EnglishChris Matthews is on Twitter (X) as @HardballChris, with 795,076 followers and 2,946 posts. It has been on X since June 2009, an account age of 17 years.
Engagement
Early reading. We have captured 6 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.
A typical post picks up 8 interactions against 795K followers, an engagement rate of 0.001%. Posts are seen about 10K times each, and 0.083% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.47 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 10% of days saw any activity at all.
Measured over 6 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.
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Bio
Author, 20-Year Hardball anchor; Professor of American Politics and Media, Fulbright University Vietnam, and now on Substack
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