Switchfoot engagement report
@switchfoot - 305K followers on X
Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 105 interactions against 305K followers, an engagement rate of 0.034%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 6,874 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 6.7K times each, and 1.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.87 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 231 interactions, about 2.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #flashbackfriday, #forevernowtour, #nationalbeachday.
Measured over 26 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 5, 2026. Recurring tags: #flashbackfriday, #forevernowtour, #nationalbeachday.
Compared with accounts its own size
Switchfoot's engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 59% 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 0.034%, Switchfoot sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,258 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.016% to 0.1%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.016% |
| 50th percentile | 0.1% |
| 75th percentile | 0.499% |
| 90th percentile | 2.09% |
| 99th percentile | 119.6% |
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 16:00 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.
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 | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 8% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 100% 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.
- 8% 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 116 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
- Jul 11, 20262.2x their median
Family photo 📸 (just missing @jfontamillas) https://t.co/QrUFtSznjq
- Aug 21, 20262.2x their median
Take me out to the ballgame⚾ One of our favorite things to do on tour is to visit ballparks. (At this point we’ve been to almost every one!) #flashbackfriday …to last week in Cleveland @MLB https://t.co/TT517amSIA
- Jun 28, 20262.2x their median
The official music video for Beautiful Life is out now at the link in bio This video features clips that our incredible worldwide family sent in. This video and this band would not be the same without y’all 🐦⬛ https://t.co/DPwjg6mdOg
- Aug 15, 20261.8x their median
It’s our favorite bass players birthday - happy birthday @TimForeman! 🎈🎂 https://t.co/xnH2tocgWo
- Jul 5, 20261.7x their median
In January of last year, we went to Nashville to start recording our album, Forever Now, with Mike Elizondo. Recording this album was an incredible journey. Have you listened yet? https://t.co/nlmakPlhU4
- Jul 12, 2026
Getting psyched for the Forever Now Tour with @anberlin, starting Sept 16! Where will we be seeing you?? Tickets at the link in bio! https://t.co/yoOtHuWWb6
- Aug 28, 2026
Wow. So much fun last night - we played our favorite tracks from each of our 13 albums on the FOTF livestream. The full video for “Afterlife” is out now on YouTube at the link in bio. (Spoiler alert: there was an unreleased bridge?)🐦⬛ https://t.co/AqmXer4KiH
- Jul 6, 2026
It’s a beautiful life Ain’t it bitter and sweet https://t.co/MDVZjGXfh1
- Aug 14, 2026
YFWYA music video is live! Link in bio YouForgotWhoYouAre🐦⬛ https://t.co/F28J45jZKF https://t.co/N84OO5p294
- Jul 17, 2026
“maybe only love survives these Natural Causes” - full song now on YouTube (link in bio) 🐦⬛ https://t.co/8UkncYs4qp
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 105 interactions against 305K followers, an engagement rate of 0.034%. Measured over 26 original posts, its engagement rate beats 43% of 6,874 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 6.7K times each, and 1.57% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.87 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 26 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 8% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 231 interactions, about 2.2x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #flashbackfriday, #forevernowtour, #nationalbeachday.
- What is Switchfoot's engagement rate on X?
- Switchfoot (@switchfoot) has an engagement rate of 0.034%, based on the median interactions across 26 original posts from the last 30 days against 304,699 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.034%, Switchfoot sits above the 25th percentile of the 66,258 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 @switchfoot have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 43% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (6,874 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 @switchfoot post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.87 posts per day across the measured window.