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Anderson Cooper 360° engagement report

@AC360 - 1.5M followers on X

Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 27, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.028%
of 1.5M followers
Per impression
1.33%
31K views on a typical post
Reach
2.13%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
416
interactions (median)
Saved
0.058%
18 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.87/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
01:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 416 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.028%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 50% of 21,185 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 31K times each, and 1.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 63x its own typical post.

Measured over 56 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 27, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Anderson Cooper 360°'s engagement rate beats 50% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 55% 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%, Anderson Cooper 360° sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,482 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.146%.

p100.004%
p250.025%
p50 (median)0.146%
p750.696%
p902.61%
p9982.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 212,482 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,403 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.025%
50th percentile0.146%
75th percentile0.696%
90th percentile2.61%
99th percentile82.9%

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 01:00 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.

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: 01:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 01:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link2% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 2% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 255 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Sep 10, 202663x their median

    Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon says the AI industry is "gambling with our lives." He tells Anderson what he finds "most scary is if AI is used to make itself more intelligent" and warns these companies are "compelled to race toward building a deadly technology." https://t.co/UFrLWVm0xD

    16K4.8K9097852.5M viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 202619x their median

    Priya Adhikari is Nepal's first female helicopter captain and she's flown over 100 rescue missions in the wake of the devastating flood. Anderson speaks with her about what she's witnessed. https://t.co/3YYXHZA60J

    5.4K1.2K116121762K viewsView on X
  • Oct 21, 202618x their median

    Alyssa Farah Griffin slams a controversial new ad from Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy as "the grossest ad I can think of" warning it "will absolutely backfire" and "anyone behind it should be ashamed." https://t.co/qWAGMGyeOB

    5.3K76411825153K viewsView on X
  • Sep 22, 202616x their median

    Major TV networks stand with CNN and pull the plug on covering President Trump after his ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico. https://t.co/BZO4UMg10c

    4.6K77226939143K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 202615x their median

    Texans from both political parties are decrying the Trump Administration's construction of a border security project in Big Bend National Park. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports. https://t.co/6gMqSJ5CUI

    3.9K1.3K1425286K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 202612x their median

    New York Times investigative reporter David Fahrenthold says they've connected the dots between the failed reflecting pool restoration, a manager at one of President Trump's golf courses and no-bid government contracts. https://t.co/EVYWGyhr5g

    3.2K1.1K5133105K viewsView on X
  • Sep 30, 20267.4x their median

    GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt's trap for Jack Smith backfired after getting a theory about a basketball game wrong. Schmitt then clashed with Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who says her point was "don't call someone a dirtbag when you don't have your own facts right." https://t.co/hpAGQZKaea

    2.1K451771251K viewsView on X
  • Sep 17, 20266.8x their median

    The latest on the battle over The Kennedy Center, from Democratic Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty. She's the lone board member of the performing arts venue fighting the Trump administration in court. https://t.co/gGxLcAqvcH

    1.8K493722147K viewsView on X
  • Oct 13, 20266.7x their median

    Eric Deters says he will sue Amb. Kimberly Guilfoyle and her attorneys for defamation. He alleges to have text messages in which Guilfoyle requested he pay off her personal American Express card before she was confirmed as the ambassador to Greece. https://t.co/QCFJNEXNDy

    1.9K44140962K viewsView on X
  • Oct 2, 20266.3x their median

    Daniel Schlichter was in the second row of Flydubai flight 1073 when he says a woman screamed "somebody's stabbing the pilot." That's when he heard a violent altercation happening in the cockpit and it was clear something was very wrong. https://t.co/6a7yKgsoLN

    1.7K36111825169K 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 416 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.028%. Measured over 56 original posts, its engagement rate beats 50% of 21,185 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 31K times each, and 1.33% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.13% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 56 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 63x its own typical post.

What is Anderson Cooper 360°'s engagement rate on X?
Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) has an engagement rate of 0.028%, based on the median interactions across 56 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,466,792 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.028%, Anderson Cooper 360° sits above the 25th percentile of the 212,482 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 @AC360 have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 50% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @AC360 post?
Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.

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