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Michael Steele engagement report

@MichaelSteele - 372K followers on X

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.036%
of 372K followers
Per impression
0.863%
16K views on a typical post
Reach
4.17%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
134
interactions (median)
Saved
0.013%
2 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.1/day
active 53% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 134 interactions against 372K followers, an engagement rate of 0.036%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% of 4,273 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 16K times each, and 0.863% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 21% carry an image or video and 84% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 170x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #irsimmunity, #slushfund.

Measured over 19 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #irsimmunity, #slushfund.

Compared with accounts its own size

Michael Steele's engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,273 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 38% 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 0.036%, Michael Steele sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,299 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.013% to 0.083%.

p100.002%
p250.013%
p50 (median)0.083%
p750.445%
p902.07%
p99144.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 41,299 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 90,063 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.013%
50th percentile0.083%
75th percentile0.445%
90th percentile2.07%
99th percentile144.1%

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 17:00 UTC, and Friday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%58K
01:00 UTC-2%58K
02:00 UTC-4%57K
03:00 UTC-4%61K
04:00 UTC-6%49K
05:00 UTC-4%47K
06:00 UTC-4%55K
07:00 UTC-4%59K
08:00 UTC-4%69K
09:00 UTC-4%80K
10:00 UTC-3%82K
11:00 UTC-3%90K
12:00 UTC-2%98K
13:00 UTC-2%108K
14:00 UTC-4%111K
15:00 UTC-2%115K
16:00 UTC-4%111K
17:00 UTC-3%104K
18:00 UTC-2%96K
19:00 UTC-2%91K
20:00 UTC-1%85K
21:00 UTC-1%75K
22:00 UTC-2%65K
23:00 UTC-1%58K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Friday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%253K
Monday+1%324K
Tuesday-2%348K
Wednesday-4%309K
Thursday-2%264K
Friday-3%274K
Saturday+3%247K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 5, 2026170x their median

    BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you and others in the media wanna keep questioning it

    16K3.3K2.7K7732.6M viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 2026161x their median

    Trump, you lost the 2020 election. If the election was rigged, it was rigged by your administration as your administration was in charge leading up to, during and after the election. There was no foreign interference. There was no fraud. The election was not stolen. You lost old man. I would say deal with it, but that would require a level of emotional maturity you obviously lack.

    13K3.9K4.1K229210K viewsView on X
  • Jul 17, 202644x their median

    Markwayne Mullin says he’s making “mandatory” changes to elections, including requiring states to “scrub” their voter rolls https://t.co/p5aRegbgaI

    2.6K7821.8K6822.1M viewsView on X
  • Jul 30, 202617x their median

    Hawley: Here's a hint—Innocent people don't invoke the fifth. Fauci invoked it 111 times. You draw your own conclusion. https://t.co/BwThiF4Ovb

    608931.3K298405K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 202613x their median

    Cassidy: "I will vote for Mr Blanche. I will be criticized for this vote. What's new?" https://t.co/R8B5BammhH

    824155574205490K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 202613x their median

    Trump says that after Iran is defeated he’s going to declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States https://t.co/zmZsqtY3VS

    962203401189722K viewsView on X
  • Aug 9, 202611x their median

    Rubio’s refugee resettlement: “Last month, the United States accepted just 2,528 people into the refugee program. Everyone one of them was a white person from South Africa. So far this fiscal year, 99.96 precent of the refugees the administration has taken have been white people from South Africa. The others — three in total — were from Afghanistan. And Trump later revoked their status.” https://t.co/uhsHJ4eu7U

    1.0K3672943314K viewsView on X
  • Jul 8, 20267.4x their median

    Vance: I ask you a very simple question: When you come to vote in November, are you going to vote for the pro fraud party? https://t.co/2gaCChIcs0

    27460547107139K viewsView on X
  • Aug 9, 20264.9x their median

    Trump is both the defendant and the plaintiff. What new kind of BS is this? A Moment of Clarity https://t.co/9WlJESY1Z3

    5471066218K viewsView on X
  • Aug 9, 20264.2x their median

    Trump don't know he has to uphold the Constitution, but he knows where all of those munitions are. Please. A Moment of Clarity https://t.co/hw7D0uW32d

    4519614220K viewsView on X

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

#irsimmunity#slushfund

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 134 interactions against 372K followers, an engagement rate of 0.036%. Measured over 19 original posts, its engagement rate beats 35% of 4,273 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 16K times each, and 0.863% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 53% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 19 posts sampled, 21% carry an image or video and 84% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 23K interactions, about 170x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #irsimmunity, #slushfund.

What is Michael Steele's engagement rate on X?
Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) has an engagement rate of 0.036%, based on the median interactions across 19 original posts from the last 30 days against 372,469 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.036%, Michael Steele sits above the 25th percentile of the 41,299 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 @MichaelSteele have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 35% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (4,273 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 @MichaelSteele post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.1 posts per day across the measured window.

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