Morgan Housel engagement report
@morganhousel - 701K followers on X
Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 364 interactions against 701K followers, an engagement rate of 0.052%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,917 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 50K times each, and 0.727% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video, 25% are part of a thread and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 53x its own typical post.
Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Morgan Housel's engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 44% 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 0.052%, Morgan Housel sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 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 | 155.6% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Friday 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% | 54K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 56K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 45K |
| 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% | 82K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 102K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 103K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 84K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 78K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 54K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 239K |
| Monday | 0% | 303K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 305K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 259K |
| Thursday | -2% | 251K |
| Friday | -3% | 260K |
| Saturday | +3% | 234K |
Best tweets
- Jul 15, 202653x their median
“The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.”
- Oct 7, 202513x their median
My new book The Art of Spending Money is out now. You can buy it here: https://t.co/LLkOYe2vsM I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. https://t.co/wtwkWM6K49
- Jul 8, 202613x their median
A Russian saying on nostalgia: "The past is more unpredictable than the future."
- Feb 23, 20266.0x their median
"For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell." - Deirdre McCloskey, relevant today.
- Mar 9, 20264.3x their median
The demand for forecasts goes up when there’s an unforeseen shock, which is when forecasts become the least accurate.
- Jan 21, 20263.8x their median
My conversation with @morganhousel 0:00 Intro 7:22 Happiness vs Contentment 11:45 Independence Is a Spectrum 14:40 Survival Beats Intelligence 21:05 Why You’ll Underperform 22:32 Should You Buy a House? 22:32 Housing Is the Problem 35:08 Money Across Life Stages 43:50 Raising Kids With Wealth 55:46 The Vanderbilt Warning 1:07:51 Depressions, Panics, Downturns 1:14:20 Passive Income 1:32:27 What Matters 1:40:38 What Can History Teach Us About Inflation? 1:47:46 How Morgan Invests 1:53:36 Defining Success (Includes paid partnerships. Thanks @meetgranola for sponsoring this episode.)
- Jul 2, 20263.4x their median
Every generation thinks America was best when they were kids. https://t.co/YyBMkY0K67 https://t.co/HHQmigCQmA
- May 7, 20263.3x their median
I don't fully buy the idea that living in an age of uncertainty is what's driving the decline in fertility. The Baby Boom took place when your kids had to practice duck-and-cover drills at school to prepare for what was seen as the inevitable nuclear apocalypse.
- Feb 9, 20263.1x their median
Chris Rock says teachers provide half of the education at school, bullies provide the other. “And learning how to deal with bullies is that half you’ll actually use as a grownup.”
- Feb 11, 20263.1x their median
Round numbers update: https://t.co/pacdahr42s
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 364 interactions against 701K followers, an engagement rate of 0.052%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 59% of 3,917 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 50K times each, and 0.727% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.15% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 75% carry an image or video, 25% are part of a thread and 25% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 19K interactions, about 53x its own typical post.
- What is Morgan Housel's engagement rate on X?
- Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) has an engagement rate of 0.052%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 701,277 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.052%, Morgan Housel sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,856 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 @morganhousel have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 59% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,917 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 @morganhousel post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.4 posts per day across the measured window.