HuffPost Politics engagement report
@HuffPostPol - 1.3M followers on X
Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 5 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 10 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 4.7K times each, and 0.214% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.365% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.6K interactions, about 961x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.001%, HuffPost Politics sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 03:00 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% | 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 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% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Jun 23, 2026961x their median
JUST IN: Aliya Rahman, the Minneapolis woman whose image went viral after ICE agents dragged her out of her car on her way to a doc appointment, just hit DHS with a federal complaint alleging its officers violated disability and human rights laws. https://t.co/I5Hr7NKqDT
- Jul 29, 2026119x their median
NEW from me: A senior Trump official is using his govt social media account to smear sitting federal judges, sparking accusations he's putting their safety at risk as judges already face a spike in threats. This “puts a bullseye” on em, one judge told me. https://t.co/M0x2wKchLI
- Jul 29, 202614x their median
NEW -- Trump keeps claiming that Iran is "desperate" for a deal. It's not true. How do we know? Because the purported "dealmaker-in-chief" explained to the whole world just six weeks ago why Iran has all the leverage. https://t.co/INwqHab4JB
- Jun 30, 20268.5x their median
It was just last week that Ken Paxton was a big advocate of IVF. “I am a strong supporter of IVF and pro-family policies," the Texas Senate GOP nominee told HuffPost. Now he's suddenly walking that back, calling for "restrictions." https://t.co/lIb6AMwWFw
- Jul 23, 20265.8x their median
It's been 39 days since anyone has publicly seen Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). I asked his office for any updates on his mysterious health condition or his plans to return to the Senate, and got... a statement from 11 days ago. https://t.co/fGaswKwKyY
- Jul 24, 20264.7x their median
The Reflecting Pool Perp case could be an even bigger embarrassment than Sandwich Guy, @jamieson reports https://t.co/XJmU7kOpeL
- Aug 12, 20264.0x their median
Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder and conspiracy theorist, lost in his race to claim the GOP nomination for Minnesota governor. https://t.co/XyeevS8Mmg
- Jul 24, 20264.0x their median
Texas provided no evidence that Houston-based midwife Maria Rojas violated the state’s abortion ban, a state appeals court ruled. https://t.co/XsrhVxTF4j
- Jul 17, 20263.2x their median
He's clearly mad he didn't get airtime. https://t.co/hcQnihW1hD
- Jun 9, 20263.2x their median
The Texas senator, who said James Talarico isn’t “masculine” and couldn’t handle “a stiff breeze,” once fled to Cancun during a severe storm in his state. https://t.co/CJf8qw1wY1
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 10 interactions against 1.3M followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 4.7K times each, and 0.214% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.365% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.27 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.6K interactions, about 961x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.
- What is HuffPost Politics's engagement rate on X?
- HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) has an engagement rate of 0.001%, based on the median interactions across 5 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,279,705 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.001%, HuffPost Politics sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @HuffPostPol have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @HuffPostPol post?
- Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.27 posts per day across the measured window.