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Trevor Noah engagement report

@Trevornoah - 11M followers on X

Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.003%
of 11M followers
Per impression
0.285%
100K views on a typical post
Reach
0.92%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
284
interactions (median)
Saved
0.043%
43 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.03/day
active 97% of days
Peak time
16:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 284 interactions against 11M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 3,774 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 100K times each, and 0.285% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.916% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 57x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #whatnow, #oliverburkeman, #trevornoah.

Measured over 52 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #whatnow, #oliverburkeman, #trevornoah.

Compared with accounts its own size

Trevor Noah's engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 26% 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%, Trevor Noah sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.433%
p902.10%
p99160.5%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,654 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,977 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 percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.433%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.5%

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 16:00 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.

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: 16:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 16:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
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%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
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%101K
16:00 UTC-3%98K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%74K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-1%57K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%231K
Monday0%288K
Tuesday-2%278K
Wednesday-1%251K
Thursday-1%245K
Friday-3%253K
Saturday+3%227K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 27, 202657x their median

    Apparently, I’m still the person the internet asks about South Africa. So I went looking for answers. Whatever holiday you are looking for, South Africa has you. Just don’t say we didn’t tell you. @TBCZA https://t.co/GSlBxt7qgn

    9.0K1.7K3.1K2.3K6.4M viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 202635x their median

    Whenever someone says, “My grandparents stayed together forever,” I’m sending them this clip. 😂 https://t.co/xslbEaeqTu

    8.6K1.3K13771404K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 202623x their median

    Maybe your English isn't that bad after all. 😂 Lera Boroditsky explains why English speakers may actually be better at understanding broken English. https://t.co/dkragzawrk

    6.0K5043389917K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 202619x their median

    Apparently there is a correct way to say “your mom” when your friend's mother is Diana Ross. I learned this during the interview. Full conversation on my YouTube channel. https://t.co/dSVgZ6DHg4

    5.0K2952732336K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 202615x their median

    Hasan explains why complex corporate regulations always get sidelined by easy-to-grasp debates. Check out the full conversation on my YouTube channel. https://t.co/bIkm4mJlfj

    3.9K305437250K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 202613x their median

    48,000 people dying a year in the wealthiest nation on Earth because they can't see a doctor... https://t.co/YDtU5F6gKE

    3.3K3347311172K viewsView on X
  • Jul 26, 202613x their median

    Who decides what counts as "fine dining"? Asma Khan has a powerful answer. Watch the full conversation on my YouTube channel. https://t.co/mjp97EA6xk

    3.0K4955855391K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 202610x their median

    Tracee Ellis Ross posts a bikini photo. My phone: “Tracee… damn.” Being her friend comes with responsibilities I never signed up for. 😂 Full conversation on my YouTube channel. https://t.co/UQewUBEd6W

    2.7K1672719214K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20266.9x their median

    There comes a point in every parent's life when boarding school starts sounding less like an educational choice and more like a vacation package. 😂 Tracee Ellis Ross, Eugene, and I got into it. Full conversation on my YouTube channel. https://t.co/uVgZuxyjth

    1.8K142204185K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20266.3x their median

    South Africa! @SavannaCider Serves @BafunnyComedy Comedy Festival! 📍 PRETORIA — SUNBET ARENA 4 September — NEW SHOW ADDED 5 September — LOW TICKETS 📍 DURBAN — SUNCOAST 19 September — NEW SHOW ADDED 📍 CAPE TOWN — GRANDWEST 25 September — NEW SHOW ADDED 26 September — LOW TICKETS Join me @eugenekhoza, Learnmore Jonasi, @ThabisoComedian, @MGudazi, @nonto_r, @RoryPetzer, @Lindyyay, @Panch_Gasela, @ThabiMhlongo, as we bring laughs to a city near you.

    1.5K2257125186K 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

#whatnow#oliverburkeman#trevornoah#comedy#fourthousandweeks

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 284 interactions against 11M followers, an engagement rate of 0.003%. Measured over 52 original posts, its engagement rate beats 27% of 3,774 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 100K times each, and 0.285% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.916% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 52 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 16K interactions, about 57x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #whatnow, #oliverburkeman, #trevornoah.

What is Trevor Noah's engagement rate on X?
Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) has an engagement rate of 0.003%, based on the median interactions across 52 original posts from the last 30 days against 10,889,735 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.003%, Trevor Noah sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,654 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 @Trevornoah have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 27% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @Trevornoah post?
Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.03 posts per day across the measured window.

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