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Bill Maher engagement report

@billmaher - 10M followers on X

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.004%
of 10M followers
Per impression
0.646%
61K views on a typical post
Reach
0.6%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
392
interactions (median)
Saved
0.083%
50 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.9/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
03:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 392 interactions against 10M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% 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 61K times each, and 0.646% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.6% 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, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 31% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 95K interactions, about 241x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rtovertime, #starttheclock, #realtime.

Measured over 32 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #rtovertime, #starttheclock, #realtime.

Compared with accounts its own size

Bill Maher's engagement rate beats 32% 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 45% 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 0.004%, Bill Maher 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 03:00 UTC, and Saturday 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: 03:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 03:00 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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Saturday
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

  • Aug 1, 2026241x their median

    I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup. https://t.co/0iBVs5poXg

    78K11K3.4K1.6K6.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 2026159x their median

    Spain has been having a rough time. The northern part of the country is on fire, and the southern border is being overrun by migrants. So basically, it's California. https://t.co/6pgKd725oo

    56K5.3K8991721.1M viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 202682x their median

    I would love to have @AOC and @ZohranKMamdani on the show, but I can't subpoena the guests. https://t.co/emoyqOCPml

    30K1.5K88387942K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 202659x their median

    If you’re going to migrate to a country that is proudly a melting pot, you have to want to melt. https://t.co/PzZRwSXcfY

    20K2.5K555224525K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 202656x their median

    https://t.co/43vIHyyMe9

    18K3.4K428189601K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 202637x their median

    AOC and her fiancé have called it quits after ten years together. But she says they can still be comrades. https://t.co/Tm4tL2fwnr

    13K95338452455K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 202625x their median

    Turns out, with COVID-19, the really dangerous “intimate contact” wasn’t shaking hands; it was kissing ass. https://t.co/ZgxYB9t0xz

    8.1K78097380878K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202624x their median

    If you’re trying to figure out why our government is so dysfunctional and why the sensible middle never seems to win elections, stop; I’m gonna tell you: it’s because the problem isn’t just the old farts, it’s also the new little shits. https://t.co/APBDAkCBvp

    8.0K87637263345K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202614x their median

    I know the Democrats don't want to talk about this, but we need to. https://t.co/jGjKZxfSZx

    4.7K49829933391K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 202613x their median

    It's the six-month anniversary of our "little excursion" into Iran. This war just goes on and on, with both sides almost losing interest; it's like fucking on coke. https://t.co/6YoQXbASUx

    4.6K35622514347K 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

#rtovertime#starttheclock#realtime#ussabrahamlincoln

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 392 interactions against 10M followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 32 original posts, its engagement rate beats 32% 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 61K times each, and 0.646% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.6% 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, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 32 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video and 31% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 95K interactions, about 241x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #rtovertime, #starttheclock, #realtime.

What is Bill Maher's engagement rate on X?
Bill Maher (@billmaher) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 32 original posts from the last 30 days against 10,102,243 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.004%, Bill Maher 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 @billmaher have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 32% 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 @billmaher post?
Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.9 posts per day across the measured window.

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