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Leader John Thune engagement report

@LeaderJohnThune - 373K followers on X

Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.572%
of 373K followers
Per impression
2.92%
73K views on a typical post
Reach
19.6%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.1K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.011%
8 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.1/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
22:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 2.1K interactions against 373K followers, an engagement rate of 0.572%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 3,810 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 73K times each, and 2.92% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 19.6% 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 roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 6.9x its own typical post.

Measured over 29 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Leader John Thune's engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 74% 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 0.572%, Leader John Thune sits above the 75th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.435% to 2.10%.

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p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
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Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,852 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,564 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 percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 22:00 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: 22:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 22:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-3%95K
14:00 UTC-4%98K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-4%99K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%58K
23:00 UTC-2%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+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 7, 20266.9x their median

    .@SenateGOP has been delivering real wins for the American people. And our work continues. https://t.co/27R7Uk0fu0

    95530613K654359K viewsView on X
  • Jul 23, 20264.6x their median

    I carry the sense of community and belonging I had growing up in Murdo with me to this day. And I carry those small-town South Dakotans with me in a special way in my work here in Washington. https://t.co/r17Dg6hJEl

    4902118.7K454232K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20264.3x their median

    After processing this next batch of 74 Trump nominees, the Senate will have confirmed nearly every nominee available for floor consideration. My @SenateGOP colleagues and I are also advancing legislation that’s key to our shared Republican agenda. https://t.co/T3Mzh9wHE0

    1.2K3237.2K339294K viewsView on X
  • Jul 21, 20264.2x their median

    The country has already seen too much disruption in the past year, with two record-breaking shutdowns. I believe it is in everyone’s best interests to pass a clean continuing resolution as quickly as possible so the American people can have confidence that the government will be open and government employees will receive paychecks.

    9622817.3K356201K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 20264.0x their median

    To quote the New York Times, “Many Americans Say the Democratic Party Does Not Share Their Priorities.” Men in women’s sports. Abortion up until the moment of birth. Open borders. Defunding law enforcement. Democrats are getting more extreme. https://t.co/JGfphaFBp5

    1.9K4066.0K303167K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20263.6x their median

    By the end of the week, the Senate will confirm well over 70 of @POTUS’ highly qualified nominations. This means that the Senate will have confirmed available nominations at the best pace in 25 years, outpacing the past three administrations. https://t.co/MB4lXj5qbG

    1.5K2975.6K245141K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20263.5x their median

    From the very beginning of his second term, Democrats met @POTUS’ nominees with a historic level of obstruction. But @SenateGOP has been on a mission to ensure that the president has his nominees in place so that he can do the job the American people elected him to do. https://t.co/KXHZvDTLfy

    9422805.8K336280K viewsView on X
  • Jul 23, 20263.2x their median

    Despite historic Democrat obstruction, Senate Republicans are continuing to confirm @POTUS’ well-qualified judges ahead of the pace of the president’s first term. https://t.co/DIDWT6T2PX

    1.3K1535.2K177131K viewsView on X
  • Jul 27, 20263.0x their median

    Amid a heightened threat environment, having a proven leader as the director of national intelligence is especially important, and Jay Clayton fits the mold. I hope his confirmation will encourage my colleagues to stop blocking reauthorization of FISA. https://t.co/0ja8g9VNmF

    6681675.3K187221K viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 20262.4x their median

    Funding the government is our most basic responsibility as members of Congress. We owe it to the American people to get that job done – and done now. I applaud @SenatorCollins and the Appropriations Committee for continuing to work on a clean, bipartisan continuing resolution to get our government funded.

    5261474.3K207114K 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 2.1K interactions against 373K followers, an engagement rate of 0.572%. Measured over 29 original posts, its engagement rate beats 81% of 3,810 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 73K times each, and 2.92% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 19.6% 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 roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 29 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 15K interactions, about 6.9x its own typical post.

What is Leader John Thune's engagement rate on X?
Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) has an engagement rate of 0.572%, based on the median interactions across 29 original posts from the last 30 days against 372,900 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.572%, Leader John Thune sits above the 75th percentile of the 36,852 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 @LeaderJohnThune have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 81% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @LeaderJohnThune post?
Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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