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Tucker Carlson engagement report

@TuckerCarlson - 18M followers on X

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.092%
of 18M followers
Per impression
1.28%
1.3M views on a typical post
Reach
7.21%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
17K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.17%
2.2K bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.03/day
active 50% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 17K interactions against 18M followers, an engagement rate of 0.092%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 83% of 3,809 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 1.3M times each, and 1.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.21% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 75% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 120K interactions, about 7.3x its own typical post.

Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Tucker Carlson's engagement rate beats 83% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 63% 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 0.092%, Tucker Carlson sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,960 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.435%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.435%
p902.10%
p99159.8%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,960 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,518 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 percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.435%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.8%

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 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.

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%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%73K
11:00 UTC-3%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-2%96K
14:00 UTC-4%99K
15:00 UTC-2%102K
16:00 UTC-3%99K
17:00 UTC-2%92K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-2%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-2%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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%233K
Monday0%292K
Tuesday-3%284K
Wednesday-1%253K
Thursday-2%246K
Friday-3%255K
Saturday+3%229K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 1, 20267.3x their median

    We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he’s betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center. The movement has begun. https://t.co/mZXadw0kBr

    89K13K15K2.7K14M viewsView on X
  • May 28, 20264.5x their median

    At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide. https://t.co/HyopLlE72A

    64K16K4.9K1.1K6.2M viewsView on X
  • Jun 25, 20263.7x their median

    It took a while, but Donald Trump has finally figured out that the biggest threat to his administration is Israel. https://t.co/K2krpVnK3C

    48K8.0K3.4K3731.7M viewsView on X
  • Jun 19, 20263.4x their median

    Many celebrity pastors are exploiting the Christian faith and the nonprofit system to line their own pockets. It’s unbelievable. Watch The Religion Business on TCN. https://t.co/00LDzQOcQV

    45K8.7K2.1K4882.1M viewsView on X
  • Jun 4, 20262.6x their median

    Whites are dying. It’s not an accident and the only crime is noticing. https://t.co/Mu43rWCHYV

    36K5.6K1.5K3371.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20262.3x their median

    There are more than 100 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Donald Trump has no intention of deporting them. Greg Bovino ran the Border Patrol until earlier this year, and saw the betrayal firsthand. Now he says the administration is threatening his life. https://t.co/n2Sy98Vch5

    28K6.1K3.4K7213.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20262.3x their median

    Ben Shapiro to America: shut up and eat your goyslop. Overpriced burritos are more than you deserve. https://t.co/LvssAfi53o

    32K3.9K2.1K3181.9M viewsView on X
  • Jul 16, 20262.2x their median

    If surveillance makes us safe, why are so many people murdered in prison? Flock cameras and the coming slave state. https://t.co/7W6rXulFzk

    30K5.4K1.1K2502.3M viewsView on X
  • Jun 18, 20262.2x their median

    The Iran war seems to be ending, along with our uncritical support for Israel, and not a moment too soon. No wonder the neocons are hysterical. https://t.co/5TQhxdIiR1

    30K4.6K1.5K1931.4M viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 20262.2x their median

    This month, unless Donald Trump stops it, our treasonous Congress is likely to merge the US military with Israel’s genocidal armed forces. Dennis Kucinich on the end of American sovereignty. 0:00 The Attempt to Merge the US Military With the IDF 6:08 The Subversion of Congress 12:30 Why Is So Much Money Spent on Defense? 25:15 Israel's Genocide 26:59 Who Is Pushing This Bill? 45:33 How Can America Remain Independent? 48:38 Are People Getting Radical? 52:41 Will Democrats Vote Against This Bill? 55:46 Was This System Designed to Hurt Our Country? 58:50 Has Anyone Explicitly Defended This? 59:24 Will Trump Veto This Bill? 1:03:10 Is It Possible to Fix the System?

    26K7.4K2.2K5542.3M 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 17K interactions against 18M followers, an engagement rate of 0.092%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 83% of 3,809 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 1.3M times each, and 1.28% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.21% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 50% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 75% are part of a thread and 13% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 120K interactions, about 7.3x its own typical post.

What is Tucker Carlson's engagement rate on X?
Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) has an engagement rate of 0.092%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 17,941,210 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.092%, Tucker Carlson sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,960 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 @TuckerCarlson have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 83% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 @TuckerCarlson post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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