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Matt Taibbi engagement report

@mtaibbi - 2.2M followers on X

Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.037%
of 2.2M followers
Per impression
1.07%
77K views on a typical post
Reach
3.47%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
822
interactions (median)
Saved
0.062%
48 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.13/day
active 57% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 822 interactions against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.037%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 3,774 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 77K times each, and 1.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.47% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 41K interactions, about 49x its own typical post.

Measured over 31 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Matt Taibbi's engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 58% 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 0.037%, Matt Taibbi sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.434%
p902.10%
p99160.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,759 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,964 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.08%
75th percentile0.434%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.4%

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 20:00 UTC, and Monday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 20:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 20:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%51K
01:00 UTC-2%52K
02:00 UTC-3%50K
03:00 UTC-4%54K
04:00 UTC-6%43K
05:00 UTC-4%42K
06:00 UTC-4%48K
07:00 UTC-5%52K
08:00 UTC-4%61K
09:00 UTC-3%70K
10:00 UTC-2%72K
11:00 UTC-3%79K
12:00 UTC-2%87K
13:00 UTC-3%95K
14:00 UTC-4%98K
15:00 UTC-2%101K
16:00 UTC-4%99K
17:00 UTC-2%91K
18:00 UTC-1%85K
19:00 UTC-1%80K
20:00 UTC-1%75K
21:00 UTC-1%66K
22:00 UTC-2%58K
23:00 UTC-2%52K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%232K
Monday0%290K
Tuesday-2%281K
Wednesday-1%252K
Thursday-2%245K
Friday-3%254K
Saturday+3%228K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 12, 202649x their median

    Devastating: Francesca Hong Forced To Return Home And Spend Time With Her White Son https://t.co/SssiYCiEk2

    36K3.8K3951431.3M viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 202617x their median

    Francesca Hong describes having a half white son as "being in proximity to whiteness." https://t.co/Ix0j0nisnF

    9.4K1.3K1.9K1.4K9.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 202612x their median

    News that the Met investigated reporter Jack Grove for four months just for researching Cambridge’s Jason Arday is incredible - yes, we have speech problems in the US, but the UK has an institutional mechanism to use police to stop reporting https://t.co/IkfAzA1Wrf

    8.4K1.2K11431134K viewsView on X
  • Aug 2, 202610.0x their median

    😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:

    5.9K1.3K7671751.2M viewsView on X
  • Aug 2, 20269.7x their median

    Listen to This Article: After Fauci Debacle, Our Idiot Press Circles the Wagons I guess it’s true: you can’t hate the news media enough. https://t.co/Er3Nmfq7Hc https://t.co/WZ6cg0rQ66

    6.6K1.2K14931452K viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 20268.8x their median

    Senate Votes to Hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in Contempt; Obtains His Phone https://t.co/0QCeVsAivW https://t.co/lkKlbFAkxj

    6.5K54616220131K viewsView on X
  • Aug 2, 20268.1x their median

    BREAKING: Trump says he has canceled the planned U.S. strike on Iran, adding that the two sides have agreed to the “parameters” of a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

    5.0K3529283401.4M viewsView on X
  • Aug 2, 20267.5x their median

    Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, tells Dana Bash, "When I went into the White House, my view was this was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak. Based on information I learned and based on information I've seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak."

    4.6K8396141902.1M viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 20265.0x their median

    "Woke 2" Wants a Mulligan for "Woke 1" https://t.co/XhfAgxj7sj https://t.co/HsW7mgWhII

    3.6K3471511598K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20264.1x their median

    Peak Woke 1.0 https://t.co/1ANPxdk3g3

    3.0K15711852467K viewsView on X

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 822 interactions against 2.2M followers, an engagement rate of 0.037%. Measured over 31 original posts, its engagement rate beats 68% of 3,774 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 77K times each, and 1.07% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.47% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 31 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video, 10% are part of a thread and 77% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 41K interactions, about 49x its own typical post.

What is Matt Taibbi's engagement rate on X?
Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) has an engagement rate of 0.037%, based on the median interactions across 31 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,217,589 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.037%, Matt Taibbi sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 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 @mtaibbi have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 68% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 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 @mtaibbi post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.13 posts per day across the measured window.

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