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rolandsmartin engagement report

@rolandsmartin - 709K followers on X

Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 709K followers
Per impression
0.26%
2.9K views on a typical post
Reach
0.41%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
8
interactions (median)
Saved
0.017%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.83/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
00:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 709K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 2.9K times each, and 0.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.407% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 46% carry an image or video and 71% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 57K interactions, about 7132x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #blackstarnetwork, #rolandmartinunfiltered, #secondopinion.

Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026. Recurring tags: #blackstarnetwork, #rolandmartinunfiltered, #secondopinion.

Compared with accounts its own size

rolandsmartin's engagement rate beats 12% 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 19% 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 0.001%, rolandsmartin sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.678%
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 00:00 UTC, and Thursday 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: 00:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 00:00 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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
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 video46% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link71% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 46% 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.
  • 71% 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 166 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% 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 1, 20267132x their median

    Wow. https://t.co/gnyyAS2puf

    51K4.9K3686396.9M viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20263950x their median

    I was curious how many people were in the twin towers when the planes hit: about 17,400. a death toll of ~2800 from the towers now seems absolutely miraculous. this was due to the efforts of FDNY, NYPD, and some extraordinary everyday people.

    30K1.3K176541.1M viewsView on X
  • Aug 23, 20263391x their median

    Sean Grayson, the former Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy convicted of murdering Sonya Massey in her home, has died in prison https://t.co/qQx3MGBsVT

    20K4.3K6571.8K1.9M viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 2026522x their median

    Phillip: You're claiming that certain people on the left are so bad that they should be cast aside. But the president endorsed somebody who is has regularly made islamophobic and xenophobic comments. Trump is on tape praising Laura Loomer… How is that acceptable? https://t.co/zvfhgTEQnv

    3.6K4785920197K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 2026177x their median

    .@Foxworth24 opened today's episode with thoughts on the Protect College Sports Act and what it's really about 👀 "The core of it is about re-establishing the power the NCAA had in the past – that the court system determined was illegal." https://t.co/KJFqa7vXyP

    9873623432134K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 2026174x their median

    Phillip: Do you think that Trump should disown Laura Loomer for any number of reasons? And if so, do you have to then also think that Democrats should disown Hasan Piker? Martin:I think that Democrats should do that, when Donald Trump goes forward and says that he condemns Laura Loomer. Mailman: Loomer is not campaigning with any candidate. Phillip: She campaigned with Trump.

    1.2K13439886K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 2026106x their median

    By 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court allows President Trump's White House ballroom construction to continue. Chief Justice Roberts was in the minority - "That construction is likely unlawful." https://t.co/uXkpDSoKZw

    5401807252487K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 2026101x their median

    Keith Boykin: “This guy is talking about, ‘Let’s just deport more immigrants.’ They said that two years ago. They said that two years ago, and the economy still hasn’t gotten better. I don’t care about your language. We’re not using superintelligence; we’re talking about reality. “You can use all the [rhetoric] you want for your base, Caroline, but the American people—the people paying attention to their gas prices, grocery prices, and beef prices—they don’t care about this nonsense that only plays to Donald Trump’s base. And that’s not enough. That’s not enough to win an election.”

    649104361974K viewsView on X
  • Nov 24, 202583x their median

    I just got a substack post from @JamalSimmons regarding this @washingtonpost article by @dylanewells @sarahellison https://t.co/ruG7xrXC5Z. He asks the question why Wells, Ellison or their editors could do this piece and not mention ONE Black content creator/podcast host/owner.

    2302921348254K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 202669x their median

    BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allows Trump's ballroom construction to continue. The majority found that the National Trust likely lacks standing to sue. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for himself and the Democratic appointees in dissent. More to come at Law Dork: https://t.co/AiwpY5iCFF

    3601254221261K 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.

Recurring topics

#blackstarnetwork#rolandmartinunfiltered#secondopinion#accountability#blackvote

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 709K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 12% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 2.9K times each, and 0.26% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.407% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 46% carry an image or video and 71% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 57K interactions, about 7132x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #blackstarnetwork, #rolandmartinunfiltered, #secondopinion.

What is rolandsmartin's engagement rate on X?
rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 28 original posts from the last 30 days against 708,749 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, rolandsmartin sits below the 10th percentile of the 205,261 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 @rolandsmartin have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 12% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @rolandsmartin post?
Most posts go out around 00:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.83 posts per day across the measured window.

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