Middle East Eye engagement report
@MiddleEastEye - 638K followers on X
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 16 interactions against 638K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,809 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 5.4K times each, and 0.298% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.843% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 21% carry an image or video, 23% are part of a thread and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 142 interactions, about 8.9x its own typical post.
Measured over 39 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 26, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Middle East Eye's engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 24% 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 0.003%, Middle East Eye sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,960 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 | 0.435% |
| 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 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Aug 25, 20268.9x their median
Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the UN, said during a segment on Sky News that the West Bank is "not occupied" land and that Jews have a right to it, citing both the Balfour Declaration and biblical claims to support his argument. https://t.co/IQJv7bgdDR
- Aug 25, 20266.6x their median
Far-right Israeli lawmaker Tzvi Succot was filmed destroying a Palestinian monument under the protection of the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank village of Madama. Succot is a member of Bezalel Smotrich’s far-right Jewish supremacist Religious Zionism Party. https://t.co/vWmx06bjUP
- Aug 25, 20264.4x their median
Israeli forces have stormed Unrwa vocational centres in Qalandiya and Kufr Aqab that serve about 16,000 Palestinian refugees across the occupied West Bank. https://t.co/ywYwpg7w82
- Aug 25, 20262.8x their median
🔴 LIVE: War on Iran | Day 177 - Iran Parliament Speaker says the US is not in an economic position to impose more restrictions on other countries - Israel says it will treat paper kites from Gaza as an 'act of war' - Houthis say they attacked a vessel off Saudi Arabia Live updates ⤵️ https://t.co/Sj42fI8RxR
- Aug 25, 20262.4x their median
China warns US of retaliation over expansion of Iran sanctions Beijing says it will defend Chinese companies against secondary sanctions
- Aug 25, 20261.8x their median
Former Al Jazeera journalist Ali Younes arrested in Amman for allegedly sharing article questioning US aid to Jordan
- Aug 25, 20261.6x their median
An Israeli Knesset member smashed a Palestinian memorial in the occupied West Bank, prompting condemnation https://t.co/ZQdN9ZXA8E
- Aug 25, 20261.6x their median
Jordanian authorities have arrested and prosecuted investigative journalist Ali Younes after he allegedly reposted an article calling on Washington to cut billions of dollars in aid to the kingdom https://t.co/8U4koLGdRc
- Aug 25, 2026
Druze spiritual leader Hikmat al-Hijri said on Monday that his community is “an integral part of Israel”. Back in July, he had suggested that Syria’s Sweida province be integrated into Israel, during an event marking one year since violent sectarian unrest erupted in the area. https://t.co/50gymlXnyU
- Aug 25, 2026
“Many CBC members just don't want that smoke. Because AIPAC is a bully. AIPAC is hostile.” Former Congressman Jamaal Bowman on AIPAC's endorsements of Black lawmakers and what that means for Black communities in America. Watch ➡: https://t.co/dc8FfQh9oJ https://t.co/tBfZ0YOut0
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 16 interactions against 638K followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 39 original posts, its engagement rate beats 17% of 3,809 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 5.4K times each, and 0.298% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.843% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.9 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 39 posts sampled, 21% carry an image or video, 23% are part of a thread and 59% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 142 interactions, about 8.9x its own typical post.
- What is Middle East Eye's engagement rate on X?
- Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 39 original posts from the last 30 days against 638,096 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.003%, Middle East Eye sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,960 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 @MiddleEastEye have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 17% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,809 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size 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 @MiddleEastEye post?
- Most posts go out around 11:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.87 posts per day across the measured window.