John Bolton engagement report
@AmbJohnBolton - 851K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 552 interactions against 851K followers, an engagement rate of 0.065%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 3,882 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 30K times each, and 1.83% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.55% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 23% carry an image or video and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.9K interactions, about 7.1x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
John Bolton's engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 0.065%, John Bolton sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,459 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.438% |
| 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 13:00 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 87K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 82K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 236K |
| Monday | 0% | 298K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 295K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 255K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 257K |
| Saturday | +3% | 231K |
Best tweets
- Jul 20, 20267.1x their median
Retaliation against Iran is not enough. We must flatten the IRGC. https://t.co/PVDSIvpCkN
- Jul 20, 20265.2x their median
The Revolutionary Guard is calling the shots in Iran. Whatever the civilians are saying means very little when the IRGC is in charge. If we are going to see regime change in Iran, we need to eliminate the IRGC. https://t.co/IyuqRzRGxg
- Jul 21, 20264.8x their median
Someone should tell Mayor Mamdani that mayors don’t run American foreign policy. As a reminder, we aren’t a part of the treaty that set up the International Criminal Court, I took us out of that decades ago. https://t.co/LRYYSHkFxF
- Aug 26, 20264.6x their median
The US raid seizing and removing Maduro was brilliantly successful, but the political strategy was flawed from the start. Maduro's removal changed only the corrupt regime's public face, the Chavista gang itself remained in power. https://t.co/8Zv8jWFbyy
- Aug 10, 20263.7x their median
What we know so far of the Iran-Oman deal is unacceptable. These are conditions of U.S. surrender, not points for negotiation. Such concessions are not only mistaken and deeply harmful for America, but they would be catastrophic for Trump himself. https://t.co/xaMrZQxP4W
- Aug 22, 20263.4x their median
Russia is following the old Soviet playbook, hoping to fracture NATO. Putin happily exploits Trump’s eagerness for friendship, not just dividing the alliance, but engaging in grey-zone warfare to probe its weaknesses. https://t.co/yV6OMVUIqU
- Aug 10, 20263.1x their median
The denial of U.S. or Israeli ships in the Strait of Hormuz is absolutely unacceptable and a nonstarter. Freedom of the seas is paramount to U.S. foreign policy. https://t.co/qP2i57zcLC
- Aug 11, 20262.8x their median
The only long-term basis for peace and security in the Middle East is eliminating Iran’s current regime. Trump has refused to face up to this reality before. There is little hope he will do so now. https://t.co/dpAnKbvsuD
- Aug 10, 20262.7x their median
It’s a mistake to walk away from our fight in Iran. The has U.S. battered the Iranian military complex, it will take them years to rebuild. We cannot reward the Iranians with the political win of hegemony over the Strait of Hormuz just because we don’t know what our goals are. https://t.co/lWMxO9XnpQ
- Aug 26, 20262.5x their median
The US should hold Delcy Rodriguez personally responsible if any harm comes to Maria Machado. Political liberty and economic recovery in Venezuela will come through pressure, not through the beneficence of the Chavista regime. https://t.co/8Zv8jWFbyy
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 552 interactions against 851K followers, an engagement rate of 0.065%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 3,882 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 30K times each, and 1.83% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.55% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 23% carry an image or video and 70% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.9K interactions, about 7.1x its own typical post.
- What is John Bolton's engagement rate on X?
- John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) has an engagement rate of 0.065%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 851,331 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.065%, John Bolton sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,459 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 @AmbJohnBolton have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 @AmbJohnBolton post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.