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HuffPost engagement report

@HuffPost - 9.9M followers on X

Measured over 173 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Engagement

Bottom 10% for its size
Per follower
0%
of 9.9M followers
Per impression
0.061%
31K views on a typical post
Reach
0.31%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
19
interactions (median)
Saved
0.003%
1 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
7.43/day
active 70% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 19 interactions against 9.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 173 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 31K times each, and 0.061% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.313% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 173 posts sampled, 37% carry an image or video, 18% are part of a thread and 64% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.4K interactions, about 179x its own typical post.

Measured over 173 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

HuffPost's engagement rate beats 6% 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 4% 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 under 0.001%, HuffPost sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.08%
p750.431%
p902.10%
p99160.7%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 36,261 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 107,137 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 percentile0.431%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile160.7%

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 18:00 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.

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: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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%51K
08:00 UTC-4%60K
09:00 UTC-3%69K
10:00 UTC-2%71K
11:00 UTC-3%78K
12:00 UTC-2%86K
13:00 UTC-2%93K
14:00 UTC-3%96K
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
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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+4%229K
Monday0%284K
Tuesday-2%273K
Wednesday-1%250K
Thursday-2%243K
Friday-3%251K
Saturday+3%226K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jan 23, 2025179x their median

    The next four years will change America forever. But HuffPost won't back down when it comes to providing free and impartial journalism. We’re offering an ad-free experience to those who support our fearless newsroom: https://t.co/lftKZQCXE7 https://t.co/GDHmpLoSGW

    8066191.9K42600K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 202653x their median

    NEW -- Yes, Donald Trump abandoned AF crew, Secret Service agents, journalists and his own WH staff as a decoy while he secreted his own catering-truck escape, but that was a sacrifice the president was willing to make. https://t.co/MKpt3UWsfc

    72822948819K viewsView on X
  • Aug 26, 202618x their median

    The president’s eldest daughter proved she has zero self-awareness while sharing her favorite quote by the late country music legend. https://t.co/5aEUxfvuDQ

    30821141488K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 202618x their median

    The news comes some 48 hours after now-former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced her exit Wednesday. https://t.co/zj3Wh6mMPx

    27937233610K viewsView on X
  • Aug 25, 202614x their median

    The family of the ICU nurse killed by federal immigration officers in Minnesota seeks justice in an interview seven months after his death: “There was more effort in vilifying him.” https://t.co/93gHEROKtE

    199498131K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20266.7x their median

    BREAKING: Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder and conspiracy theorist, lost in his race to claim the GOP nomination for Minnesota governor. https://t.co/PkMz2OKCer

    991014448K viewsView on X
  • Aug 13, 20266.1x their median

    BREAKING: Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old accused of brazenly killing a healthcare CEO on the streets of Manhattan, is poised to accept a deal with prosecutors to settle the federal stalking charges against him, according to The Associated Press. https://t.co/VBIHhLcKsY

    881792170K viewsView on X
  • Aug 12, 20265.5x their median

    JUST IN: President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be leaving her role at the end of the month. https://t.co/tEtETmdiMW

    601918898K viewsView on X
  • Aug 19, 20265.0x their median

    Harp was told there was not enough room in the motorcade, CNN alleges, which prompted “a screaming match.” https://t.co/E4FHU65NUH

    68195358K viewsView on X
  • Aug 21, 20264.5x their median

    Where past appearances have drawn scrutiny for Melania’s stiffness or visible discomfort, Thursday’s appearances read differently to the experts who reviewed it. https://t.co/TOJYaBG7qr

    579182156K 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 19 interactions against 9.9M followers, an engagement rate of 0%. Measured over 173 original posts, its engagement rate beats 6% of 3,739 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 31K times each, and 0.061% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.313% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 7.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 70% of days. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 173 posts sampled, 37% carry an image or video, 18% are part of a thread and 64% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.4K interactions, about 179x its own typical post.

What is HuffPost's engagement rate on X?
HuffPost (@HuffPost) has an engagement rate of 0%, based on the median interactions across 173 original posts from the last 30 days against 9,909,005 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At under 0.001%, HuffPost sits below the 10th percentile of the 36,261 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 @HuffPost have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 6% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,739 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @HuffPost post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 7.43 posts per day across the measured window.

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