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Herd w/Colin Cowherd engagement report

@TheHerd - 477K followers on X

Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.061%
of 477K followers
Per impression
0.879%
33K views on a typical post
Reach
6.95%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
292
interactions (median)
Saved
0.11%
36 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.3/day
active 20% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 292 interactions against 477K followers, an engagement rate of 0.061%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,848 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 33K times each, and 0.879% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.95% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.7K interactions, about 16x its own typical post.

Measured over 38 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Herd w/Colin Cowherd's engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 47% 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 0.061%, Herd w/Colin Cowherd sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,320 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.436%
p902.10%
p99160.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,320 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,750 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.436%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.1%

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 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.

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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%62K
09:00 UTC-3%71K
10:00 UTC-2%74K
11:00 UTC-3%80K
12:00 UTC-2%88K
13:00 UTC-2%97K
14:00 UTC-4%100K
15:00 UTC-2%103K
16:00 UTC-3%100K
17:00 UTC-3%93K
18:00 UTC-2%87K
19:00 UTC-2%82K
20:00 UTC-1%76K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-1%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%235K
Monday0%296K
Tuesday-3%292K
Wednesday-1%254K
Thursday-2%248K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Mar 24, 202516x their median

    We only get @BillSimmons on the show once in a blue moon To celebrate, here's his entire 26-minute long discussion with @ColinCowherd https://t.co/CXkzN8apHx

    4.3K191163432.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202612x their median

    "I don't feel sorry for a lot of pro athletes... Then there's Joe Burrow. I feel bad for him." @colincowherd reacts to Burrow's comments about the Bengals organization https://t.co/mdJX6gY0Bx

    2.8K13929881279K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20266.2x their median

    "She is Steph Curry but with a Michael Jordan mindset. All business. All basketball. Has no opinion or comment on the controversies." @colincowherd argues the WNBA needs to embrace Caitlin Clark while the league is surrounded by controversy https://t.co/dWSJlDxk7s

    1.6K142851288K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20265.5x their median

    "For Cleveland sports radio: Christmas came in August. This is going to infuriate fans... I have no sympathy for losing NFL franchises." @colincowherd reacts to Deshaun Watson being named Browns starting QB over Shedeur Sanders https://t.co/ZJJjiEXbs2

    1.5K88388129K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20265.3x their median

    "People think they fell off a cliff. They were 4th in total offense. They swept the Bears, a playoff team... The Detroit Lions are absolutely an elite franchise." @colincowherd isn't closing the Lions Super Bowl window just yet https://t.co/Q0XL58xjXB

    1.4K143401882K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20265.1x their median

    "When you compare him and his first 3 years statistically he's better than Favre and basically even with Rodgers." @colincowherd breaks down the numbers and explains why Jordan Love is quietly becoming the next great Packers QB https://t.co/nEdT6T8qNh

    1.3K1414540232K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20264.7x their median

    Lions & ??📈 Steelers & ??📉 After visiting 23 NFL training camps, @AlbertBreer tells @colincowherd two teams that could impress this season... and two that could fall apart quickly https://t.co/59Lj031x2a

    1.3K6898188K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20262.9x their median

    "I picked Notre Dame to win the whole thing. They're going to be my national champion. There's an entire litany of reasons..." @colincowherd & @joelklatt are both VERY HIGH on the Fighting Irish this season https://t.co/WqBo1N0VOG

    734652413121K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20262.8x their median

    "He gets booed stepping on the field for the first time, proceeds to play poorly, and unloads on the fans... He didn't show he had the mental toughness, at least that night, to overcome it." @colincowherd & @TonyGrossi on Deshaun Watson being named Browns starting QB https://t.co/arel61qhpL

    66948761184K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20262.6x their median

    How will each AFC division shake out from top to bottom? Who will be the 3 NEW playoff teams from the AFC? @colincowherd reveals his AFC predictions for the 2026 NFL season https://t.co/bwd6W50g1i

    7003333750K 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 292 interactions against 477K followers, an engagement rate of 0.061%. Measured over 38 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,848 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 33K times each, and 0.879% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.95% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 38 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.7K interactions, about 16x its own typical post.

What is Herd w/Colin Cowherd's engagement rate on X?
Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) has an engagement rate of 0.061%, based on the median interactions across 38 original posts from the last 30 days against 477,248 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.061%, Herd w/Colin Cowherd sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,320 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 @TheHerd have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 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 @TheHerd post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.

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