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The Hill engagement report

@thehill - 4.2M followers on X

Measured over 425 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom quarter for its size
Per follower
0.001%
of 4.2M followers
Per impression
0.239%
12K views on a typical post
Reach
0.29%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
29
interactions (median)
Saved
0.017%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
14.17/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 29 interactions against 4.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 425 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,758 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 12K times each, and 0.239% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.289% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 14.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 425 posts sampled, 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.2K interactions, about 77x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breaking, #karolineleavitt, #press.

Measured over 425 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #breaking, #karolineleavitt, #press.

Compared with accounts its own size

The Hill's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 22% 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%, The Hill sits below 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 20:00 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: 20:00 UTC.
0003060912151821
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 20:00 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 25, 202677x their median

    Hillary Clinton says Republicans ‘secretly cheering’ for Mark Carney amid US-Canada trade negotiation https://t.co/wtdvVvzHhn

    1.7K2922133494K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202629x their median

    76 percent in Canada say ending US trade negotiations was right call: Survey https://t.co/6db0TGQbe2

    64410878945K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 202620x their median

    Rep. Al Green files articles of impeachment against Trump again https://t.co/biiOkJwgWM

    43280571335K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 202620x their median

    Democrats demand Medicaid stop sharing info with ICE https://t.co/3KFMslxtWm

    2316321666432K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 202619x their median

    Pentagon erupts over classified leak of Iran war dissent https://t.co/GiqLumgDLv

    402110391160K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 202611x their median

    #BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Trump’s long-shot effort to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict https://t.co/oXZ1VKW8KE

    2544134340K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202611x their median

    Democrats sound alarm on US-Venezuela oil deal: ‘This isn’t a win’ https://t.co/6CGjD2Vbi3

    2056162323K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20269.0x their median

    #BREAKING: Trump-endorsed Lauf loses GOP primary for open Donalds seat in Florida https://t.co/W6qJZi6FZa

    209386758K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 20267.2x their median

    Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library says it will keep sending free books to kids. Here’s how to sign up https://t.co/Z2YhFTFWPN

    15847218.8K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20266.9x their median

    Pirro hit with bar complaint over bid to indict Democrats in illegal orders video https://t.co/FOCcPREyIx

    151416315K 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

#breaking#karolineleavitt#press#presssecretary#trump

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 29 interactions against 4.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Measured over 425 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,758 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 12K times each, and 0.239% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.289% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 14.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 425 posts sampled, 98% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.2K interactions, about 77x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #breaking, #karolineleavitt, #press.

What is The Hill's engagement rate on X?
The Hill (@thehill) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 425 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,201,110 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.001%, The Hill sits below 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 @thehill have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @thehill post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 14.17 posts per day across the measured window.

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