zerohedge engagement report
@zerohedge - 3.4M followers on X
Measured over 354 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 242 interactions against 3.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 354 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 3,739 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 68K times each, and 0.356% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 16.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 354 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 73% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 327K interactions, about 1351x its own typical post.
Measured over 354 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
zerohedge's engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 31% 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 0.007%, zerohedge sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
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% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Aug 19, 20261351x their median
Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer. That is the truth.
- Aug 19, 2026265x their median
Am I allowed to observe that this is performative, self-centered, childish bullshit from a theatrical narcissist or will that make everyone really mad again? https://t.co/SWXT3MW5MO
- Aug 19, 2026152x their median
🤵👀 Marc Jacobs says he'd dress Luigi Mangione for his murder trial. https://t.co/4L4gSNdEGM https://t.co/1OKWBfHbxF
- Aug 18, 202697x their median
We’re extending the 50% increase to weekly Claude Code limits through August 31. We hope to make this a permanent change to our plans, but strong demand for our models means that capacity may be tight over the coming weeks. We’ll keep you posted as things develop.
- Aug 17, 202694x their median
NEW: The company behind a recent poll that showed Karen Bass with a 12-point lead over Nithya Raman for LA mayor & showed Bass collecting most of Spencer Pratt's prior support has admitted their poll was FAKE and was intended as a "social experiment" to see how a poll could spread in the media ecosystem without verification. The company, Median Strategies, also conducted a recent poll in Wisconsin that had socialist gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong up by 20 points. Hong lost her primary. It was all bogus. Wild story via @Noah__Goldberg at LAT: https://t.co/WnuHCjTBG1
- Aug 19, 202694x their median
JUST IN: T-Mobile cyber staff reveals it physically "chopped" a network cable after discovering Chinese hackers attempting to infiltrate its systems.
- Aug 17, 202688x their median
There are still at least two California Democrats in office who were deeply involved in divulging state secrets to Fang Fang in exchange for illegal CCP contributions: Rohit Khanna and Judy Chu. https://t.co/DL1p82snIM
- Aug 17, 202678x their median
Newly declassified files reveal that the FBI dropped its investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell's romantic relationship with an alleged Chinese spy — even though it had concluded she was an “illegal source of campaign contributions” — as it ramped up its investigation of Trump. https://t.co/By2coBVPyq
- Aug 19, 202672x their median
I thought watching George Conway get destroyed in his primary would be the crown jewel of comedy, but then this fat doofus got his ass kicked by a Black communist chick with mental health issues. https://t.co/OCS9Jfyf3O
- Aug 17, 202658x their median
Diesel crack hits record $102. This is absolutely unprecedented. Industrial economy either grinds to a halt or consumers about to be hit with the biggest energy pass through in history https://t.co/OtAdgrCvb3
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 242 interactions against 3.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.007%. Measured over 354 original posts, its engagement rate beats 41% of 3,739 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 68K times each, and 0.356% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 16.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 354 posts sampled, 8% carry an image or video and 73% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 327K interactions, about 1351x its own typical post.
- What is zerohedge's engagement rate on X?
- zerohedge (@zerohedge) has an engagement rate of 0.007%, based on the median interactions across 354 original posts from the last 30 days against 3,363,942 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.007%, zerohedge sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,378 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 @zerohedge have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 41% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 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 @zerohedge post?
- Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 16.23 posts per day across the measured window.