Penguin Books USA engagement report
@penguinusa - 3.6M followers on X
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 36 interactions against 3.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 3,809 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 6.7K times each, and 0.536% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.188% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video and 82% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 41x its own typical post.
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Penguin Books USA's engagement rate beats 18% 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 40% 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 0.001%, Penguin Books USA sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,960 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 | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 14:00 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% | 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 6, 202641x their median
A beautiful collection of @PenguinClassics to keep you busy this weekend! Which one are you ready to dive into? https://t.co/SpIe3AiCgD
- Jul 20, 202612x their median
What book is getting you through the week? 📚✨
- Aug 14, 20269.3x their median
What is your weirdest reading habit? 📚
- Jul 3, 20264.5x their median
Alert 🚨 Time to stop scrolling and start reading!
- Jul 13, 20264.2x their median
What is one question you'd ask your favorite author if you got the chance?
- Jul 12, 20263.5x their median
Weekend reading stack 📚 https://t.co/TuJFuER9PV
- Aug 17, 20263.1x their median
Whether you're setting up a classroom for the first time or have been teaching for decades, these books will help you prepare for the new school year: https://t.co/Sk8k3ObOFc https://t.co/4RagyPmmkv
- Jul 23, 20262.9x their median
A gorgeous stack of blue books to cheer you up! https://t.co/RoFmxAWc11
- Jul 22, 20262.3x their median
So many great books to add to your summerween reading list! https://t.co/i60rJK7hMF
- Jul 4, 20262.0x their median
Non-fiction readers, this summer is full of can't-miss reads 📚 https://t.co/HUbukxybb2
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 36 interactions against 3.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 18% of 3,809 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 6.7K times each, and 0.536% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.188% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video and 82% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.5K interactions, about 41x its own typical post.
- What is Penguin Books USA's engagement rate on X?
- Penguin Books USA (@penguinusa) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 33 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,573,658 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, Penguin Books USA sits below the 10th 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 @penguinusa have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 18% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @penguinusa post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.47 posts per day across the measured window.