at this table, would argue to me that what DOGE was doing was so important…that they were finding government contracts for $30 million.” “And it was chipping away at our national debt. That wasn’t true.” “But now we’re on a spending spree for the president’s vanity projects?” JENNINGS: “I never said they were chipping away at the national debt.” “I’ve consistently said out here and everywhere else that the national debt will only be solved when both parties get serious about entitlement reform. That’s number one.” “Number two, DOGE did important work, which was shine light on things that were patently ridiculous.” “Number three, the federal government is smaller today than it has been since the 1960s and as a portion of GDP it’s smaller, probably since the turn of the last century.” “The $40 trillion debt is a bipartisan disgrace.” “But Dan is exactly right to connect it to the helipad, which is being paid for by Sikorsky, not by tax dollars, is patently ridiculous.”
- Sep 17, 20267.8x their median
The Treasury Secretary is a good man. The crew on Squawk Box took a moment to read a letter Scott Bessent wrote to one of their retiring finance anchors, Rick Santelli. Bessent essentially offered Santelli a job at Treasury if he finds himself bored during retirement. Lol. “If you find yourself missing early mornings, Treasury yields, Fed debates and the occasional spirited argument, we may be able to find a desk at Treasury.” Santelli sat on the sidelines with a huge smile on his face, clearly humbled by the honor of receiving a letter from the Treasury Secretary himself. Then Santelli cracked everyone up when he told the panel Bessent’s letter will go on his wall next to one from Karl Rove that simply said: “You magnificent bastard!” Santelli was great at what he did, and he will be missed.
- Sep 2, 20265.6x their median
Bill O'Reilly issued a dire warning for Donald Trump. If Democrats win both chambers of Congress, presidency will effectively be over, done, finished. O'REILLY: "If the Democrats win the Senate and the House, it's over for President Trump." "They'll impeach him, they'll sue him, every two minutes will be something else and nothing will ever get passed." "So, there are going to be two years of 'Let's get Trump.'" The Republicans must hold at least one chamber or Trump's entire legacy could be destroyed. These midterms are not just about who controls Congress. They will decide whether Trump spends his final two years governing or fighting for survival. Republicans needs to get their heads in the game and finally realize what time it is.
- Sep 3, 20265.3x their median
This was a very revealing answer from Abdul El-Sayed. Stephen A. Smith just asked him whether Hasan Piker could say anything that would make El-Sayed publicly disavow him. He basically said no because he wants access to Piker's audience. EL-SAYED: "There are three million people who listen to Hasan." "I want to offer them a pathway into an electoral movement." STEPHEN A: "So you're not thinking about him. You're thinking about the three million people that support him, and you're trying to get those votes. That's what you're saying." EL-SAYED: "Exactly." "I'm not here to talk to you. I'm here to talk to the people you're talking to." There it is. El-Sayed will not cut Hasan loose, despite saying things like America deserved 9/11, because he wants access to his audience and their votes. At least he finally said it out loud.
- Sep 1, 20264.8x their median
Dalilah Coleman's father just UNLOADED on Democrats for pretending to care about his daughter while refusing to fight the policies that put her in danger. Dalilah was five years old when an illegal immigrant driving an 18-wheeler slammed into her family's stopped vehicle at roughly 60 mph, leaving her permanently disabled. MARCUS COLEMAN: "I reject your guys' sympathy. To be honest with you, there's no way you guys are sorry." "Not one of you guys has ever called me. Not one of you guys has ever reached out to me. Not one of you guys has ever seen me in the hallways and said, 'Hey, sorry about your daughter.'" "You guys do it right here while you guys are grandstanding on top of your soapbox. This is the only time you guys care." Coleman then defended legal immigration and explained how sanctuary policies make ICE operations more difficult and dangerous. COLEMAN: "There is a pathway. It's not jump the fence and apply. That's not the way it goes. There's a process to get it done." "My daughter doesn't deserve this. She didn't ask for any of this." "It is your guys' fault. I hold each and every one of you responsible for it, and I always will."
- Sep 4, 20264.1x their median
The CNN panel walked right into this one. Caroline Sunshine was asked what she is trying to solve by passing nationwide voter ID, and watch how the panel melts down when she gives her answer. ABBY PHILLIP: "What is the actual problem that you're trying to solve?" CAROLINE SUNSHINE: "The problem I'm trying to solve for is the 2020 pandemic has ended. It has been over for several years." "You want to go back to normal. This is what going back to normal looks like." JOSH ROGIN: "Either you want to make it easier to vote, or you want to make it harder to vote. I'm for making it easier to vote." "There are countries in this world where you can vote online. It's perfectly safe." SUNSHINE: "Then you should want to have the SAVE America Act pass." ROGIN: "That has all sorts of other weird stuff in it that I'm really against." Of course he couldn't actually name on thing in it that he disagrees with. HAL LAMBERT: "Almost every country in the world has voter ID." Democrats and their media allies are doing everything they can to oppose voter ID.
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 587 interactions against 272K followers, an engagement rate of 0.217%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 73% 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 34K times each, and 1.72% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 12.6% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video, 12% are part of a thread and 5% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 10K interactions, about 17x its own typical post.
- What is Overton's engagement rate on X?
- Overton (@overton_news) has an engagement rate of 0.217%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 271,908 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.217%, Overton sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,475 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 @overton_news have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 73% 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 @overton_news post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.1 posts per day across the measured window.