Stern Show engagement report
@sternshow - 714K followers on X
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 88 interactions against 714K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% of 3,848 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 0.326% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.97 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 36% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.4K interactions, about 61x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sternshow, #howard100, #spiderman.
Measured over 28 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #sternshow, #howard100, #spiderman.
Compared with accounts its own size
Stern Show's engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 25% 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 0.012%, Stern Show sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,214 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.436% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.2% |
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 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 80K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 88K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 103K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 86K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 81K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 234K |
| Monday | 0% | 294K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 288K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 247K |
| Friday | -3% | 256K |
| Saturday | +3% | 230K |
Best tweets
- Jul 17, 202661x their median
Howard tests the creators of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” to see if any actor can be connected back to Kevin Bacon. Get more #SternShow games and trivia now on #Howard100! https://t.co/aLQez8pfSn
- Aug 25, 202619x their median
Dolly Parton demonstrated how she wrote “9 to 5” on her fingernails during her interview with Howard Stern. Get more of Dolly's #SternShow interview here: https://t.co/QjQl4kECoQ https://t.co/QMLfvJ72jR
- Jul 29, 202614x their median
Watch @EddieVedder perform Glen Hansard’s “Song of Good Hope” live on the #SternShow. https://t.co/wmOv3nVXYi
- Jul 9, 202613x their median
Happy Birthday to the wonderful Fred Norris! https://t.co/3qUSMtCL9s
- Aug 6, 202612x their median
“You’re not allowed to actually thrust your hips,” Jon Bernthal gave Howard the details on filming sex scenes on #TheWalkingDead during his 2017 visit to the #SternShow. Watch the interview now on YouTube: https://t.co/jHU55JsJXd https://t.co/fo2lpn7N9j
- Aug 27, 202611x their median
Who is the best actor Josh Brolin has ever worked with? He named two of the “greats” while chatting with Howard Stern in 2024. https://t.co/gqTAf1pe5X
- Aug 1, 202610x their median
Jon Bernthal told Howard about the “single most important event” of his life while visiting the #SternShow in 2017. Watch the interview now on Youtube: https://t.co/jHU55JsJXd https://t.co/Ig9vSCZ8ao
- Jul 13, 20268.2x their median
Is squirt pee? Sam Fontana hit the streets to find out. https://t.co/xpbujyGLMb
- Aug 14, 20266.5x their median
Courtney Love talks about the meaning behind Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box," her complex relationship with Kurt Cobain, and what his life might have looked like had he survived. Tune in for more stories about music icons – airing all week on #Howard100. https://t.co/e9AbbLWs99
- Aug 29, 20265.4x their median
Sebastian Maniscalco tells Howard Stern what went through his mind the first time he went to a restaurant with Jerry Seinfeld. Watch his 2019 #SternShow interview now on YouTube: https://t.co/VgFZtswHq7 https://t.co/o2qQeMmmTA
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
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 88 interactions against 714K followers, an engagement rate of 0.012%. Measured over 28 original posts, its engagement rate beats 36% of 3,848 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 0.326% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.97 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 28 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 36% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.4K interactions, about 61x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #sternshow, #howard100, #spiderman.
- What is Stern Show's engagement rate on X?
- Stern Show (@sternshow) has an engagement rate of 0.012%, based on the median interactions across 28 original posts from the last 30 days against 714,401 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.012%, Stern Show sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,214 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 @sternshow have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 36% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,848 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 @sternshow post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.97 posts per day across the measured window.