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American Idol engagement report

@AmericanIdol - 1.7M followers on X

Measured over 34 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.002%
of 1.7M followers
Per impression
0.349%
9.6K views on a typical post
Reach
0.57%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
34
interactions (median)
Saved
0.01%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.13/day
active 80% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 34 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,847 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 9.6K times each, and 0.349% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.57% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 34 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 12% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 945 interactions, about 28x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #americanidol, #dwts, #shebangs.

Measured over 34 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #americanidol, #dwts, #shebangs.

Compared with accounts its own size

American Idol's engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,847 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 30% 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 0.002%, American Idol sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,320 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.436%
p902.10%
p99160.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,320 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,750 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.436%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.1%

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 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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%80K
12:00 UTC-2%88K
13:00 UTC-2%97K
14:00 UTC-4%100K
15:00 UTC-2%103K
16:00 UTC-3%100K
17:00 UTC-3%93K
18:00 UTC-2%87K
19:00 UTC-2%82K
20:00 UTC-1%76K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-1%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%235K
Monday0%296K
Tuesday-3%292K
Wednesday-1%254K
Thursday-2%248K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 25, 202628x their median

    A true American and worldwide Idol. We will always love you, Dolly. 🦋🩵 https://t.co/deQOY7Vm1S

    81311612413K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 20266.7x their median

    “American Idol” has been renewed for Season 25. Auditions for the singing competition series will kick off on Aug. 25 with the virtual nationwide search “Idol Across America,” taking place in all 50 states plus Washington, D.C. This first round of auditions will be with “American Idol” producers, who will then pass contestants on to the judge auditions. Video auditions will be accepted for those who cannot attend their state’s specific date. Contestants must be 15 years of age by Feb. 15, 2027. https://t.co/fGHMGG3Ngh

    1605010725K viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 20264.4x their median

    Celebrating the birthday boy! What's your favorite Luke Bryan song? https://t.co/qKUn0vpDJH

    110231716.9K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 20264.4x their median

    AUDITION TIME! 🎤 Register now to sing for an #americanidol producer if you were born between June 2, 1997 - Feb 15, 2012! https://t.co/nyh9TuyWZZ

    59835147K viewsView on X
  • Jul 7, 20263.9x their median

    Two Idols who know how to ROCK! 🤘 https://t.co/rakD9bguf7

    10622308.4K viewsView on X
  • Jul 12, 20263.7x their median

    Carrie does what the boys do, but in heels! #americanidol https://t.co/juQ1eMrI7j

    97216313K viewsView on X
  • Jul 1, 20263.4x their median

    We salute you, Carrie! 👩‍🎓 #americanidol https://t.co/nQo6f6Eiad

    97143112K viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 20263.2x their median

    Happy 50th Birthday @lukebryan!!! https://t.co/Obqu7UXqZh

    8617325.9K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20263.0x their median

    Are you golden ticket worthy? Audition for #americanidol! https://t.co/unpxPflQko

    89131016K viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 20263.0x their median

    Who's that lil munchkin in a cowboy hat? 🤠 #americanidol https://t.co/4bNVS6DE0i

    77185247K 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

#americanidol#dwts#shebangs

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 34 interactions against 1.7M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 34 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,847 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 9.6K times each, and 0.349% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.57% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 34 posts sampled, 97% carry an image or video and 12% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 945 interactions, about 28x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #americanidol, #dwts, #shebangs.

What is American Idol's engagement rate on X?
American Idol (@AmericanIdol) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 34 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,685,972 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, American Idol sits above the 10th percentile of the 37,320 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 @AmericanIdol have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,847 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @AmericanIdol post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.13 posts per day across the measured window.

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