Peter Baker engagement report
@peterbakernyt - 861K followers on X
Measured over 36 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 271 interactions against 861K followers, an engagement rate of 0.032%. Measured over 36 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 3,809 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 30K times each, and 0.911% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.45% 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 57% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 36 posts sampled, 19% carry an image or video and 72% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.8K interactions, about 29x its own typical post.
Measured over 36 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Peter Baker's engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 48% 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 0.032%, Peter Baker sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 19, 202629x their median
Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates reportedly took an invite-only Stanford course about ruling the world.
- Jan 23, 20256.0x 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
- Aug 21, 20265.5x 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, 20265.1x 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
- Aug 26, 20264.6x their median
Hegseth's purge has left the Army essentially rudderless as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap, deadly drones and missiles that have pounded US bases in the Middle East. @GregJaffe @EricSchmittNYT @helenecooper @Adamentous https://t.co/4d4CHRZ40y
- Aug 30, 20263.7x 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."
- Aug 11, 20263.7x their median
There’s a secret class at Stanford, called “How to Rule the World,” where an exclusive inner cohort is taught to “extract value” from people. I used it as the title of my book about deception and avarice in Silicon Valley. Here’s what one alum from the class has been up to: https://t.co/Snxg5yoaI5
- Aug 11, 20263.0x their median
Trump boarded the old Air Force One in Ankara as a ruse but was then secretly taken off the plane in an airport catering cart and brought to a military jet for a clandestine flight out of country after the NATO summit last month. @maggieNYT @EricSchmittNYT https://t.co/DoCIWKUL5v
- Aug 25, 20262.6x their median
"An inflection point"? The age of capitulation that defined Trump’s return to office may be starting to fade as world leaders and domestic institutions, in some cases at least, show less willingness to submit to his will. https://t.co/8QMMKvxQGn
- Aug 22, 20262.3x their median
Trump threatens to sue a liberal think tank for $5 billion over its report questioning his National Guard deployments, his latest effort to use the legal system to punish or intimidate critics who voice facts and opinions he dislikes. @alanfeuer https://t.co/ZVyUVJ8utz
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 271 interactions against 861K followers, an engagement rate of 0.032%. Measured over 36 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 3,809 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 30K times each, and 0.911% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.45% 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 57% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 36 posts sampled, 19% carry an image or video and 72% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.8K interactions, about 29x its own typical post.
- What is Peter Baker's engagement rate on X?
- Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) has an engagement rate of 0.032%, based on the median interactions across 36 original posts from the last 30 days against 861,424 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.032%, Peter Baker sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,852 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 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.