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zeynep tufekci engagement report

@zeynep - 379K followers on X

Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.044%
of 379K followers
Per impression
0.508%
33K views on a typical post
Reach
8.77%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
169
interactions (median)
Saved
0.123%
41 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
2.2/day
active 73% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 169 interactions against 379K followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 3,792 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 33K times each, and 0.508% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.77% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video and 89% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cdc, #measles.

Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tags: #cdc, #measles.

Compared with accounts its own size

zeynep tufekci's engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 26% 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 0.044%, zeynep tufekci 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 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
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 15, 202626x their median

    EXCLUSIVE: Two DHS Sources Confirm to Migrant Insider — The ICE Agent Who Pointed His Gun at a U.S. Citizen in Virginia Is Martin Lagunas https://t.co/1xtlQ8APhI

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  • Aug 17, 20263.1x their median

    How to Stop a Lab Leak from Starting the Next Pandemic. My new op-ed made possible by the @nytimes graphics and editorial team: https://t.co/btZiDn5llf https://t.co/JRZsAxfLsT

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  • Aug 14, 20262.2x their median

    there's no standard 'rehabilitation' procedure for the disgraced since we lack a postmodern collective religious framework and practice now if you fuck up you're gonna have to figure out how to fend for yourself or fix yourself enough to be reintegrated into society someday. and i don't think anyone's working on *this*

    340176556K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20262.0x their median

    This is horrifying. Pretending to be an ICE agent to terrorize our neighbors is cruel, disgusting, and dangerous. These individuals must be held fully accountable. ICE’s lawlessness and secrecy lets this violence flourish. https://t.co/YkL8V1eYxQ

    2277242573K viewsView on X
  • Feb 24, 20261.8x their median

    My Princeton AI and society team is at the @IASEAIorg AI summit in Paris. My Neurips keynote for our approach: https://t.co/tfP0C7PhpT Our paper: https://t.co/v5uKOzceyX Say hi especially if you are *utterly* unimpressed by the current doom or hype models. Wrong nightmares!

    211757792K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 2026

    Anthropic started watermarking Claude’s output. I did a little investigation into what method they used: https://t.co/w3Y3lezCWS It’s likely they’re using some private key watermark similar to SynthID. They’re likely not using hidden Unicode or using green/red lists

    201328157K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 2026

    A backlash against Anthropic is brewing in Silicon Valley, rooted in concerns about the company’s product launches that compete with existing software providers and its advocacy for a closed AI ecosystem https://t.co/uYrkVFZjNf

    163341310103K viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 2026

    Former Senior NIAID Official [David Morens] Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic https://t.co/ZV9QgSeRKv

    116398623K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 2026

    An Article in Science on Wet-Market Covid Origins is Unreliable by Michael B. Weissman An influential paper by Worobey et al. and 17 other authors published in Science in 2022 claimed that case locations and nucleic acid samples showed that SARS-CoV-2 had first been introduced to humans at the Huanan Seafood Market. Several lines of evidence suggest the introduction to humans was earlier and elsewhere. https://t.co/lVafcbPmUI

    1092511933K viewsView on X
  • Jul 22, 2026

    That one is for you, @zeynep: You are Turkish and thus suspicious for thinking that "oppressive governments lie and cover-up." https://t.co/NCP5AVwUKz

    95914560K 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.

Recurring topics

#cdc#measles

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 169 interactions against 379K followers, an engagement rate of 0.044%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 39% of 3,792 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 33K times each, and 0.508% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.77% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 22% carry an image or video and 89% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.3K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #cdc, #measles.

What is zeynep tufekci's engagement rate on X?
zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) has an engagement rate of 0.044%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 379,350 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.044%, zeynep tufekci 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 @zeynep have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 39% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,792 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 @zeynep post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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