Mike Lee engagement report
@BasedMikeLee - 702K followers on X
Measured over 43 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 3.9K interactions against 702K followers, an engagement rate of 0.55%. Measured over 43 original posts, its engagement rate beats 93% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 62K times each, and 6.27% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 43 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 842K interactions, about 220x its own typical post.
Measured over 43 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 2, 2026. Recurring tag: #defundcarnegiemellon.
Compared with accounts its own size
Mike Lee's engagement rate beats 93% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 93% 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 0.55%, Mike Lee sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 22:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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% | 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 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
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.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 70% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 9% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 70% 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.
- 9% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 255 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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
- Sep 10, 2025220x their median
America will never be the same. https://t.co/Wd2AJsn0W0
- Sep 1, 202634x their median
Constance Fisher drowned her three children in a bathtub in 1954. Mental hospital. Declared better. Released. Husband stayed. They had three more kids. She drowned those three too. Same house. Same bathtub. Same excuse. Six dead children because a system treated a child killer like a patient who just needed time. That is the whole argument. Not “was she sad.” Not “did she hear voices.” What happens after you let them out, and who pays for it the second time. Lindsay Clancy strangled her three kids. People are already writing her a sympathy card and calling prison cruel. Cruel is three little bodies. Cruel is doing it once and getting a path back to freedom. Cruel is pretending history didn’t already run this experiment and lose six kids. Mental illness can explain how someone gets there. It does not give you a free murder. It does not entitle you to more children. And it does not require the rest of us to wait around and see if the next round dies too. If you kill your kids, you don’t get to be a mother again. You don’t get a soft landing and a second family. Life without parole. Lock the door. Stop experimenting on other people’s children and making excuses. Convict her. Convict those who harm children. Period.
- Sep 11, 202623x their median
Meet Shelly Kates Headen, a Democrat candidate for NC House. She hoped for an attack on U.S. soil targeting red states She should drop out immediately. She doesn’t belong anywhere public office Psychotic behavior https://t.co/zypCgliKYC
- Sep 11, 202620x their median
Professor at @CarnegieMellon btw https://t.co/qsc4CkkD85
- Sep 9, 202612x their median
Fact https://t.co/d9DRWFZT8A
- Sep 12, 202611x their median
Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely.
- Oct 13, 20116.1x their median
@glennbeck I am 17 high school student, listen to you everyday. I speak for local Tea Party's about debt and deficit. Fight Liberal bias
- Aug 24, 20265.8x their median
So far, in the 2026 elections, 50 mega donors have spent $1.6 BILLION. 🟦George Soros (D): $102M 🟥Jeffrey & Janine Yass (R): $93.8M 🟥Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen (R): $91.3M 🟥Elon Musk (R): $90.6M 🟥Elizabeth & Richard Uihlein (R): $70M 🟥Miriam Adelson (R): $67.6M 🟥Greg & Anna Brockman (R): $50M 🟥Paul Singer (R): $37.1M 🟥Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss (R): $33.2M 🟥Ken Griffin (R): $32.5M Billionaires — in either party — should not be able to buy elections. That is not democracy. That is a corrupt campaign finance system. We need to end Citizens United. We need to get super PACs out of our elections. We need public funding of elections.
- Aug 24, 20265.0x their median
The moment the league didn’t discipline Sophie Cunningham for her transphobic comments, they set the table for almost all of this political discourse and nastiness towards the trans community. Her conduct has objectively been detrimental to the league.
- Sep 1, 20264.4x their median
All Republicans should support the Republican nominee in the U.S. Senate race in Texas
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
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 3.9K interactions against 702K followers, an engagement rate of 0.55%. Measured over 43 original posts, its engagement rate beats 93% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 62K times each, and 6.27% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.80% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 43 posts sampled, 70% carry an image or video and 9% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 842K interactions, about 220x its own typical post.
- What is Mike Lee's engagement rate on X?
- Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) has an engagement rate of 0.55%, based on the median interactions across 43 original posts from the last 30 days against 702,473 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.55%, Mike Lee sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,880 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 @BasedMikeLee have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 93% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the top 10% for its size 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 @BasedMikeLee post?
- Most posts go out around 22:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.43 posts per day across the measured window.