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
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%.
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 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.
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 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Mar 3, 20268.8x their median
A WhatsApp from a US navy seal. Incredible. https://t.co/4SehsbNHZ5
- 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
- Aug 13, 20267.7x their median
https://t.co/qKEuxF3mcX
- 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
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 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.