Sonic Drive-In engagement report
@sonicdrivein - 383K followers on X
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 26 interactions against 383K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 29% of 20,182 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 7.3K times each, and 0.358% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 59K interactions, about 2549x its own typical post.
Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Sonic Drive-In's engagement rate beats 29% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 24% 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 0.007%, Sonic Drive-In sits above the 10th percentile of the 202,175 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.672% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 Monday 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 | 40% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -8% | -9% to -7% | 41K |
- 40% 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.
- 0% 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 63 characters, which falls in the under 80 characters band. Across the catalog, posts under 80 characters run 8% 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
- Jun 11, 20262549x their median
On today’s episode of, “The European mind cannot comprehend this”….. https://t.co/WzxztuUitt
- Jun 10, 20261145x their median
Just realized all the World Cup tourists are gonna be here for the Fourth of July, I can’t wait to see their reactions
- Jun 14, 2026631x their median
OH WOW this has just changed my entire way of thinking and I won’t ever look back https://t.co/qkvGukhjXv
- Jun 24, 20264.9x their median
💥🇺🇸🦅THE AMERICA $2.50 MENU 💥🇺🇸🦅 Every american classic here is just 10 quarters (plus tax, bc that’s also classic america) https://t.co/bM3GgKiWSf
- Jun 30, 20264.6x their median
shout out to the homegirl Betsy Ross without her this drink wouldn’t exist https://t.co/oNuidmV3YY
- Jun 17, 20264.2x their median
attention europeans: eating a 99¢ corn dog doesn’t automatically make you a US citizen but it gets you pretty close
- Jun 20, 20263.9x their median
attention europeans: things are BIGGER in america https://t.co/RevyASDzrY
- Jun 15, 20263.6x their median
can't wait for europeans to discover america's favorite dog breed https://t.co/ZfSrgHlNvH
- Jul 7, 20262.8x their median
they did surgery on a corn dog https://t.co/CR5zZ68YMp
- Jun 26, 20262.8x their median
what do you think, america? https://t.co/p9x83lg3hW
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 26 interactions against 383K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 29% of 20,182 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 7.3K times each, and 0.358% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.5 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 59K interactions, about 2549x its own typical post.
- What is Sonic Drive-In's engagement rate on X?
- Sonic Drive-In (@sonicdrivein) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 382,806 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, Sonic Drive-In sits above the 10th percentile of the 202,175 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 @sonicdrivein have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 29% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,182 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 @sonicdrivein post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.5 posts per day across the measured window.