Human Rights Watch engagement report
@hrw - 4.8M followers on X
Measured over 66 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 96 interactions against 4.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 66 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 19K times each, and 0.518% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.389% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 66 posts sampled, 52% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 973 interactions, about 10x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ceuta, #documentary, #humanrights.
Measured over 66 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026. Recurring tags: #ceuta, #documentary, #humanrights.
Compared with accounts its own size
Human Rights Watch's engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 40% 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 0.002%, Human Rights Watch sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.7% |
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 13:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 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% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 229K |
| Monday | 0% | 284K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 273K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 250K |
| Thursday | -2% | 243K |
| Friday | -3% | 251K |
| Saturday | +3% | 226K |
Best tweets
- Aug 12, 202610x their median
Türkiye has requested permission from the US to “retransfer” to Ukraine tens of thousands of cluster munition rockets, missiles, and artillery projectiles that have been in Türkiye’s stockpiles for decades. These types of cluster munitions are notorious for their record of not hitting their targets and hurting civilians. They should never be used. https://t.co/tJudcezw1r
- Aug 27, 20269.0x their median
Experts say the devastating flash floods in Nepal were likely caused by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, and that climate change increases the risk of such events. Once again, communities least responsible for climate change bear the brunt of its impacts. Sustained international support is essential as the authorities respond to the catastrophe.
- Aug 11, 20268.9x their median
Lebanon’s parliament has just voted to abolish the death penalty, becoming the first Arab country to end capital punishment - a monumental step for human rights in the country.
- Aug 25, 20268.8x their median
Osman Kavala has spent nearly 9 years behind bars unlawfully. Today, the European Court of Human Rights called his treatment a flagrant denial of justice, deemed his conviction void, & ordered his immediate release for the third time. The Council of Europe should ensure Türkiye complies. Free Osman Kavala. https://t.co/omVmrzv4oG
- Aug 5, 20268.8x their median
A large force of Israeli soldiers raided Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, on Wednesday morning, conducting searches and raids, and detaining several Palestinians. Israeli soldiers distributed leaflets stating that “a large-scale operation” in the camp was underway, according to Quds News Network. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its crews in the camp have so far treated eight people who were assaulted. The army operation comes one week after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued instructions to occupy another Palestinian refugee camp under the model of the army invasions of the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams camps in early 2025 that Human Rights Watch said amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a separate attack in the neighboring town of Al-Ram, Israeli soldiers shot a young Palestinian man in the foot, according to the Red Crescent.
- Aug 6, 20268.0x their median
On April 22, 2026, Israeli military attacks in Lebanon killed journalist Amal Khalil and severely wounded journalist Zainab Faraj. The evidence indicates that the Israeli military knew or should have known that Khalil and Faraj were civilians, but subsequently targeted them, committing an apparent war crime. Read more: https://t.co/Cqb5u98nuJ
- Aug 21, 20267.4x their median
Hong Kong’s High Court has found Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan guilty of "inciting subversion of state power." The truth? They held peaceful vigils for victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Each now faces up to 10 years in prison. Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, and all unjustly imprisoned activists should be freed.
- Aug 11, 20265.2x their median
BREAKING: Human Rights Watch, together with @afsc_org, @theCCR, and Open Society Institute (part of @OpenSociety) filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s sanctions against #ICC prosecutors and judges, a UN human rights expert, and three Palestinian human rights groups. Read more: https://t.co/OtkB6neslE
- Aug 27, 20264.7x their median
Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army commander found guilty of genocide, including the massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian men and boys after the fall of Srebrenica, Bosnia in July 1995, has died. His death is a reminder of the ongoing need for justice, truth, and reparations in the Western Balkans. https://t.co/GDJLafuZZA
- Aug 15, 20264.5x their median
August 15, 2026, marks five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Over the last five years, the Taliban’s increasingly draconian policies have made Afghanistan one of the world’s gravest human rights crises, particularly for women and girls. See the timeline of abuses over the last five years: https://t.co/JFO6okJVcj
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 96 interactions against 4.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.002%. Measured over 66 original posts, its engagement rate beats 24% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 19K times each, and 0.518% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.389% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 66 posts sampled, 52% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 74% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 973 interactions, about 10x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #ceuta, #documentary, #humanrights.
- What is Human Rights Watch's engagement rate on X?
- Human Rights Watch (@hrw) has an engagement rate of 0.002%, based on the median interactions across 66 original posts from the last 30 days against 4,762,939 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.002%, Human Rights Watch sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @hrw have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 24% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @hrw post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.6 posts per day across the measured window.