Richard Engel engagement report
@RichardEngel - 528K followers on X
Measured over 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 1 original post 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 107 interactions against 528K followers, an engagement rate of 0.02%. Posts are seen about 28K times each, and 0.384% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 158x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 1 original post from a 30-day window, last computed on August 27, 2026.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.02%, Richard Engel sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 | 0.434% |
| 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 09:00 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.
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
- Mar 17, 2026158x their median
Trump says people with learning disabilities are “dumb.” We are not. https://t.co/TzNdKgGKcZ
- May 5, 2026146x their median
David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100 https://t.co/Bj5DpBIY7w https://t.co/Bj5DpBIY7w
- Mar 24, 2026107x their median
Just as President Trump declared he won the war with Iran we filmed this. https://t.co/Nvn3R4Ailt
- Mar 23, 202638x their median
Is war with Iran really deescalating? Fast moving developments. https://t.co/HpG6ri8Tek
- Mar 20, 202622x their median
In the Old City of Jerusalem - the closest of calls. How the war with Iran almost became a global religious war - today https://t.co/Tfge9T7YDV
- Mar 19, 202621x their median
A reporter for Russian Today in South Lebanon. Danger very close. https://t.co/wlD7zb2VY0
- Mar 17, 202619x their median
At site of cluster bomb attack in Tel Aviv. https://t.co/k7mmJTKgFV
- Mar 20, 202619x their median
Netanyahu spoke to a few reporters. He insists Israel is not dragging the world to war, and explained how he envisions reshaping the middle east so that oil pipelines flow through Israel. (And despite rumors, he was really there and alive) https://t.co/3PAOZl9e84
- Mar 19, 20268.6x their median
Trump’s justification of the Iran war is evolving from Iranian nukes, to control of oil and gas supplies. https://t.co/ZUtcT5LSAL
- Mar 26, 20267.7x their median
What’s really going on with Iran negotiations. (And you never know where you’ll end up sheltering when the alarms sound) https://t.co/kCiizKOqzx
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 107 interactions against 528K followers, an engagement rate of 0.02%. Posts are seen about 28K times each, and 0.384% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.03 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 1 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 17K interactions, about 158x its own typical post. Only 1 original post 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 Richard Engel's engagement rate on X?
- Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) has an engagement rate of 0.02%, based on the median interactions across 1 original posts from the last 30 days against 527,537 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.02%, Richard Engel sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @RichardEngel have real engagement?
- There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
- When does @RichardEngel post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.03 posts per day across the measured window.