Overton engagement report
@overton_news - 272K followers on X
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 374 interactions against 272K followers, an engagement rate of 0.138%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 21,624 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 27K times each, and 1.37% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.0% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 63x its own typical post.
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Overton's engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 51% 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 0.138%, Overton sits above the 25th percentile of the 218,393 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.149%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.149% |
| 75th percentile | 0.705% |
| 90th percentile | 2.63% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 0% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 0% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 609 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Oct 20, 202663x their median
Social justice journalist Lisa Durden MELTS DOWN on air after getting absolutely wrecked about the riots in France by conservative commentator Ben Ferguson. Durden claimed the riots were just “student protests,” but Ferguson wasn’t about to let that slide, and he had the receipts to back it up. Then he delivered a brutal reality check that sent Durden into a fit of RAGE. FERGUSON: “You either have to be incredibly incompetent or totally blind to look at the images and think that this is students that are doing this.” Durden immediately snapped. DURDEN: “What you’re not going to do is call me a pathological liar!” “I’m talking now! You’re not going to call me a pathological liar because you don’t know me, so stop that right now!” “EXCUSE YOU!” Katie Pavlich did her best to keep the show from going completely off the rails.
- Sep 19, 202627x their median
Bill Maher just weighed in on the Macklemore saga and dropped a heavy dose of common sense on the whole thing. Maher put it perfectly: MAHER: “Is anyone looking for anything of this at a concert? I mean, do I really need a lecture on politics of any stripe, right when the molly is kicking in?” This is one of those 80/20 issues. People are sick of going to a concert to hear their favorite music and instead getting preached to about politics by entertainers who have no more expertise on the subject than the people sitting in the crowd. He didn’t stop with Macklemore...Maher also took a few shots at Bruce Springsteen for doing the exact same thing. MAHER: “I don’t want Bruce Springsteen to do it either. Why is he doing this? What’s the point? Because the people who agree with him, agree with him, but there’s a lot of people, I bet, who are Trump voters who like Bruce Springsteen and always have.” “He looks like one of them, he’s a working class guy. Now they have to go to the concert like, okay, I still like the music, but, you know, really? I don’t love you as much, Mr. Boss.” Bang on take from Bill.
- Sep 22, 202618x their median
Scott Jennings does it again. The CNN panel went into a tailspin, scrambling to justify banning President Trump from social media the moment Jennings compared it to Trump restricting the press from the White House. It was immediate mental gymnastics. He nailed the root of their hypocrisy with a single question. JENNINGS: “If you’re mad about reporters being restricted from going to the White House to report, why would you simultaneously have been someone that would have called for Donald Trump to have had his [speech restricted]? That’s when the panel exploded.
- Oct 22, 202617x their median
That was a haymaker. After Abdul El-Sayed claimed that Mike Rogers is “bought off” by weapons manufacturers and AIPAC, Rogers dropped the gloves and peeled back the curtain on his radical ties. He called out the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah by name before dropping a legendary line: ROGERS: “If you are going to go to the United States Senate, we need to know, are you for America or are you for these terrorist groups overseas?” El-Sayed grinned back at him. Rogers wasn’t finished. “Well, you can grin and you can smile and you talk real pretty, but I’m going to tell you what — that is a RISK to our national security.” Brutal.
- Sep 3, 202615x their median
Caroline Sunshine exposed a blatant double standard on CNN. The panel demanded that she answer for Ken Paxton's past. But when Sunshine brought up James Talarico's claim that white men are America's biggest domestic terrorist threat, suddenly past comments no longer mattered. SUNSHINE: "Do you think it's okay that he said that white men are the biggest domestic terrorist threat to this country?" ADAM MOCKLER: "Was this some comment from like 2019 that was kind of cringe?" SUNSHINE: "So people aren't held accountable for their past comments?" ADAM MOCKLER: "Of course I don't agree with that. But James Talarico isn't running on that." There it is. Paxton's history must define him, but Talarico's history is dismissed the moment it becomes inconvenient.
