unusual_whales engagement report
@unusual_whales - 5.3M followers on X
Measured over 374 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.5K interactions against 5.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.028%. Measured over 374 original posts, its engagement rate beats 64% of 3,739 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 180K times each, and 0.81% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 16.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 374 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video, 20% are part of a thread and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 27K interactions, about 19x its own typical post.
Measured over 374 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
unusual_whales's engagement rate beats 64% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 51% 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 0.028%, unusual_whales sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 22, 202619x their median
Fully remote workers report the highest well-being, and are less likely to quit, per FORTUNE
- Aug 23, 202615x their median
BREAKING: The number of U.S. service members reported wounded or killed in the Iran war has jumped to 774, per WaPo
- Aug 28, 202614x their median
BREAKING: Donald Trump’s war on Iran has driven the US military into a severe financial crisis, with the US navy forced to transfer money from its payroll, per the Guardian
- Aug 17, 202614x their median
Mitch McConnell 'absolutely refuses' to film a video, per Governor Andy Beshear
- Aug 14, 202613x their median
BREAKING: Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei’s wife, Cami Clark, reportedly started what she called a 'revolutionary porn company' where she sought investment from Jeffrey Epstein, per WSJ
- Aug 27, 202612x their median
JUST IN: Florida becomes the first state to block welfare cash from being spent on tattoos, theme park tickets, video games, vapes, & other non-essential purchases.
- Aug 16, 202612x their median
BREAKING: The White House is reportedly discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings, per Marjorie Taylor Greene
- Aug 13, 202612x their median
"The stress of being poor can cause longterm damage to the brain," per WaPo
- Aug 24, 202611x their median
BREAKING: The U.S. is preparing to rescind up to 200,000 business and tourism visas in the largest mass visa revocation ever, per AP
- Aug 30, 202610x their median
BREAKING: US Senator Bernie Sanders says he will introduce a bill to ban Flock cameras.
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 1.5K interactions against 5.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.028%. Measured over 374 original posts, its engagement rate beats 64% of 3,739 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 180K times each, and 0.81% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 16.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 67% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 374 posts sampled, 17% carry an image or video, 20% are part of a thread and 7% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 27K interactions, about 19x its own typical post.
- What is unusual_whales's engagement rate on X?
- unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) has an engagement rate of 0.028%, based on the median interactions across 374 original posts from the last 30 days against 5,273,656 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.028%, unusual_whales sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @unusual_whales have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 64% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @unusual_whales post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 16.83 posts per day across the measured window.