The Babylon Bee engagement report
@TheBabylonBee - 5.3M followers on X
Measured over 255 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3.1K interactions against 5.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.059%. Measured over 255 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 4,142 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 164K times each, and 1.88% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 255 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 66K interactions, about 21x its own typical post.
Measured over 255 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 2, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Babylon Bee's engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,142 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 0.059%, The Babylon Bee sits above the 25th percentile of the 40,086 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.013% to 0.082%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.013% |
| 50th percentile | 0.082% |
| 75th percentile | 0.441% |
| 90th percentile | 2.07% |
| 99th percentile | 149.1% |
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 21:00 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% | 56K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 55K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 59K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 47K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 46K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 57K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 67K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 77K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 87K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 95K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 107K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 111K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 108K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 82K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 73K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 63K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 247K |
| Monday | +1% | 317K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 335K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 285K |
| Thursday | -2% | 257K |
| Friday | -3% | 268K |
| Saturday | +3% | 242K |
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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 3.1K interactions against 5.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.059%. Measured over 255 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 4,142 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 164K times each, and 1.88% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.12% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 255 posts sampled, 7% carry an image or video and 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 66K interactions, about 21x its own typical post.
- What is The Babylon Bee's engagement rate on X?
- The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) has an engagement rate of 0.059%, based on the median interactions across 255 original posts from the last 30 days against 5,266,517 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.059%, The Babylon Bee sits above the 25th percentile of the 40,086 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 @TheBabylonBee have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,142 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 @TheBabylonBee post?
- Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 8.53 posts per day across the measured window.