stern engagement report
@sternde - 1.2M followers on X
Measured over 882 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 5 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 882 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 21,185 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 2.2K times each, and 0.232% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.174% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 29.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 882 posts sampled, 5% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.1K interactions, about 426x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #linken, #christianlindner, #israel.
Measured over 882 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #linken, #christianlindner, #israel.
Compared with accounts its own size
stern's engagement rate beats 6% 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 16% 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 under 0.001%, stern sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,078 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 | 0.694% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.1% |
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 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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 | 5% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 5% 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.
- 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 171 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below 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
- Oct 7, 2026426x their median
Boris Pistorius ruft zum Widerstand gegen die AfD auf – und begeistert die SPD. Mit seinem Manöver überraschte er die gesamte Parteispitze. Wie kam es dazu? Eine Rekonstruktion: https://t.co/b1az6Kz8Yx https://t.co/60IRehf6Nz
- Oct 21, 2026363x their median
Fast eine halbe Million Dokumente der AfD sind durch einen Hack öffentlich geworden. Daran lässt sich die Radikalisierung der Partei ablesen. https://t.co/G6BVzLk82V
- Oct 26, 2026258x their median
Seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 hat #Israel an allen Fronten fremdes Territorium besetzt. Der stern zeigt, wie das Land seinen Nachbarn damit systematisch die Lebensgrundlage zerstört. https://t.co/4KZu2Xe7A2 https://t.co/fba5etoI8O
- Oct 8, 2026222x their median
Manuela Schwesig gefiel es laut eines Berichts gar nicht, wie Kanzler Merz sie bei einem Treffen angeht. Also dreht sie sich weg und lässt ihn stehen. https://t.co/P7p3haH2sn
- Oct 5, 2026167x their median
Äußert sich in Deutschland ein Anständiger, wird er sofort verleumdet und beschimpft. Unsere Kolumnistin will sich nicht länger spalten lassen. https://t.co/ELuctfc375
- Oct 15, 2026122x their median
ZDF-Satiriker Fabian Köster wurde von einem Streamer im Landtag von Sachsen-Anhalt verfolgt und bedrängt. Nun soll der Fall aufgearbeitet werden. https://t.co/r8iaHkcLjp
- Oct 9, 202692x their median
Elon Musk soll dem AfD-Landtagspräsidenten in Sachsen-Anhalt einen Dienstwagen besorgen. Auf Musk konnte sich die Partei schon öfter verlassen. https://t.co/dlPgY4NxoC
- Oct 7, 202685x their median
Boris Pistorius ruft zum Widerstand gegen die AfD – und begeistert die SPD. Sein Manöver überrascht die Parteispitze. Wie kam es dazu? Eine Rekonstruktion. https://t.co/MJ7VZneYdm
- Oct 24, 202683x their median
Das Datenleak der AfD offenbart mutmaßlich die interne Kommunikation der Partei. Besonders deutlich wurde es, wenn der Absender „Alice Weidel“ lautete. https://t.co/YkEMNZVwS7
- Oct 27, 202680x their median
#Israel hat seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 an allen Fronten fremdes Territorium besetzt. Der stern zeigt, wie das Land seinen Nachbarn damit systematisch die Lebensgrundlage zerstört. https://t.co/aSRgnLQboX https://t.co/T39TByfn3w
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 5 interactions against 1.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 882 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 21,185 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 2.2K times each, and 0.232% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.174% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 29.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 882 posts sampled, 5% carry an image or video and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.1K interactions, about 426x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #linken, #christianlindner, #israel.
- What is stern's engagement rate on X?
- stern (@sternde) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 882 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,240,472 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At under 0.001%, stern sits below the 10th percentile of the 212,078 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 @sternde have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 10% 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 @sternde post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 29.43 posts per day across the measured window.