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
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%.
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 | 160.4% |
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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
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
- Aug 3, 202617x their median
Francesca Hong describes having a half white son as "being in proximity to whiteness." https://t.co/Ix0j0nisnF
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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."
- Aug 10, 20265.0x their median
"Woke 2" Wants a Mulligan for "Woke 1" https://t.co/XhfAgxj7sj https://t.co/HsW7mgWhII
- Aug 11, 20264.1x their median
Peak Woke 1.0 https://t.co/1ANPxdk3g3
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.