Bassem Youssef engagement report
@Byoussef - 9.9M followers on X
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 233 interactions against 9.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 3,739 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 68K times each, and 0.342% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.689% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.2K interactions, about 22x its own typical post.
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tag: #spiderman.
Compared with accounts its own size
Bassem Youssef's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 30% 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 0.002%, Bassem Youssef sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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 15:00 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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Dec 12, 202422x their median
This is my only account on Twitter . I am sick and tired of people posting clearly fake accounts as mine . ده حسابي الوحيد على تويتر . أنا زهقت من كمية الناس اللي بتنشر حسابات تانية على انها بتاعتي وواضح جدا انها مزيفة .
- Aug 27, 20268.0x their median
I apologize to all the wonderful fans in Australia and New Zealand. We were required to submit documents. In this video, I explain what happened. The shoes are not cancelled. They are just being moved till we apply again. We will announce the new dates soon. Thank you so much. https://t.co/0XAtc5BJLz
- Jul 4, 20267.1x their median
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- Aug 9, 20264.3x their median
This video is in Arabic, but since you are here, come to my English stand-up comedy shows See where I am going Perth, 27 Aug Adelaide, 29 Aug Brisbane, 2 Sep Melbourne, 4 Sep Sydney, 5 Sep Auckland, 8 Sep New York, 18 Sep Tickets on https://t.co/dFhdLiCkot https://t.co/2TkB3E1Eea
- Jul 13, 20262.8x their median
Turning Point ... Red Line Watch the full interview on my YouTube channel See where I am going Jacksonville, 17 - 18 Jul Denver, 30 - 31 Jul & 1 Aug Perth, 27 Aug Adelaide, 29 Aug Brisbane, 2 Sep Melbourne, 4 Sep Sydney, 5 Sep Auckland, 8 Sep Tickets on https://t.co/dFhdLiCSe1 https://t.co/dbjTszmxUu
- Jul 3, 20262.0x their median
The conversation you've been waiting to hear. Part one of my interview with @DanBilzerian is coming soon 🎙️ See where I am Going Next Jacksonville, 17 - 18 Jul Denver, 30 - 31 Jul & 1 Aug Perth, 27 Aug Adelaide, 29 Aug Get your tickets from https://t.co/dFhdLiCSe1 https://t.co/CoYszbzeAd
- Jul 22, 20262.0x their median
This is the GDP of a Nation Watch the full interview on my YouTube channel See where I am going Denver, 30 - 31 Jul & 1 Aug Perth, 27 Aug Adelaide, 29 Aug Brisbane, 2 Sep Melbourne, 4 Sep Sydney, 5 Sep Auckland, 8 Sep New York, 18 Sep Tickets on https://t.co/dFhdLiCSe1 https://t.co/9ZfNxt7UfE
- Jul 19, 20261.9x their median
That is the problem with the system ... It's broken Watch the full interview on my YouTube channel See where I am going Jacksonville, 17 - 18 Jul Denver, 30 - 31 Jul & 1 Aug Perth, 27 Aug Adelaide, 29 Aug Brisbane, 2 Sep Melbourne, 4 Sep Tickets on https://t.co/dFhdLiCkot https://t.co/OjqthX7xIp
- Aug 10, 20261.6x their median
Fair warning: This one's in Arabic. But if you speak English, come join me at my standup shows See where I am going Perth, 27 Aug Adelaide, 29 Aug Brisbane, 2 Sep Melbourne, 4 Sep Sydney, 5 Sep Auckland, 8 Sep New York, 18 Sep Boston, 19 Sep Tickets on https://t.co/dFhdLiCSe1 https://t.co/JePuIFOgkv
- Jul 24, 20261.5x their median
Who is included in Jewish supremacy? Watch the full interview on my YouTube channel See where I am going Denver, 30 - 31 Jul & 1 Aug Perth, 27 Aug Adelaide, 29 Aug Brisbane, 2 Sep Melbourne, 4 Sep Sydney, 5 Sep Auckland, 8 Sep New York, 18 Sep Tickets on https://t.co/dFhdLiCkot https://t.co/tkr2gnfJxH
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 233 interactions against 9.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 3,739 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 68K times each, and 0.342% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.689% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.57 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 5.2K interactions, about 22x its own typical post.
- What is Bassem Youssef's engagement rate on X?
- Bassem Youssef (@Byoussef) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 17 original posts from the last 30 days against 9,885,825 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Bassem Youssef sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @Byoussef have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @Byoussef post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.57 posts per day across the measured window.