Tom Cotton engagement report
@SenTomCotton - 821K followers on X
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 361 interactions against 821K followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 3,862 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 19K times each, and 1.89% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 58% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21K interactions, about 57x its own typical post.
Measured over 60 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Tom Cotton's engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 69% 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 0.044%, Tom Cotton sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,582 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 | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 158.1% |
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 Thursday 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% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 237K |
| Monday | 0% | 300K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 299K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 256K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 258K |
| Saturday | +3% | 232K |
Best tweets
- Aug 6, 202657x their median
President Donald J. Trump is taking historic action to protect the value of American citizenship by ENDING the practice of birth tourism. The privilege of United States citizenship is a priceless and profound gift. https://t.co/NAvEhHNioQ
- Aug 23, 202633x their median
Beef prices are too high for a simple reason: Our cattle herd is too small. Imported beef below market prices will only put more pressure on our cattlemen. I have advised the President against this ill-advised action in the past and I now urge him to reconsider. We need to support our cattlemen, grow the herd, and let the market work.
- Aug 10, 202624x their median
The United States stands with forces and friends of freedom around the world. Eliminating radical, anti-American regimes—like Iran—makes America a safer place. https://t.co/yJkXbPrQlF
- Aug 10, 202622x their median
Under no circumstances should sworn enemies of the United States come to our country to spread their radical, anti-American views. https://t.co/nexFEbDHqm
- Aug 11, 202621x their median
Iran’s revolutionary fanatics are never going to make the kind of deal we could accept. It’s time to finish the job and prevent Iran from blocking the Strait of Hormuz. https://t.co/BFEpDTqURX
- Aug 5, 202620x their median
Socialists and Marxists are taking over the Democratic Party. The radical left will stop at nothing to impose socialism on our country. https://t.co/7RXSdPEqKA
- Aug 6, 202613x their median
BREAKING: DOJ sources tell me Senate GOP leaders (Thune/Cotton) are refusing to declassify a key John Brennan transcript in order to "protect [then-SSCI Chair (2020-21)] Marco [Rubio] for a presidential run because Marco looks bad kissing [Dem Vice Chair Mark] Warner's ass" during the closed-door deposition, in which Brennan allegedly perjures himself regarding the Obama-ordered 2016 ICA and the Steele dossier.
- Aug 11, 202613x their median
Fauci knew the risks. He hid them. He must be held accountable. https://t.co/U4gWyEzFWG
- Aug 21, 202610x their median
Republicans cut taxes, secured the border, and invested in our military. Radical Democrats want to defund the police and protect illegal aliens. The choice is clear. https://t.co/kELrHV4O00
- Aug 11, 20269.6x their median
Democratic Socialists will make your life more expensive. They want to ban fossil fuels, grant amnesty to illegal aliens, and raise your taxes. If they succeed, the cost increases under Biden will pale in comparison.
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 361 interactions against 821K followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Measured over 60 original posts, its engagement rate beats 58% of 3,862 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 19K times each, and 1.89% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.33% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 60 posts sampled, 58% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 21K interactions, about 57x its own typical post.
- What is Tom Cotton's engagement rate on X?
- Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) has an engagement rate of 0.044%, based on the median interactions across 60 original posts from the last 30 days against 821,190 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.044%, Tom Cotton sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,582 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 @SenTomCotton have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 58% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 @SenTomCotton post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.7 posts per day across the measured window.