Senate Democrats engagement report
@SenateDems - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 292 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 48% of 3,882 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 12K times each, and 2.37% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 40x its own typical post.
Measured over 24 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Senate Democrats's engagement rate beats 48% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 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 0.024%, Senate Democrats sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 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 | 156.3% |
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 Friday 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
- Sep 1, 202640x their median
Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail. https://t.co/ZBoklOtvrQ
- Aug 30, 202627x their median
🚨 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE REQUESTED The NPS is asking for information about more than 20 individuals who may be missing or unaccounted for following the Aug. 29 flash flood in Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area. If you know of hikers/backpackers who were in the Bright Angel Creek corridor Aug. 29—or had a campground reservation there—please contact NPS Investigative Services Branch: 📞 888-653-0009 📧 nps_isb@nps.gov This includes those who may have been on the North Kaibab Trail between the trailhead and Phantom Ranch, at Bright Angel Campground, or in “the Box” north of Phantom Ranch. https://t.co/Bywrohwc44
- Aug 14, 20264.0x their median
No food. No toothpaste. No hot water. 200+ days without setting foot on land. And Hegseth wants to call it fake news? @SenBlumenthal: This is a real strategic issue and a toll on our military readiness. https://t.co/q54T4fJbTL
- Aug 26, 20262.7x their median
JUST IN: PCE Inflation for July was 3.7%. That's slightly worse than expected (and still close to a three-year high). The monthly increase was +0.2% (vs. 0.1% expected). Core PCE which excludes food and energy was 3.3%. The monthly increase was +0.2% Bottom line: The war in Iran impact is still in effect. Inflation didn't get any better in July, according to PCE.
- Aug 17, 20262.3x their median
Via @SenWhitehouse: Imagine this: a White House press secretary says "pay me $100,000 and you get the news first. Everyone else, leave the room." Corrupt, right? That's what's happening with Trump's Truth Social scheme. https://t.co/mQXzB0PoEd
- Aug 18, 20262.2x their median
CNN: The federal debt is quickly approaching a record $40 trillion. That's such a large number it's almost impossible to wrap your head around. https://t.co/eGUiztcyhd
- Aug 31, 2026
The administration says it is targeting "the worst of the worst." Last week ICE detained nearly 100 people in Connecticut, and only 6 or 7 had any criminal history. WATCH @SenBlumenthal: “The point is cruelty. They are trying to spread terror and sow fear.” https://t.co/2HrA3fLpdU
- Aug 24, 2026
Families join President Donald Trump on a tour of the helipad under construction 📸REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst https://t.co/5lEyotiojE
- Aug 18, 2026
Foreign governments paid hundreds of millions into Trump's crypto empire. Now, Trump's own administration approved a Trump family crypto bank. The client. The regulator. The beneficiary. ALL Trump. WATCH @SenOssoff: "We're in banana republic territory." https://t.co/rV2qHDBJ4M
- Aug 21, 2026
Trump spent years promising to reduce the debt. This week, the national debt topped $40 TRILLION for the first time ever. Trump just made history for all the wrong reasons. https://t.co/p7O7y1qecF
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 292 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 24 original posts, its engagement rate beats 48% of 3,882 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 12K times each, and 2.37% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.02% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 24 posts sampled, 92% carry an image or video and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 12K interactions, about 40x its own typical post.
- What is Senate Democrats's engagement rate on X?
- Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) has an engagement rate of 0.024%, based on the median interactions across 24 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,206,065 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.024%, Senate Democrats sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 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 @SenateDems have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 48% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 @SenateDems post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.1 posts per day across the measured window.