Maggie Haberman engagement report
@maggieNYT - 1.8M followers on X
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 30, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 524 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.028%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 21,624 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 115K times each, and 0.457% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.21% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 11% are part of a thread and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.0K interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 30, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Maggie Haberman's engagement rate beats 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 28% 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 0.028%, Maggie Haberman sits above the 25th percentile of the 218,065 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.025% to 0.149%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.149% |
| 75th percentile | 0.705% |
| 90th percentile | 2.63% |
| 99th percentile | 82.6% |
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 21:00 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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 78% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 78% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 195 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Oct 2, 202613x their median
NEW: President Trump directly told Russ Vought to find the funds to finance the ads glorifying him. The agency’s general counsel and WH counsel both signed off on the move as legal. The president and WH chief of staff spoke to the DHS secretary. https://t.co/U4zWDOqJbx
- Aug 11, 202612x 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
- Sep 2, 202610x their median
Biden to attend 9/11 ceremony at the World Trade Center site in NYC next week, his spokesman confirms, rounding out the former presidents all expected to be there. Trump is set to be at the Pentagon https://t.co/JuhHebx1YS
- Oct 5, 20269.9x their median
some news: after 12 years and a lot of bylines, im leaving The Times it is bittersweet. i will miss my colleagues and am proud of the work we did together. im joining The Atlantic in December to cover Silicon Valley for the magazine! could not be more thrilled to get started
- Aug 30, 20266.6x 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, 20264.7x 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, 20264.2x 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
- Sep 9, 20262.1x their median
Someone accidentally deployed the emergency inflatable slide on the Qatari “bright” plane, briefly delaying Trump’s takeoff for Texas. @tylerpager me https://t.co/4eNpesSZYM
- Aug 5, 20261.7x 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
- Sep 8, 20261.5x their median
Lonnie Bunch, the first Black head of the Smithsonian to depart, after roughly 18 months of trying to fend off White House efforts to rewrite the story it tells about America https://t.co/QrFi9MXTle
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 524 interactions against 1.8M followers, an engagement rate of 0.028%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 49% of 21,624 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 115K times each, and 0.457% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.21% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 11% are part of a thread and 78% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.0K interactions, about 13x its own typical post.
- What is Maggie Haberman's engagement rate on X?
- Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) has an engagement rate of 0.028%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,848,779 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.028%, Maggie Haberman sits above the 25th percentile of the 218,065 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 49% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,624 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 21:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1 posts per day across the measured window.