Sheldon Whitehouse engagement report
@SenWhitehouse - 569K followers on X
Measured over 41 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 468 interactions against 569K followers, an engagement rate of 0.082%. Measured over 41 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 3,917 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 11K times each, and 4.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 41 posts sampled, 34% carry an image or video, 17% are part of a thread and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.0K interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
Measured over 41 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Sheldon Whitehouse's engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 89% 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 0.082%, Sheldon Whitehouse sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
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 | 155.6% |
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 17:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 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% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Aug 17, 202611x their median
When will Republicans concede the man has lost his mind? https://t.co/HXmJD7YuMG
- Aug 25, 20269.6x their median
What a great opportunity to clear up whether Thomas paid his taxes on the income of his forgiven motorcoach loan, when, and with what money. But I guess that’s a secret. https://t.co/soBziSzMPc
- Aug 22, 20269.4x their median
The fact is that Trump added more debt than Biden, and Republican presidents have added more debt than Democrats. By lots. https://t.co/FcPTEmmurv
- Aug 15, 20266.9x their median
https://t.co/GqEUdyxZkT
- Aug 18, 20266.9x their median
Add up this, his threat to bomb Oman, the endless Iran mess he made, Greenland, and his weird NATO-hating and Putin-loving, and it should be increasingly clear to Republicans that the guy’s just not all there. https://t.co/gGLUrxuo3F
- Jan 14, 20266.5x their median
The Grid and the Scam. https://t.co/xlR4v5l4JC
- Aug 18, 20266.3x their median
Well, well, well. At last DOJ files its FIRST pleading in the collusive case of the Trump slush fund and tax fraud amnesty. And wow, their position aligns exactly with the Trump lawyers’. Odd way to show it’s not collusive.
- Aug 21, 20265.5x their median
https://t.co/87rvmDrnO8
- Aug 14, 20265.5x their median
The level of misconduct in Blanche’s DOJ is unprecedented. https://t.co/SpdJp94pom
- Aug 18, 20264.5x their median
Remember when Kash Patel said… https://t.co/rcZBE1JNRo
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 468 interactions against 569K followers, an engagement rate of 0.082%. Measured over 41 original posts, its engagement rate beats 67% of 3,917 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 11K times each, and 4.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 41 posts sampled, 34% carry an image or video, 17% are part of a thread and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.0K interactions, about 11x its own typical post.
- What is Sheldon Whitehouse's engagement rate on X?
- Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) has an engagement rate of 0.082%, based on the median interactions across 41 original posts from the last 30 days against 569,487 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.082%, Sheldon Whitehouse sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 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 @SenWhitehouse have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 67% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @SenWhitehouse post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.