Peter Baker engagement report
@peterbakernyt - 901K followers on X
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 361 interactions against 901K followers, an engagement rate of 0.041%. Measured over 45 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 29K times each, and 1.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.19% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20K interactions, about 56x its own typical post.
Measured over 45 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Peter Baker'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 54% 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 0.041%, Peter Baker sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,880 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 12:00 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 93% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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.
- 93% 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 249 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 21, 202656x their median
The decision by the television outlets not to participate in the White House pool today in response to Trump's self-declared "ban on the free press" will leave the most TV-addicted president in our history without major network cameras recording his every utterance and movement.
- Aug 19, 202622x their median
Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates reportedly took an invite-only Stanford course about ruling the world.
- Sep 20, 20268.3x their median
He's stuck in a quagmire war, lost bids to limit mail-in voting and slap his name on the Kennedy Center and failed to pressure the Fed on interest rates. So Trump is trying to change the narrative by cracking down on a favorite foil: the media @KannoYoungs https://t.co/ojT0UhO5Ox
- Sep 6, 20266.7x their median
Trump claims that Michael Cohen "has just fully RECANTED his testimony" against the president, who was convicted of 34 felonies and held liable for bank fraud. Except that he hasn't. Cohen hasn't taken back any of it. https://t.co/f48oZcGyus
- Aug 30, 20265.8x their median
Trump makes clear that he thinks it's the government's role to go after journalists who anger him as he declares that NBC's Kristen Welker "will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment."
- Jan 23, 20254.6x their median
As Trump opens his 2nd term it’s important to understand his 1st. “THE DIVIDER” w/@sbg1 now in paperback or Kindle goes behind the scenes of his first four years in the White House and helps explain what he will do in the next four https://t.co/xVuTRx700C https://t.co/5Jv2DSV1jv
- Sep 22, 20264.1x their median
Still at it: Russia targeting Americans with covert online disinformation to undermine public confidence in the midterm elections, using a familiar playbook to inject chaos into the voting season, per US intelligence. @dnvolz @julianbarnes @stevenleemyers https://t.co/SgFagP9EuQ
- Aug 21, 20264.1x their median
"It’s bonkers that a defense secretary would involve his wife in his sensitive official duties," Hegseth's own former chief spokesman, who left after three months, tells @BumillerNYT for a profile of Jennifer Hegseth and her unusual role at the Pentagon. https://t.co/dIYcjcChgc
- Aug 21, 20263.8x their median
A month ago, the Trump administration claimed to have identified 15,903 noncitizens registered to vote in Nevada. But during a meeting last week, DHS officials said they have identified just 185 so far, per emails and recordings of the meeting. @NYTnickc https://t.co/S197egn275
- Sep 21, 20263.7x their median
Three news outlets, @CNN @MSNOWNews @politico, are suing to reverse Trump's self-declared "ban on the free press" at the White House. No other TV network agreed to take CNN's place in the pool today which means Trump will head to the UN without a major network covering him.
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 361 interactions against 901K followers, an engagement rate of 0.041%. Measured over 45 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 29K times each, and 1.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.19% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 45 posts sampled, 93% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 20K interactions, about 56x its own typical post.
- What is Peter Baker's engagement rate on X?
- Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) has an engagement rate of 0.041%, based on the median interactions across 45 original posts from the last 30 days against 900,652 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.041%, Peter Baker sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,880 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 @peterbakernyt 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 @peterbakernyt post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3 posts per day across the measured window.