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Ted Cruz engagement report

@tedcruz - 7.1M followers on X

Measured over 150 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.012%
of 7.1M followers
Per impression
1.30%
67K views on a typical post
Reach
0.95%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
878
interactions (median)
Saved
0.025%
17 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
20.1/day
active 100% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 878 interactions against 7.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 150 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% of 20,444 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 67K times each, and 1.30% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.954% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 20.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 150 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 109K interactions, about 124x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #txsen, #2a, #icymi.

Measured over 150 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #txsen, #2a, #icymi.

Compared with accounts its own size

Ted Cruz's engagement rate beats 37% 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 55% 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 0.012%, Ted Cruz sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,491 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%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,491 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.677%
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 19:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 19:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video92% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link59% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 92% 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.
  • 59% 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 343 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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

  • Oct 17, 2026124x their median

    We are witnessing Islamists right now burning Paris because Europe has committed cultural suicide. We should look to France as foreshadowing for what America faces if we don’t stop this here. We are fighting to save our nation. https://t.co/DYvaM5i7nj

    83K18K7.2K1.1K2.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 202682x their median

    Now, listen to me very carefully! So far, I’ve spoken with: 2 Former NBA players 3 G-League players 3 European players They have all said that if the @WNBA doesn’t change the rules, they’re ready to join the movement and are considering coming out as women and putting their names in the 2027 #WNBA Draft. Hear me out; The @NBA G- League pays players $45,000 a year, while the #WNBA top players earn $1.4 Million. Those “men” could earn an extra $1,355,000 a year by just identifying as women. Rules are rules. #LetFreedomPlay

    60K9.6K1.3K5091.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 202624x their median

    "White women, college: +23 El-Sayed" SNL predicted this back in 2015 https://t.co/XlHzQL4Fb6

    52K5.9K4012015.2M viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 202661x their median

    Marvel has announced a new spy thriller series ‘ZODIAC’. Releasing in 2028. https://t.co/hVzOXlR2Lk

    49K2.5K4581.2K3.2M viewsView on X
  • Oct 8, 202657x their median

    BREAKING: @WillieNelson endorses James Talarico: “I've gotten to know James Talarico. He's a good man, who will be a good senator for the state of Texas. Please vote and vote for James Talarico.“ https://t.co/FD2nYpVrSU

    34K6.0K9.0K7041.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 202656x their median

    I’m the only option to remove this parasite from office. A vote for anyone else is a vote for Fine. https://t.co/Z6XBRLV2co

    41K7.0K6881392.0M viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 202640x their median

    I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line. These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.

    20K1.8K12K1.3K3.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 202639x their median

    Kentucky Derby Convenes Committee To Determine What Is A Horse https://t.co/WAsSMraCGP

    28K4.6K460287655K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 202633x their median

    Meet MI Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s sister This is what she thinks of the U.S. She’s also a professor at @UChicago. Why is @UChicago employing this radical lunatic who wants America to burn? https://t.co/W5dsXK8MHD

    20K7.4K984356978K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 202631x their median

    Don’t trust every poll you see. I won by 9 points…. Get out & vote! https://t.co/oadhAkomDp

    22K3.2K1.5K114336K 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

#txsen#2a#icymi#tx24#verdict

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 878 interactions against 7.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 150 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% of 20,444 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 67K times each, and 1.30% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.954% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 20.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 150 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 109K interactions, about 124x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #txsen, #2a, #icymi.

What is Ted Cruz's engagement rate on X?
Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 150 original posts from the last 30 days against 7,066,395 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.012%, Ted Cruz sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,491 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 @tedcruz have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 37% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @tedcruz post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 20.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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