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
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%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.433% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.5% |
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.
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% | 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 231K |
| Monday | 0% | 288K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 278K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 253K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jul 24, 202656x their median
https://t.co/43vIHyyMe9
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Aug 26, 202614x their median
I know the Democrats don't want to talk about this, but we need to. https://t.co/jGjKZxfSZx
- 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
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
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.