Shannon Watts engagement report
@shannonrwatts - 545K followers on X
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 550 interactions against 545K followers, an engagement rate of 0.101%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 3,810 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 1.87% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.41% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 21x its own typical post.
Measured over 12 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026. Recurring tag: #b.
Compared with accounts its own size
Shannon Watts's engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 68% 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 0.101%, Shannon Watts sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,960 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.435%.
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 03:00 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% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 202621x their median
You've never seen corporate Democrats fighting as hard and as on message against Trump as they are against Hasan right now. It's insane.
- Aug 26, 202615x their median
ABDUL BRO🤣🤣! I’m in tears LMAO! https://t.co/Q9YPULu7wd
- Aug 26, 20265.0x their median
New - Senate poll - South Carolina 🔵 Andrews 41% 🔴 Graham 41% Impact #B (🔵) - LV - 8/24 https://t.co/ghxVq7ELS3
- Aug 26, 20263.9x their median
EXCLUSIVE by Jim @DeFede: A state grand jury found $10 million in taxpayer money was “misappropriated” to Hope Florida and ultimately used for political purposes. Read the full story - https://t.co/bOiyLiUWX7
- Aug 26, 2026
If you are a healthy adult over 50, or an immunocompromised adult over 19, GO GET YOUR TWO SHINGLES SHOTS. https://t.co/wn79itq7BM
- Aug 26, 2026
About 440,000 Floridians dropped their ACA plans this year — more than in any other state. Thousands more who kept coverage are struggling to get by, as prices of necessities like groceries and gasoline remain steep, and health insurers project another year of double-digit premium hikes. https://t.co/uQcVs0AxVy
- Aug 26, 2026
Florida, a boom state no more as costs rise, young people leave | Column https://t.co/g6KGVjPX9A
- Aug 26, 2026
Hey Dem men: If your weak male opponents are betas, what are women? Let’s retire that term please.
- Aug 27, 2026
‘She tried to save her family’: 12-year-old who called 911 mourned after her uncle kills eight in Montana mass shooting. https://t.co/YD9uvsUHrO
- Aug 26, 2026
Meta has settled a landmark social media addiction lawsuit brought by dozens of states; they’ll pay $17 billion to the states that sued. https://t.co/WGNx4sHEWn
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
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 550 interactions against 545K followers, an engagement rate of 0.101%. Measured over 12 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 3,810 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 1.87% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.41% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 12 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video and 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 21x its own typical post.
- What is Shannon Watts's engagement rate on X?
- Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) has an engagement rate of 0.101%, based on the median interactions across 12 original posts from the last 30 days against 544,609 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.101%, Shannon Watts sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,960 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 @shannonrwatts have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 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 @shannonrwatts post?
- Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.53 posts per day across the measured window.