Barron's engagement report
@barronsonline - 406K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 406K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 5.2K times each, and 0.154% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.28% 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 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 41 interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Barron's's engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 8% 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 0.002%, Barron's sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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 16:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 98K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 30, 20265.1x their median
Gold Is on Shining Again. Is It Too Late to Get In? https://t.co/TdVdK2O19k
- Aug 28, 20262.8x their median
U.S. Payrolls Revised Down by 79,000 Jobs https://t.co/1q6b0zQD0T
- Aug 29, 20262.1x their median
Trump Deal For Venezuelan Oil Will Take Time to Impact Prices, Analysts Say https://t.co/lNLHkZ12xO
- Aug 28, 20262.0x their median
Oil Is Quietly Slipping Though the Strait of Hormuz. It’s Keeping a Lid on Prices. https://t.co/hBmHZADAU4
- Aug 28, 20261.9x their median
The Memory-Chip Battle Is on as China’s CXMT Posts Explosive Earnings Report https://t.co/NCDm2HqZlL
- Aug 28, 20261.8x their median
NASA Is About to Launch a Telescope. What That Means for SpaceX, Others. https://t.co/XtJNthjCpW
- Aug 28, 20261.6x their median
The Stock Market Got What It Needed From Nvidia and Warsh. Here’s What Comes Next. https://t.co/7l0mOMda0k
- Aug 28, 20261.6x their median
Wendy’s Stock Has Plunged, but History Shows How It Could Come Back https://t.co/2kY050OfhU
- Aug 28, 20261.6x their median
Nvidia vs. AMD: The Charts Point to a Clear Winner https://t.co/ApPRIIYfrS
- Aug 28, 20261.6x their median
SpaceX Sales Will Soar to $3.5 Trillion, Says Musk. How It Gets There. https://t.co/Dt7rw9P25j
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 8 interactions against 406K followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 8% of 3,758 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 5.2K times each, and 0.154% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.28% 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 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 41 interactions, about 5.1x its own typical post.
- What is Barron's's engagement rate on X?
- Barron's (@barronsonline) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 406,265 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Barron's sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @barronsonline have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 8% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @barronsonline post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.