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CSPAN engagement report

@cspan - 2.0M followers on X

Measured over 387 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.002%
of 2.0M followers
Per impression
0.253%
17K views on a typical post
Reach
0.83%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
43
interactions (median)
Saved
0.024%
4 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
13.23/day
active 63% of days
Peak time
19:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 43 interactions against 2.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 387 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 3,739 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 17K times each, and 0.253% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.834% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 13.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 387 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 368x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #natbookfest, #marines, #rip.

Measured over 387 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #natbookfest, #marines, #rip.

Compared with accounts its own size

CSPAN's engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 24% 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%, CSPAN sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.432%
p902.10%
p99161.0%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,378 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,364 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 percentile0.432%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile161.0%

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 19:00 UTC, and Monday 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: 19:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 19:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%50K
01:00 UTC-2%51K
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%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
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%100K
16:00 UTC-3%97K
17:00 UTC-2%90K
18:00 UTC-1%84K
19:00 UTC-2%79K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%57K
23:00 UTC-2%51K
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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%230K
Monday0%286K
Tuesday-2%276K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%244K
Friday-3%252K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 29, 2026368x their median

    U.S. Sen. candidate @AbdulElSayed (D-MI) on Hasan Piker: "If you want to make this race about a streamer in California, I just think you're missing the vote." https://t.co/1qgx2Au074

    15K4572631464.3M viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202664x their median

    From 2018: @DollyParton explains what inspired her to create the Imagination Library, which has now gifted more than 325 million books. https://t.co/30kTEDARd1

    2.0K6261360248K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202658x their median

    Iowa gov. candidate @RobSandIA (D) on opponent Zach Lahn (R): "It's more important for you to remember this over the next two-and-a-half months than any other one thing that you remember about him, so here it is: He's a human being." https://t.co/vPhCF0PyJU

    2.2K23041591.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202645x their median

    .@EdMarkey (D-MA) calls for Trump to be impeached and for ICE to be abolished: "We need to slash the defense budget and we need to impeach Donald Trump now." https://t.co/qLZ3QB3DaN

    1.4K30421528105K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202640x their median

    Ghanaian monarch and King of the Ashanti Kingdom Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II on American DEI Policy & the African Diaspora, @HowardU hosts – Live at 6pm ET on C-SPAN https://t.co/MC4QejPCJF https://t.co/UJ5sjNSqtN

    1.2K4284446185K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202639x their median

    Hillary Clinton thinks many Republicans were "secretly cheering" Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for standing up to Trump following an impasse in trade negotiations. https://t.co/xOJDVMfDZd

    1.3K21812978429K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202638x their median

    U.S. Sen. candidate @AbdulElSayed (D-MI) on opponent Mike Rogers (R-MI) not committing to a debate: "You know, cowards, they wanna shoot shots from $45 million super PACS paid for by the big corporation; they don't actually want to sit down and have a conversation." https://t.co/NhGv3zWF83

    1.2K2811451360K viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202636x their median

    Tense exchange between Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) and audience member over some of her corporate PAC donations: "Do you know how PAC contributions work? I have no control over the PAC money coming in or how it's spent." https://t.co/ZkxPPWYZ8l

    1.1K26216160330K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 202632x their median

    President Trump signs an executive order renaming Lake Ontario: "We're gonna be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America." https://t.co/ejkvAWJ2Wc

    76814039683218K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202626x their median

    Minister of Industry of Canada Mélanie Joly announces $7.5 billion aid package for businesses in response to U.S. tariffs https://t.co/YnA75pgdlX

    360975201441.3M 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.

Recurring topics

#natbookfest#marines#rip#scsen

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 43 interactions against 2.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 387 original posts, its engagement rate beats 25% of 3,739 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 17K times each, and 0.253% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.834% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 13.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 387 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 34% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 368x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #natbookfest, #marines, #rip.

What is CSPAN's engagement rate on X?
CSPAN (@cspan) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 387 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,037,233 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.002%, CSPAN sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @cspan have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 25% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @cspan post?
Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 13.23 posts per day across the measured window.

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