Ryan Holiday engagement report
@RyanHoliday - 1.0M followers on X
Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 184 interactions against 1.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 3,758 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 33K times each, and 0.552% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 44% carry an image or video and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.
Measured over 54 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Ryan Holiday's engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 35% 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 0.018%, Ryan Holiday 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 18:00 UTC, and Thursday 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
- Aug 30, 202614x their median
Some things you must STOP doing according to The Stoics: https://t.co/aMMrXK2CBW
- Aug 29, 202611x their median
Five all time Stoic one liners https://t.co/xJWlXbCJbI
- Aug 29, 20268.6x their median
The perfect spouse is the best life hack no one told you about.
- Aug 30, 20264.6x their median
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." — Sigmund Freud
- Aug 25, 20264.1x their median
https://t.co/EePgBiHPBX
- Aug 26, 20263.8x their median
https://t.co/ZHqEbMcQ9m
- Aug 16, 20263.4x their median
We cannot fix what we won’t face. We cannot stop what we refuse to acknowledge.
- Aug 24, 20263.3x their median
When you have the shot you have to take it.
- Aug 24, 20263.3x their median
https://t.co/TA8iooA7IN
- Aug 20, 20262.8x their median
When you have the shot you have to take it. People are counting on you.
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 184 interactions against 1.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.018%. Measured over 54 original posts, its engagement rate beats 44% of 3,758 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 33K times each, and 0.552% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.8 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 54 posts sampled, 44% carry an image or video and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.5K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.
- What is Ryan Holiday's engagement rate on X?
- Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday) has an engagement rate of 0.018%, based on the median interactions across 54 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,023,758 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.018%, Ryan Holiday 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 @RyanHoliday have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 44% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @RyanHoliday post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.8 posts per day across the measured window.