Ted Cruz engagement report
@tedcruz - 7.1M followers on X
Measured over 153 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 922 interactions against 7.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 153 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% 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 57K times each, and 1.61% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.808% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 21.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 153 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 52% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 109K interactions, about 118x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #txsen, #2a, #icymi.
Measured over 153 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 28, 2026. Recurring tags: #txsen, #2a, #icymi.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ted Cruz's engagement rate beats 37% 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 60% 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 0.013%, Ted Cruz sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,349 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 | 0.696% |
| 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 19:00 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% | 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 | 93% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 52% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 93% 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.
- 52% 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 327 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
- Oct 17, 2026118x their median
We are witnessing Islamists right now burning Paris because Europe has committed cultural suicide. We should look to France as foreshadowing for what America faces if we don’t stop this here. We are fighting to save our nation. https://t.co/DYvaM5i7nj
- Oct 24, 2026111x their median
I got this joke when I was 8. The internet revealed to me that there are now 20 years old who don’t get it. https://t.co/I0O0uNBNvn
- Aug 18, 202678x their median
Now, listen to me very carefully! So far, I’ve spoken with: 2 Former NBA players 3 G-League players 3 European players They have all said that if the @WNBA doesn’t change the rules, they’re ready to join the movement and are considering coming out as women and putting their names in the 2027 #WNBA Draft. Hear me out; The @NBA G- League pays players $45,000 a year, while the #WNBA top players earn $1.4 Million. Those “men” could earn an extra $1,355,000 a year by just identifying as women. Rules are rules. #LetFreedomPlay
- Aug 14, 202624x their median
"White women, college: +23 El-Sayed" SNL predicted this back in 2015 https://t.co/XlHzQL4Fb6
- Oct 8, 202658x their median
Marvel has announced a new spy thriller series ‘ZODIAC’. Releasing in 2028. https://t.co/hVzOXlR2Lk
- Oct 8, 202654x their median
BREAKING: @WillieNelson endorses James Talarico: “I've gotten to know James Talarico. He's a good man, who will be a good senator for the state of Texas. Please vote and vote for James Talarico.“ https://t.co/FD2nYpVrSU
- Aug 13, 202653x their median
I’m the only option to remove this parasite from office. A vote for anyone else is a vote for Fine. https://t.co/Z6XBRLV2co
- Jul 6, 202640x their median
I’ve been very clear that sexual assault or violence against women is a red line. These allegations are very serious and credible. Graham Platner should drop out from the race. I am withdrawing my endorsement.
- Aug 14, 202637x their median
Kentucky Derby Convenes Committee To Determine What Is A Horse https://t.co/WAsSMraCGP
- Aug 14, 202631x their median
Meet MI Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s sister This is what she thinks of the U.S. She’s also a professor at @UChicago. Why is @UChicago employing this radical lunatic who wants America to burn? https://t.co/W5dsXK8MHD
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 922 interactions against 7.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 153 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% 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 57K times each, and 1.61% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.808% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 21.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 153 posts sampled, 93% carry an image or video and 52% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 109K interactions, about 118x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #txsen, #2a, #icymi.
- What is Ted Cruz's engagement rate on X?
- Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 153 original posts from the last 30 days against 7,065,837 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.013%, Ted Cruz sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,349 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 @tedcruz have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 37% 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 @tedcruz post?
- Most posts go out around 19:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 21.57 posts per day across the measured window.