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Alan Kohler engagement report

@AlanKohler - 139K followers on X

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.096%
of 139K followers
Per impression
1.32%
10K views on a typical post
Reach
7.26%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
133
interactions (median)
Saved
0.183%
18 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.33/day
active 27% of days
Peak time
20:00 UTC
Sunday

A typical post picks up 133 interactions against 139K followers, an engagement rate of 0.096%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 53% of 20,444 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 10K times each, and 1.32% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.33 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 893 interactions, about 6.7x its own typical post.

Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 28, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Alan Kohler's engagement rate beats 53% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 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 49% 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 0.096%, Alan Kohler sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,475 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,475 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,893 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.678%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 Sunday 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 111%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%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Sunday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Sunday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video0% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link100% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 0% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 100% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 163 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Aug 30, 20266.7x their median

    This week's column for @abcnews - Reform happened when Labor partnered with labour, not with business. https://t.co/3mh9Oy0KDu

    590220602324K viewsView on X
  • Jun 28, 20265.0x their median

    The only trait that consistently predicts whether a boss will resist staff working from home is narcissism! https://t.co/5AIqDTVFFO

    45012675826K viewsView on X
  • Sep 13, 20262.0x their median

    My column for @abcnews about @DarioAmodei and other AI developers saying "somebody stop me": as Jonathan Schell wrote 44 years ago about nuclear weapons, the problem is sovereignty. Nothing will be done. https://t.co/bLRZg3O6Y3

    156743359.5K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 20261.8x their median

    My column for @abcnews about migration and productivity https://t.co/fT9QPlLb50

    1503251626K viewsView on X
  • Sep 27, 20261.6x their median

    Interest rates will go up tomorrow, but it's getting complicated, with AI, Trump and migration cuts pulling inflation and the economy in different directions. My column for @abcnews https://t.co/d87PCYMk21

    1503824315K viewsView on X
  • Jun 21, 2026

    Today's @abcnews column: There's more to housing demand than population growth. https://t.co/5TT2U7L8in

    963449621K viewsView on X
  • Jul 2, 2026

    I wrote an optimistic book about mid-21st century Australia. Call it grumpy, sceptical optimism, maybe, but optimistic nonetheless. Out next month. https://t.co/duqGPrex2v

    89255424K viewsView on X
  • Aug 9, 2026

    My latest column for @abcnews - on interest rates, house prices, AI and immigration. https://t.co/m0oY6FN93x

    811411112K viewsView on X
  • Aug 10, 2026

    I did a podcast with my talented son @ChrisKohler, talking about housing, which was a lot of fun. https://t.co/vjRB6cVWjW

    66111229.3K viewsView on X
  • Jul 10, 2026

    Seems like the graph didn’t work which is a bit of a problem for Graph of the Day. Back to the drawing board

    560509.5K 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 133 interactions against 139K followers, an engagement rate of 0.096%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 53% of 20,444 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 10K times each, and 1.32% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 7.26% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.33 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 893 interactions, about 6.7x its own typical post.

What is Alan Kohler's engagement rate on X?
Alan Kohler (@AlanKohler) has an engagement rate of 0.096%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 139,222 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.096%, Alan Kohler sits above the 25th percentile of the 205,475 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 @AlanKohler have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 53% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @AlanKohler post?
Most posts go out around 20:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.33 posts per day across the measured window.

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