Michael Harriot engagement report
@michaelharriot - 459K followers on X
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 76 interactions against 459K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% of 3,899 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 15K times each, and 0.523% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 88% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 84K interactions, about 1107x its own typical post.
Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 29, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Michael Harriot's engagement rate beats 37% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 35% 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 0.017%, Michael Harriot sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 156.3% |
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 01:00 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% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Oct 6, 20221107x their median
Here’s a quietly wonderful thing I noticed: If you talk to someone who was in choir or band at a majority Black HS, you’ll eventually discuss those annoying fundraisers for uniforms, instruments, etc. & a SURPRISING number will casually say: “Oh, Dolly Parton paid for ours”
- Aug 18, 202655x their median
Is Stephen A. Smith mad at the NABJ for assaulting him with an emoji? Or is he upset about being treated like he treated Jemele Hill or Jasmine Crockett or Bakari Sellers or domestic violence victims or Black women or Black men who wear hoodies or... https://t.co/YSu3uhhrjb
- Aug 20, 202629x their median
A few years ago, after reading the entire Agenda47 & all 922 pages of Project 2025, I compiled a list of their 10 worst policies for Black Americans Less than 2 years in, Trump has accomplished every single goal on his anti-Black MAGA checklist https://t.co/HC3u5M8iZK
- Jul 26, 202621x their median
I wasn’t gonna say nothing but… If you think it’s hilarious that an unaccredited Christian college in Indiana gave Cheyenne Bryant a doctotate … Wait till you find out where that boycott-leading pastor who “exposed” her earned his doctorate. *logs off*
- Aug 26, 202612x their median
Stephen A Smith criticized the NABJ for not calling before awarding him a "Thumbs Down." But a series of texts obtained by ContrabandCamp reveals Smith refusing to talk to a Black journalist for NFL Media who was fired after calling out the NFL's racism https://t.co/TFLhk5rC2v
- Aug 27, 20269.2x their median
Why Black People Love Dolly https://t.co/v2k7oLCpW6
- Aug 26, 20266.7x their median
In Loving Memory of Eddie King Jr. https://t.co/ZNKwxZAB1f
- Aug 25, 20265.1x their median
On the passing of Michael Wright and the place in the culture that his art will forever occupy https://t.co/0zv7hNMRiw
- Jul 30, 20265.1x their median
I genuinely don’t have an opinion on it, but what if I told you that Tuskegee didn’t actually change its dress code? At least not according to the 2021 Student handbook Instead of accepting the word of the hot take industrial complex, what if we used these little-known tools called “facts” & “critical thinking“?
- Aug 18, 20264.8x their median
People who don’t know shit: “The Thumbs Down Award is clearly politically motivated. They just don’t like that he’s conservative.” NABJ’s 2026 journalist of the year: https://t.co/EZbOFif8YX
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 76 interactions against 459K followers, an engagement rate of 0.017%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 37% of 3,899 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 15K times each, and 0.523% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 9% carry an image or video and 88% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 84K interactions, about 1107x its own typical post.
- What is Michael Harriot's engagement rate on X?
- Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) has an engagement rate of 0.017%, based on the median interactions across 33 original posts from the last 30 days against 458,542 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.017%, Michael Harriot sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,701 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 @michaelharriot have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 37% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 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 @michaelharriot post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.3 posts per day across the measured window.