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Pepe Escobar engagement report

@RealPepeEscobar - 266K followers on X

Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 30, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.743%
of 266K followers
Per impression
6.60%
30K views on a typical post
Reach
11.3%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.0K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.157%
47 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.4/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
05:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 2.0K interactions against 266K followers, an engagement rate of 0.743%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 21,624 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 30K times each, and 6.60% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.3% 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, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 9.7x its own typical post.

Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 30, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Pepe Escobar's engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 92% 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 0.743%, Pepe Escobar sits above the 75th percentile of the 218,393 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the top 25% band, which runs 0.705% to 2.63%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.149%
p750.705%
p902.63%
p9982.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 218,393 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 21,698 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.149%
75th percentile0.705%
90th percentile2.63%
99th percentile82.5%

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 05:00 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.

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: 05:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 05:00 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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 video53% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link18% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 53% 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.
  • 18% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 227 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

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

  • Oct 27, 20269.7x their median

    Why Did the British Come to Hate the Russians? – Jeffrey Sachs https://t.co/KwRf6AIhBQ

    13K4.9K612449654K viewsView on X
  • Oct 27, 20262.7x their median

    BRAZIL For the first time EVER, the streets of a sovereign nation defeated techno-feudalist algorithms. While the younger generations beat the algorithms in their own game. Yes, Global South: it's possible.

    4.1K1.1K912442K viewsView on X
  • Sep 15, 20262.3x their median

    THE REAL INDIA-CHINA CLASH AT BRICS The members-only top BRICS session. Modi de facto blames Xi for weaponizing rare earth minerals. When the US weaponized semiconductors, India was deaf, dumb and blind. No wonder Xi skipped the gala dinner. The BRICS summit that REALLY matters will be in 2027. In China.

    3.6K7391983788K viewsView on X
  • Oct 26, 20262.1x their median

    NEVER underestimate the Persians. They are securing nothing less than the collapse of the US security paradigm in West Asia. Turkiye, Saudi, Pakistan must accept Iran as the key "indivisibility of security" partner (see Lavrov). Accomplished without firing a single shot. https://t.co/NvAY3TJpNL

    3.1K9421034057K viewsView on X
  • Sep 3, 20262.1x their median

    https://t.co/IdWiVeNh98

    3.1K898431438K viewsView on X
  • Oct 26, 20261.8x their median

    The Turkiye intel chief; the Saudi Defense Minister; and the Pakistani Field Marshal, all bowing and begging for mercy from Tehran to reign in the Houthis. Now THAT's a sight to behold.

    2.8K6201003353K viewsView on X
  • Oct 28, 20261.8x their median

    SAY HELLO TO FLAVIO GUAIDO The full force of the US government - with help from Argentine vassals, complete with a decoy Gulfstream in Puerto Iguazu airport - was thoroughly implicated in the extraction of losing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro crossed the Brazil-Argentina border on foot in the middle of the night, carrying only his Brazilian ID. He had been deprived of his Brazilian passports and considered a flight risk as the subject of a serious ongoing investigation for money laundering. The extraction was Plan B in case of losing the election. Approved at the very top of the Empire of Piracy. The infernal machine will never give up. The Mother of all Hybrid Wars continues. Flavio Guaido, a.k.a. Maria Corina Bolsonaro will certainly have one hell of a time posing as the lead coward of the Brazilian opposition-in-exile.

    2.6K796802949K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 20261.8x their median

    MbS asked the death cult to help him fight against Yemen. That's all the Ummah needs to know.

    2.9K578641654K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 20261.7x their median

    Just compare Lula's speech at the comatose UN with a crude, crass, cruel psycho toddler threatening to "annihilate" a whole nation - code for nuclear genocide - while completely destroying the UN Charter in real time.

    2.7K56523941K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 20261.6x their median

    https://t.co/OlY2MrUzQR

    2.7K523221731K 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 2.0K interactions against 266K followers, an engagement rate of 0.743%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 21,624 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 30K times each, and 6.60% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.3% 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, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 53% carry an image or video and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 9.7x its own typical post.

What is Pepe Escobar's engagement rate on X?
Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) has an engagement rate of 0.743%, based on the median interactions across 17 original posts from the last 30 days against 266,287 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.743%, Pepe Escobar sits above the 75th percentile of the 218,393 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 @RealPepeEscobar have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 @RealPepeEscobar post?
Most posts go out around 05:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.4 posts per day across the measured window.

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