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Joel Stein engagement report

@thejoelstein - 687K followers on X

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 3, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0%
of 687K followers
Per impression
0.118%
2.5K views on a typical post
Reach
0.37%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
3
interactions (median)
Saved
0%
0 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.1/day
active 7% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Friday

Early reading. We have captured 3 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 687K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Posts are seen about 2.5K times each, and 0.118% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.369% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 209 interactions, about 70x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 3 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 3, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At under 0.001%, Joel Stein sits below the 10th percentile of the 158,501 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.022%.

p100.003%
p250.022%
p50 (median)0.128%
p750.605%
p902.32%
p9983.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 158,501 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 25,963 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 percentile0.003%
25th percentile0.022%
50th percentile0.128%
75th percentile0.605%
90th percentile2.32%
99th percentile83.1%

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 17:00 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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 17:00 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 video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link67% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--8%-9% to -7%41K
  • 0% 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.
  • 67% 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 46 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

  • Sep 29, 202370x their median

    Yes, it's come to this. I just started a weekly column on Substack. It's called The End of My Career and you can subscribe here: https://t.co/8xI4m1oPR0

    3616310022K viewsView on X
  • Jun 24, 202629x their median

    I went to the new @SpringsteenCAM Museum in New Jersey and did not cry. But I did write about it for @RollingStone: https://t.co/QTLas4JA6N

    5430404.7K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 202610x their median

    My review of RFK Jr.'s new YouTube cooking show: https://t.co/143dDj6IZc

    623104.0K viewsView on X
  • Jun 26, 20265.7x their median

    Today's Substack column: I've Done Duolingo for 2,269 Days Straight https://t.co/eyHARSng5g

    412101.8K viewsView on X
  • May 13, 20264.7x their median

    My article for @TandCmag about how Americans have gotten meaner. Not including me. I've gotten much nicer. https://t.co/W7I62GQGBh

    014001.4K viewsView on X
  • May 15, 20264.0x their median

    My newest Substack column: Video Killed The Brain and Stuff Like That https://t.co/u8tMffl903

    210001.1K viewsView on X
  • May 26, 20263.3x their median

    I explore the new trend of Biblical Eating by checking in with a chef who worked at the Vatican. And A.J. Jacobs. https://t.co/b5o92SGhTO

    45011.4K viewsView on X
  • Nov 21, 2025

    An editor – who works at the Wall Street Journal – asked me to write this: https://t.co/5GSc1Lfrwu

    50311.3K viewsView on X
  • Jan 17, 20262.7x their median

    Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, died this week. I had spent a day with him for my book. So I wrote about what I learned from him in tomorrow's New York Times, available yesterday: https://t.co/bel7KiIgl0

    41212.3K viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 20262.3x their median

    Don't Make Me Root for Belgium https://t.co/PyRww6YsWe

    25001.7K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 3 interactions against 687K followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Posts are seen about 2.5K times each, and 0.118% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.369% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 3 posts sampled, 67% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 209 interactions, about 70x its own typical post. Only 3 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Joel Stein's engagement rate on X?
Joel Stein (@thejoelstein) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 3 original posts from the last 30 days against 686,809 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, Joel Stein sits below the 10th percentile of the 158,501 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 @thejoelstein have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @thejoelstein post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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