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Shaun King engagement report

@shaunking - 963K followers on X

Measured over 44 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Engagement

Top 10% for its size
Per follower
0.365%
of 963K followers
Per impression
2.77%
127K views on a typical post
Reach
13.2%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
3.5K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.103%
130 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
5.37/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
14:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 3.5K interactions against 963K followers, an engagement rate of 0.365%. Measured over 44 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 3,774 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 127K times each, and 2.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 13.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 44 posts sampled, 66% carry an image or video and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 42K interactions, about 12x its own typical post.

Measured over 44 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Shaun King's engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 78% 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 0.365%, Shaun King sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.433%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 14:00 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.

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: 14:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 14:00 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%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
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 19, 202612x their median

    There is no reforming this. https://t.co/q1dGoyqi0N

    31K10K418367389K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202611x their median

    ⚡️ Security checkpoint in Yemen 😂😅 https://t.co/2N0gIFuUoZ

    31K5.4K1.5K1.4K3.1M viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202610x their median

    THIS IS SO CRINGE🇮🇱🇻🇳 An Israeli tourist in Vietnam entered a paid attraction without paying, then expected busy workers to become her personal photographers for free. The entitlement is fucking unreal. https://t.co/U12S79H5z7

    30K4.5K6503173.1M viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20268.3x their median

    THIS IS NUCLEAR. Jewish-Israeli writer Jacob Cohen, admitted many Jewish civilians worldwide function as unpaid spies called Sayanim. They are ordinary Jews abroad who spy for and assist Mossad without being official agents, treating it as a religious duty. https://t.co/xP3EVv8SEl

    21K7.6K565454533K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20265.9x their median

    Hey @Grok This man got arrested in Florida for posing as a jihadist online and encouraging terrorism. Is he JEWISH by any chance? https://t.co/7Px2iefQv0

    17K3.6K404221442K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20265.7x their median

    INSANE LEAK In a closed-door video conference at a Jerusalem university, top Israeli Rabbi Breitowitz admitted that Jewish law permits enslaving non-Jews. He said race makes no difference, claiming white and Black gentiles are equally spiritually inferior and can be enslaved. https://t.co/KXiplloXLo

    13K5.6K684556337K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20265.6x their median

    The Israeli military acknowledged firing on a car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza after earlier denials as it opens a criminal probe into the January 2024 killing. https://t.co/447KgMpwoI https://t.co/YxLo7b45eQ

    14K4.8K6527333.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20264.2x their median

    35-year-old Israeli arrested in Greece for allegedly causing a wildfire on Crete https://t.co/g5xajJSGVb

    10K3.2K5557727.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20263.9x their median

    Imran Khan is being moved to hospital due to severely deteriorating health in Pakistani prison. His "crime" was refusing to bow to zionism

    10K3.1K20471141K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20263.8x their median

    The Israeli military acknowledged firing on a car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza after earlier denials as it opens a criminal probe into the January 2024 killing. https://t.co/ic0oVIgw2J https://t.co/jTiRsqPztA

    8.8K3.3K5735652.7M 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 3.5K interactions against 963K followers, an engagement rate of 0.365%. Measured over 44 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 3,774 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 127K times each, and 2.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 13.2% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 44 posts sampled, 66% carry an image or video and 27% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 42K interactions, about 12x its own typical post.

What is Shaun King's engagement rate on X?
Shaun King (@shaunking) has an engagement rate of 0.365%, based on the median interactions across 44 original posts from the last 30 days against 963,318 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.365%, Shaun King sits above the 50th 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 @shaunking have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @shaunking post?
Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 5.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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