Media Research Center engagement report
@theMRC - 280K followers on X
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 40 interactions against 280K followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 21,397 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 2.3K times each, and 1.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.806% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video, 28% are part of a thread and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 125 interactions, about 3.1x its own typical post.
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Media Research Center's engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,397 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 58% 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 0.014%, Media Research Center sits above the 10th percentile of the 214,287 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 | 0.147% |
| 75th percentile | 0.701% |
| 90th percentile | 2.62% |
| 99th percentile | 82.9% |
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 13:00 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 | 83% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 17% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 83% 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.
- 17% 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 238 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
- Oct 18, 20263.1x their median
CBS News veteran Jan Crawford apologized Sunday for a social media post about a political town hall that clearly violated the standards of any legacy newsroom....but the imbroglio comes as CBS News has embraced more opinion and commentary... https://t.co/XxX3muYkQb
- Oct 19, 20262.5x their median
WATCH: CNN's London bureau revives the "mostly peaceful" descriptor for France's fiery protests, omits looting footage CHRISTINA MACFARLANE: Half a million people participated in the demonstrations, which political leaders stress were mostly peaceful. More than 2000 people have been detained by police in connection with Saturday's violence, and at least two deaths have been linked to the protests.
- Oct 21, 20262.4x their median
The Biden administration used $750,000 in taxpayer money to help blacklist conservative media. NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index pushed advertisers to cut off disfavored outlets. MRC President @DavidBozell breaks down how it worked with @BillOReilly. https://t.co/OUWglIvDO0
- Oct 16, 20262.3x their median
Karine Jean-Pierre is on CNN critiquing the new press secretary. MRC graded KJP's own 2023 briefings: she answered 8 of 337 Biden scandal questions. Two percent. https://t.co/Om8pa8AMpl
- Oct 19, 20262.2x their median
🚨SPECIAL REPORT:🚨 Apple and Google News are keeping readers from learning anything that could damage Peggy Flanagan's Senate campaign. Apple News and Google News have become powerful gatekeepers of information. The tech titan news aggregators largely determine which stories attract national attention and which get buried, all the while routinely elevating left-leaning outlets and shunning right-leaning alternatives.
- Sep 18, 20262.0x their median
Lindsay Clancy juror giggles as she admits that the jurors who voted Clancy as not guilty really just wanted to get people talking. They cared more about the publicity than justice for the murdered children. https://t.co/gSSIRCYvSk
- Sep 19, 20261.8x their median
"Everyday we are seeing examples of illegal aliens that have committed crimes or are accused of crimes, and the media doesn't pay any attention to it." @GriffJenkins applauds MRC's study exposing the media ignoring violent crimes committed by illegals. https://t.co/WUHDEw1AbC
- Sep 3, 20261.7x their median
Abby Phillip is so close to realizing that we actually do need secure borders: Phillip: "There's zero distinction between an American murdered by an illegal alien versus being murdered by another American." Lyman: "It's preventable when it's an illegal alien." Phillip: "It's preventable when it's done by anyone." https://t.co/pKf26D4Ayy
- Oct 15, 20261.7x their median
We found Ken Dilanian’s source. https://t.co/B3fL7b7gEg
- Sep 18, 20261.5x their median
President Trump doubles down on his ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House: "They purposely write negative news. They do that because they want to diminish the Republicans and a Republican administration." https://t.co/9Dq3W61cYc
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 40 interactions against 280K followers, an engagement rate of 0.014%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% of 21,397 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 2.3K times each, and 1.77% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.806% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 83% carry an image or video, 28% are part of a thread and 17% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 125 interactions, about 3.1x its own typical post.
- What is Media Research Center's engagement rate on X?
- Media Research Center (@theMRC) has an engagement rate of 0.014%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 280,438 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.014%, Media Research Center sits above the 10th percentile of the 214,287 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 @theMRC have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,397 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 @theMRC post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.07 posts per day across the measured window.