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Glenn Greenwald engagement report

@ggreenwald - 2.5M followers on X

Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026.

Engagement

Top quarter for its size
Per follower
0.101%
of 2.5M followers
Per impression
1.68%
153K views on a typical post
Reach
6.00%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
2.6K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.06%
92 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
8.3/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
17:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 2.6K interactions against 2.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.101%. Measured over 76 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 153K times each, and 1.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 68% carry an image or video and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 92K interactions, about 36x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #editorial, #resistance, #vazajato.

Measured over 76 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 30, 2026. Recurring tags: #editorial, #resistance, #vazajato.

Compared with accounts its own size

Glenn Greenwald'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 71% 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 0.101%, Glenn Greenwald 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 17:00 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: 17:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 17:00 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

  • Aug 12, 202636x their median

    You can hate me for saying this because I don’t care Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to hold public office in America.

    78K9.5K3.7K5171.7M viewsView on X
  • Aug 20, 202626x their median

    Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada. https://t.co/eoVzRYAwHV

    50K11K4.3K1.9K4.5M viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202612x their median

    Americans do not surrender their privacy rights when they drive to work, drop their kids off at school, or go to church. I’m investigating Flock cameras to determine WHO has access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ data - and what they’re doing with it https://t.co/NsycLJaMMA

    23K4.5K2.2K315748K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20269.8x their median

    Randy Fine was caught on camera rummaging through someone else's mailbox while campaigning door-to-door. To be fair, that mailbox was promised to him by God 3,000 years ago.

    23K2.0K56952289K viewsView on X
  • Aug 17, 20269.2x their median

    Whether it's on Fox News or local TV, I'll never shy away from telling the truth — Israel is committing genocide. https://t.co/AsOMx72ZQm

    20K3.2K616127496K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20269.1x their median

    NEW: An absolutely bizarre case with huge implications for US National Security and Brazil: The Biden-Era C.B.P. Fabricated an Immigration Document Used to Imprison a Top-Level Brazilian Official. A U.S. Federal Judge Just Ordered Full Disclosure to Find Out Who Did It. https://t.co/j6OfyUdorM

    18K4.7K315144286K viewsView on X
  • Mar 3, 20268.8x their median

    A WhatsApp from a US navy seal. Incredible. https://t.co/4SehsbNHZ5

    19K1.2K1.4K3884.5M viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 20267.9x their median

    Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all. https://t.co/70qBSrQeJO

    18K1.7K298100658K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20267.7x their median

    https://t.co/qKEuxF3mcX

    16K2.8K1.3K123263K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20266.4x their median

    Malu Gaspar recorda que, durante a #VazaJato, o STF protegeu o meu direito constitucional ao sigilo da fonte -- o mesmo direito que Moraes, com o apoio quase unânime da esquerda brasileira, agora está atacando e violando. https://t.co/yYqZFPiLOk

    13K2.5K33557293K 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

#editorial#resistance#vazajato

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 2.6K interactions against 2.5M followers, an engagement rate of 0.101%. Measured over 76 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 153K times each, and 1.68% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.99% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 8.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 76 posts sampled, 68% carry an image or video and 22% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 92K interactions, about 36x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #editorial, #resistance, #vazajato.

What is Glenn Greenwald's engagement rate on X?
Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) has an engagement rate of 0.101%, based on the median interactions across 76 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,545,655 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.101%, Glenn Greenwald 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 @ggreenwald 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 @ggreenwald post?
Most posts go out around 17:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 8.3 posts per day across the measured window.

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