CNBC engagement report
@CNBC - 6.2M followers on X
Measured over 473 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 6.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 473 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,739 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 30K times each, and 0.114% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.483% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 16.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 473 posts sampled, 16% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 697 interactions, about 21x its own typical post.
Measured over 473 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #cnbcai.
Compared with accounts its own size
CNBC's engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 10% 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 0.001%, CNBC sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 12:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 14, 202621x their median
Nvidia discloses $21 billion stake in SpaceX at end of second quarter https://t.co/LzG2aEApNd
- Aug 18, 202612x their median
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday that maintaining peace was “most important” for the country, but it needs to prepare for the “worst case scenario.” His comments come after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” joint drills with Seoul so as to not “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea. More on CNBC: https://t.co/rdssXjrGDi
- Aug 19, 202611x their median
Unitree Robotics shares rose 542% in early trading Wednesday as the Chinese humanoid robot maker made its stock market debut in Shanghai. The Hangzhou-based robot maker, whose backflipping and dancing machines have drawn global attention, raised about 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in its IPO, according to its prospectus. Shares rose to 968.1 yuan apiece, after hitting as high as 1,100 yuan earlier. Read more on CNBC: https://t.co/ayLqb5CmD2
- Aug 15, 202611x their median
Berkshire adds $17 billion to Alphabet stake https://t.co/0IkuXKh9S6
- Aug 26, 202611x their median
Debasement trade to take bitcoin to $300,000 in three years, Bernstein says https://t.co/o4WCUbBTHo
- Aug 15, 20269.7x their median
Marijuana reform is emerging as a midterm elections issue on both sides of the aisle https://t.co/yz9DU0ZevF
- Aug 15, 20268.1x their median
Berkshire Hathaway sharply increased its stake in Alphabet in the second quarter, vaulting the Google parent into its three biggest stock holdings. The sprawling conglomerate also added to the size of its investments in Delta Air Lines and various homebuilders. Berkshire, now operating under CEO Greg Abel, owned about 106 million Alphabet shares worth $37.9 billion at the end of June, according to a regulatory filing released Friday. The size of the position jumped 83% in the latest quarter, making Alphabet the third-largest U.S.-listed equity holding at Omaha-based Berkshire by market value. Only investments in Apple and American Express are larger. Read the full story: https://t.co/ZnKU84PfG7
- Aug 15, 20267.8x their median
Nvidia eyes investing $3 billion in SoftBank's SB Energy under OpenAI data center deal, Information says https://t.co/xpsYedvQZ5
- Aug 17, 20267.6x their median
Lakers controlling owner Jeanie Buss opposes sale of family's stake to Bob Iger, Joshua Kushner https://t.co/qVKobiREDA
- Aug 29, 20267.4x their median
Iran trade falls as Supreme Leader Khamenei urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar https://t.co/u7AOdS6Cjo
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 34 interactions against 6.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 473 original posts, its engagement rate beats 13% of 3,739 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 30K times each, and 0.114% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.483% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 16.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 473 posts sampled, 16% carry an image or video and 97% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 697 interactions, about 21x its own typical post.
- What is CNBC's engagement rate on X?
- CNBC (@CNBC) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 473 original posts from the last 30 days against 6,188,092 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, CNBC sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @CNBC have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 13% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @CNBC post?
- Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 16.33 posts per day across the measured window.