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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
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
- Aug 24, 202629x their median
76 percent in Canada say ending US trade negotiations was right call: Survey https://t.co/6db0TGQbe2
- Aug 24, 202620x their median
Rep. Al Green files articles of impeachment against Trump again https://t.co/biiOkJwgWM
- Aug 19, 202620x their median
Democrats demand Medicaid stop sharing info with ICE https://t.co/3KFMslxtWm
- Aug 31, 202619x their median
Pentagon erupts over classified leak of Iran war dissent https://t.co/GiqLumgDLv
- Aug 17, 202611x their median
#BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Trump’s long-shot effort to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict https://t.co/oXZ1VKW8KE
- Aug 29, 202611x their median
Democrats sound alarm on US-Venezuela oil deal: ‘This isn’t a win’ https://t.co/6CGjD2Vbi3
- Aug 18, 20269.0x their median
#BREAKING: Trump-endorsed Lauf loses GOP primary for open Donalds seat in Florida https://t.co/W6qJZi6FZa
- 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
- Aug 25, 20266.9x their median
Pirro hit with bar complaint over bid to indict Democrats in illegal orders video https://t.co/FOCcPREyIx
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 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.