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Chris Hayes engagement report

@chrislhayes - 2.4M followers on X

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.099%
of 2.4M followers
Per impression
0.64%
375K views on a typical post
Reach
15.5%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.4K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.041%
155 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.57/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
01:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 2.4K interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.099%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 85% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 375K times each, and 0.64% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 15.5% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 117K interactions, about 49x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cubs, #mustwatch.

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #cubs, #mustwatch.

Compared with accounts its own size

Chris Hayes's engagement rate beats 85% 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 0.099%, Chris Hayes sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,654 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.433%.

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 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 01:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 01:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 16, 202649x their median

    Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled. You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

    97K18K2.2K5362.0M viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 202645x their median

    🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer went straight to the pub after resigning as Prime Minister earlier 📸 The Sun https://t.co/i6EDho7zuy

    100K4.5K1.7K2.2K17M viewsView on X
  • Jul 14, 202631x their median

    So this could turn out to be a World Cup final. https://t.co/McZ88kMrIJ

    66K4.6K4011.9K35M viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 202616x their median

    We can now confirm that the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado’s van was not a narcotic or any other illicit substance. As his family has said all along, this was an electrolyte powder to stay hydrated working outside in the hot Texas summer. The attempt to cast a shadow over Lorenzo Salgado’s name has failed.

    32K5.6K52785540K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 202615x their median

    “we sandboxed the agent” meanwhile the agent: https://t.co/4l1socvmIF

    33K3.1K2502031.2M viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20269.5x their median

    BREAKING NYT: Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states "based solely" on whether they backed Trump in the 2024 election. https://t.co/Zo5EtEW4U2

    15K6.4K5945772.4M viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20266.3x their median

    I'm so freakin sick of how Claude talks. It's not just annoying, it's infuriating. The honest evaluation: it's the precise mechanism driving my current headache. It's the load-bearing root cause of my daily stress. It's genuinely painful, and that matters.

    13K5381.0K1951.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20264.0x their median

    #CUBS WALK IT OFF! FINAL (10): Cubs 7, White Sox 5. https://t.co/FECmxAlNen

    8.2K1.2K178125169K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20263.6x their median

    Today I was alerted to a family with a 7 yo being held in Dilley Internment Camp. They came to the US via legal asylee process. Went to their ICE check-ins. Broke no laws. Mom got pregnant. Rather than try to have the child here for citizenship they did what the admin asked 1/

    7.0K1.6K13952592K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20263.3x their median

    This is what Trump gets for allowing his base to become openly racist and Islamophobic. Big fat L for his endorsed candidate in Michigan. https://t.co/7syqtjeekw

    6.9K77216087365K 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

#cubs#mustwatch

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 2.4K interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.099%. Measured over 15 original posts, its engagement rate beats 85% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 375K times each, and 0.64% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 15.5% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 40% carry an image or video and 20% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 117K interactions, about 49x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cubs, #mustwatch.

What is Chris Hayes's engagement rate on X?
Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) has an engagement rate of 0.099%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,417,182 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.099%, Chris Hayes sits above the 50th 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 @chrislhayes have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 85% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size 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 @chrislhayes post?
Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.57 posts per day across the measured window.

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