Fareed Zakaria engagement report
@FareedZakaria - 1.5M followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 367 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 3,809 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 50K times each, and 0.737% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 62% carry an image or video and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.4K interactions, about 23x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Fareed Zakaria's engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 43% 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 0.025%, Fareed Zakaria sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,852 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 18:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 16, 202623x their median
For decades, Sweden was known for its inclusive welfare state and its strong voice on human rights. But recently, the country has come to resemble something very different: an ultra-capitalist haven, with an increasingly tough approach on immigration. I explained what changed: https://t.co/Z3epDw8IBl
- Aug 9, 202611x their median
Democrats are facing a dilemma: The left has the passion, but the middle still has the votes the party needs to win in general elections. To win, Democrats don’t need to move left on economics. They need to move to the center on cultural issues. My take: https://t.co/5kyDsei6UH
- Aug 2, 20266.5x their median
President Trump's tariffs have made the US into a paragon of protectionism. The result has been higher prices, weaker investment, fewer manufacturing jobs — and a willingness to make falsehood official policy in order to defend a failed economic creed. My take: https://t.co/SXLshuZQbh
- Jul 31, 20266.5x their median
The result of President Trump’s tariffs has not been a manufacturing renaissance. It has been higher prices, weaker investment, fewer manufacturing jobs — and a willingness to make falsehood official policy in order to defend a failed economic creed. My latest column: https://t.co/8MoZgoguBD
- Aug 14, 20265.7x their median
For eight decades, the U.S. built up something as powerful as aircraft carriers and squadrons of F-35s: credibility. The Iran war has been a master class in how to squander it. My latest column: https://t.co/HFo9O71vv8
- Jul 26, 20265.2x their median
Iran's economy has been pummeled by war and sanctions. So why has that country not been compelled to make peace? The answer lies in part in Tehran's surprising degree of economic resilience: https://t.co/FLRTy7UhQ3
- Aug 16, 20264.7x their median
From the war with Iran to dealings with allies, President Trump has put on a master class in how to squander credibility. Now countries are building insurance policies. It's evidence of a deepening loss of faith in America’s word. My take: https://t.co/KKKMZrl3jm
- Aug 23, 20263.1x their median
China spends a fraction of what the US does on data centers, and lacks the most advanced AI chips. Why, then, does its AI industry appear to be catching up, and rivaling Silicon Valley? I asked @NewYorker staff writer @eosnos who lived in China for eight years, and just returned from another reporting trip there with some fresh insights:
- Aug 2, 20263.1x their median
Hungary's longtime strongman Viktor Orbán spent 16 years building one of the world’s most prominent illiberal democracies. Now, the country’s new prime minister, Péter Magyar, is trying to tear that old system down. Can he do this while sticking to democratic norms? My thoughts:
- Aug 23, 20263.1x their median
I went to see “The Odyssey” and have thoughts on what liberals can take away from Christopher Nolan’s film. The moral progress of the West has been one of its greatest achievements. But that does not mean that ambition and heroism must be set aside. My take: https://t.co/kG9yN8vcyq
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 367 interactions against 1.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.025%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 3,809 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 50K times each, and 0.737% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.42% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 62% carry an image or video and 15% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 8.4K interactions, about 23x its own typical post.
- What is Fareed Zakaria's engagement rate on X?
- Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) has an engagement rate of 0.025%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,455,451 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.025%, Fareed Zakaria sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,852 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 @FareedZakaria have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 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 @FareedZakaria post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.