Maggie Haberman engagement report
@maggieNYT - 1.8M followers on X
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 243 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% of 3,758 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 69K times each, and 0.35% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.86% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.2K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
Measured over 17 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Maggie Haberman's engagement rate beats 51% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 31% 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 0.013%, Maggie Haberman sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 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 Sunday 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% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 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% | 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% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 11, 202626x their median
With huge hat-tip to WaPo for a massive scoop, and matching some of their reporting, @EricSchmittNYT and me on the Trump admin ruse to fly him out of Turkey with AF1 and the reporters on board as unwitting decoys https://t.co/w7M2pJJMoY
- Aug 30, 202614x their median
The self-described most transparent administration has restricted specific journalists from major mainstream news outlets from attending the G20 finance meeting in N.C. next week https://t.co/ZTM70u6Ytu
- Aug 7, 202610x their median
Trump argues he doesn't need to be campaigning on behalf Republicans, telling Punchbowl he "already won" his own race. He adds that he doesn't know if his supporters will go out and vote for GOP candidates, claiming: “They’re not angry at me. But they are angry at Republicans.”
- Jul 28, 20266.9x their median
NEW: Netanyahu and Graham worked in coordination to get a bipartisan group of US lawmakers to denounce the ICC as the organization was on verge of issuing arrest warrant for the Israeli PM, video from filmmaker @alexjholder shared with NYT shows https://t.co/Oy5JypQor7
- Aug 5, 20263.7x their median
Trump team has talked about taking two AF1s with him when he leaves office - a 1990 jet and the Qatari bridge AF1 when he leaves office. Unclear where that stands now. Eric Trump told NBC News by text that putting the bridge plan at the Miami library is not the plan "at the moment." W @EricLiptonNYT https://t.co/BVUyh2YO97
- Aug 15, 20263.0x their median
US Atty Boutros in Chicago, whose office brought the Broadview 6 debacle & opened inquiry into E Jean Carroll trial funding, has been investigating Loren Merchan, daughter of NY judge who presided over Trump's criminal convictions. https://t.co/DbhvBKZ07C
- Jul 11, 20262.8x their median
NEW: White House directed Patel to oversee investigation involving Times reporting. @DevlinBarrett @GlennThrush me https://t.co/ioNmCs4sWO
- Jul 24, 20262.5x their median
Trump massively escalates against the Smithsonian > https://t.co/7VdlmoGOdq
- Jul 20, 20262.4x their median
NEW: Attorneys for the New York Times have told a judge that subpoenas involving reporters on an Air Force One story are far broader in scope that previously known. DOJ apparently subpoenaed one of the reporters' mother. Link to Letter: https://t.co/PweXRvZZJe
- Jul 16, 20261.7x their median
Matching CNN, the Patel-led leak investigation that included subpoenas of Times journalists w/in 48 hours of first story includes efforts to speak to several ppl traveling on the Turkey trip, including USSS members @GlennThrush me https://t.co/ziGGJSnBCj
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.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 243 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.013%. Measured over 17 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% of 3,758 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 69K times each, and 0.35% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.86% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 17 posts sampled, 94% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.2K interactions, about 26x its own typical post.
- What is Maggie Haberman's engagement rate on X?
- Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) has an engagement rate of 0.013%, based on the median interactions across 17 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,799,032 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.013%, Maggie Haberman sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,521 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 @maggieNYT have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 51% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,758 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 @maggieNYT post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.07 posts per day across the measured window.