Face The Nation engagement report
@FaceTheNation - 515K followers on X
Measured over 36 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 34 interactions against 515K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 36 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% 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 7.5K times each, and 0.455% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.45% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 36 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 71x its own typical post.
Measured over 36 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 18, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Face The Nation's engagement rate beats 28% 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 28% 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 0.007%, Face The Nation sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,741 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.697% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 82.8% |
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 Sunday 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 75% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 25% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 75% 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.
- 25% 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 331 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
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
- Aug 16, 202671x their median
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) says “it’s time” to abolish the Electoral College, arguing “in Kentucky, we will never see a candidate for president or vice president unless they're from here.” “Why? Because people just expect that it'll go one way or the other,” Beshear says. “It's the idea that someone would get elected not just knowing about seven states, but having to earn votes all over the United States.”
- Aug 16, 202616x their median
Democratic nominee for Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District State Rep. Chris Rabb, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, says he and Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) “have a lot more in common than people would think.” When asked about Beshear referring to socialism as a failed experiment, Rabb says varying political views “have molded us into the nation we are today,” and the U.S. “is not a purely capitalistic society.” “This is something that we have to understand…it is an evolution,” he adds. “Pure capitalism has never worked. Communism is not something that we have seen effectively work.”
- Aug 23, 202612x their median
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz says a third of Americans who get prescriptions “leave empty-handed from the drugstore because our drugs cost much more than they cost in other countries.” Dr. Oz says that’s why the Trump administration pursued the most-favored-nation deals with pharmaceutical companies. “We are not telling companies what they can charge,” he says. “We are saying whatever you charge overseas, you got to charge here. No more of this global freeloading. And thankfully, the 17 companies representing 85% of the drug sector all came onboard.” “Medicare beneficiaries are rapidly getting access to these deals…,” he adds. “Medicare beneficiaries have full access to some of the drugs, like the fertility drugs.”
- Aug 30, 202611x their median
The FBI has quietly changed its hiring standards and no longer automatically disqualifies applicants who admit to hiring prostitutes or stealing from an employer. It comes following the retirement, resignation and termination of scores of FBI agents during the second Trump administration. https://t.co/E3VrIow2pO
- Aug 16, 20268.5x their median
When asked whether there should be a congressional investigation into the USS Abraham Lincoln and what occurred during its nearly nine-month deployment after some families voiced concerns about conditions on the ship, including mental health issues, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) says, “We should have oversight.” “We should bring in the secretary of the Navy and/or…the service chief of the Navy and have them explain to us the truth on that,” Bacon says.
- Sep 13, 20267.2x their median
Ahead of an expected meeting between President Trump and China’s Xi Jinping, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the U.S. and China should pursue an agreement not to use AI to develop biological weapons and, longer term, consider a “speed limit” on the pace of AI development. Amodei tells @JoLingKent that reaching such an agreement would be “very difficult,” but “we should try.”
- Aug 16, 20267.2x their median
A new @CBSNewsPoll finds 58% of Democrats have a positive view of socialism, and just 32% have a positive view of capitalism. “I believe socialism is a failed experiment but I do believe that we need to get results for the American people,” Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) says. https://t.co/5i5jb5dmpQ
- Aug 23, 20267.2x their median
The U.S. economy is entering uncharted territory. The national debt hit a record $40 trillion last week, while persistent inflation fears rattled financial markets and pushed borrowing costs to their highest levels in two decades. The Treasury Department stepped in midweek to provide relief, but by Friday, borrowing costs had climbed back to where they were.
- Sep 8, 20267.1x their median
Congratulations to @FaceTheNation Moderator @margbrennan for being named a 2026 prize of excellence awardee by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA (@ForeignPressUSA). Read more: https://t.co/oV6OmHXJ7h https://t.co/3xnW3QRarj
- Aug 30, 20266.8x their median
As the U.S. and Canada prepare tit-for-tat tariffs after trade negotiations broke down, Republican gubernatorial nominee for Michigan Rep. John James (R-MI) says negotiators should “go back to the table, stop acting like children, and negotiate a fair, mutually beneficial reciprocal deal that will benefit the United States of America and Michigan.” When asked by @margbrennan whether he would ask the White House to back down from the tariffs, he says, “We're already talking with members of the trade team, and we'll be continuing to engage with them so we can avoid those things…It cannot be borne on the backs of Michiganders.”
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 34 interactions against 515K followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 36 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% 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 7.5K times each, and 0.455% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.45% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 30% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 36 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.4K interactions, about 71x its own typical post.
- What is Face The Nation's engagement rate on X?
- Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 36 original posts from the last 30 days against 515,151 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, Face The Nation sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,741 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 @FaceTheNation have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 28% 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 @FaceTheNation post?
- Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 2 posts per day across the measured window.