- Sep 19, 202614x their median
The look on Bill Maher’s face was priceless. He literally couldn’t tell if Jessica Tarlov was joking or not. Maher did a double take after Tarlov claimed, with a straight face, that Democrats are “less crazy.” He initially laughed because he thought she was being sarcastic. Then he realized she was actually serious... MAHER: “But I think these recent elections about the Democrats are crazy on social issues, people don’t like that, Trump’s crazy but economy is better. But he doesn’t have the economy anymore.” “I mean...” TARLOV: “And we’re less crazy.” [Silence] MAHER: “Who’s less crazy?” TARLOV: “Democrats!” MAHER: “WHAT??!” TARLOV: “You haven’t noticed?” MAHER: “Have you seen the Democratic…” Maher stopped mid-sentence and began laughing, thinking that Tarlov was cracking a joke. [Audience cracks up] MAHER: “You’re being sarcastic? Oh, I see.” TARLOV: “No…” MAHER: “NO?!” “You think we’re less crazy?” TARLOV: “Maybe not inside, but at least when we go out and give a speech talking about the economy and corruption…” That’s when Maher hit her with a cold dose of reality. MAHER: “They’re communists who think the Islamists are the good guys…” “Are you kidding?! Less crazy?!” TARLOV: “The candidates?” MAHER: “Some of the candidates. You’re not following the Democratic Socialists of America?” Maher had her dead to rights, and she knew it.
- Oct 18, 202614x their median
MICHIGAN SENATE VOTE % FORECAST: 🟦 Abdul El-Sayed: 49.7% 🟥 Mike Rogers: 47.4% https://t.co/GXBCg5Ooie
- Aug 20, 202612x their median
This was a methodical takedown. CNN’s Abby Phillip tried to paint DOGE as a complete failure and then went after Scott Jennings for defending the effort to cut government waste. Jennings didn’t take the bait. He fired back with three brutal reminders that destroyed her narrative on the spot. PHILLIP: “Many people, including you and others at this table, would argue to me that what DOGE was doing was so important…that they were finding government contracts for $30 million.” “And it was chipping away at our national debt. That wasn’t true.” “But now we’re on a spending spree for the president’s vanity projects?” JENNINGS: “I never said they were chipping away at the national debt.” “I’ve consistently said out here and everywhere else that the national debt will only be solved when both parties get serious about entitlement reform. That’s number one.” “Number two, DOGE did important work, which was shine light on things that were patently ridiculous.” “Number three, the federal government is smaller today than it has been since the 1960s and as a portion of GDP it’s smaller, probably since the turn of the last century.” “The $40 trillion debt is a bipartisan disgrace.” “But Dan is exactly right to connect it to the helipad, which is being paid for by Sikorsky, not by tax dollars, is patently ridiculous.”
- Sep 17, 202612x their median
The Treasury Secretary is a good man. The crew on Squawk Box took a moment to read a letter Scott Bessent wrote to one of their retiring finance anchors, Rick Santelli. Bessent essentially offered Santelli a job at Treasury if he finds himself bored during retirement. Lol. “If you find yourself missing early mornings, Treasury yields, Fed debates and the occasional spirited argument, we may be able to find a desk at Treasury.” Santelli sat on the sidelines with a huge smile on his face, clearly humbled by the honor of receiving a letter from the Treasury Secretary himself. Then Santelli cracked everyone up when he told the panel Bessent’s letter will go on his wall next to one from Karl Rove that simply said: “You magnificent bastard!” Santelli was great at what he did, and he will be missed.
- Sep 2, 20268.8x their median
Bill O'Reilly issued a dire warning for Donald Trump. If Democrats win both chambers of Congress, presidency will effectively be over, done, finished. O'REILLY: "If the Democrats win the Senate and the House, it's over for President Trump." "They'll impeach him, they'll sue him, every two minutes will be something else and nothing will ever get passed." "So, there are going to be two years of 'Let's get Trump.'" The Republicans must hold at least one chamber or Trump's entire legacy could be destroyed. These midterms are not just about who controls Congress. They will decide whether Trump spends his final two years governing or fighting for survival. Republicans needs to get their heads in the game and finally realize what time it is.
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 374 interactions against 272K followers, an engagement rate of 0.138%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 65% of 21,624 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 27K times each, and 1.37% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 10.0% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 63x its own typical post.
- What is Overton's engagement rate on X?
- Overton (@overton_news) has an engagement rate of 0.138%, based on the median interactions across 33 original posts from the last 30 days against 272,233 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.138%, Overton sits above the 25th percentile of the 218,393 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 @overton_news have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 65% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 @overton_news post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.