John Harwood engagement report
@JohnJHarwood - 504K followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.1K interactions against 504K followers, an engagement rate of 0.213%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 80% of 3,862 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 331K times each, and 0.325% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 65.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 60% carry an image or video and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.5K interactions, about 6.9x its own typical post.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
John Harwood's engagement rate beats 80% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 25% 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 0.213%, John Harwood sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,459 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.438%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.438% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 159.8% |
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 23:00 UTC, and Monday 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% | 52K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 62K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 71K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 74K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 97K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 100K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 104K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 101K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 94K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 87K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 82K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 68K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 59K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 236K |
| Monday | 0% | 298K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 295K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 255K |
| Thursday | -1% | 249K |
| Friday | -3% | 257K |
| Saturday | +3% | 231K |
Best tweets
- Apr 18, 20246.9x their median
my first column for @zeteo_news: how cancer changed my perspective on the threat to democracy https://t.co/eLIMI2mSrA
- Aug 26, 20266.6x their median
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says donating to charity is net negative "The common view is that philanthropy is this noble cause, and Bill Gates is like 'I'm going to go rehabilitate my image and do philanthropy.'" "A lot of charities and philanthropies are actually net negative for the world and they get captured. It's remarkably hard to find a foundation that has not gotten captured by ideology.” “By trying to do something good, like criminal justice reform, it turns out they just increased crime. I have a donor advised fund and I put money toward things helping civilization advance, but I don't think at this moment I would ever create a foundation." "If you look at the Ford Foundation, I think Henry Ford would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they were up to.” “I have a DAF, a donor advised fund, and I just try to put money toward things that I think are helping civilization advance. But I don't think at this moment I would ever create a foundation."
- Aug 25, 20265.8x their median
“What Trump is doing is he's instituting a worldwide trade extortion scheme. The tariffs are not about any particular outcome. They're about going to each country and saying, ‘Hey, nice country you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.’ And what he's seeking from each of these countries is submission. He wants them to submit their economic Independence and sovereignty to him.” “And of course, the effect that that has in those countries is the opposite of what he wants. It puts the incentive to all of the politicians in Canada to oppose him, because if they do submit, they'd be thrown out of office right away. So what he's done is he's ensured the failure of his own policy and in doing so, ensured that the retaliation will come.” “Now, while it's true that Canada will suffer more than the Americans, it's also true that the Canadians are so pissed off at us right now - 80% of Canadians are against the United States, for the first time in living memory - that they're willing to suffer more for the point of maintaining their sovereignty and standing up to Trump. And that's not the case in Michigan. That's not the case in Maine. People in America are not a fan of these trade wars. They’re not on board with Trump’s strategy.” “So there will be political consequences, not for Trump, because he is not running, but for Republicans. But it's pretty clear that Trump doesn't care about that.”
- Aug 26, 20265.0x their median
CBS News: Grand jury finds Ron DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida A state grand jury found the DeSantis administration "misappropriated" taxpayer money when it diverted $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation, arguing the transfer was "part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities," according to a copy of the sealed grand jury report obtained by CBS News Miami. Link to article: https://t.co/KWrq4IOmle
- Aug 24, 2026
Kelsey Grammer: We have had social security forever. It's always out of money. That's the greatest socialist program Why don’t we allow people invest 12% of their income themselves and retire off of it, they would all be millionaires. https://t.co/dMjl4GGiDF
- Aug 27, 2026
Exclusive: Donald Trump Jr. tells Republican state attorneys general to “back off” on prediction markets Via @yaffebellany and @SharonLNYT for @NYTimes https://t.co/msdKzlPBmH
- Aug 25, 2026
"Ticket sales and fundraising collapsed after Trump’s name was added to the Kennedy Center, even as the center’s leaders publicly touted a financial turnaround." they know they are inept and loathsome they try to mask it by lying https://t.co/oLnfr9EpvL
- Aug 24, 2026
I'm Bloomberg's new Treasury Department reporter in Washington, covering Secretary Bessent, his team, fiscal policy, treasuries, sanctions and the national debt. Send me story ideas and add me to press lists at [email protected]
- Aug 23, 2026
Is it appropriate for Jon Ossoff joke about Natalie Harp's work for President Trump? Democrat @ChristySmithCA says it's not. "He broke a cardinal rule...he punched down. This young woman is doing her job in the White House...on our side, we need to learn from past mistakes like what happened to Monica Lewinsky...we don't do this to women...we are the party that should be standing with women." Republican L.A. GOP chair @RoxanneHoge: "that is completely scurrilous." Via @cnnthestoryis
- Aug 24, 2026
What I want more than anything is a grandchild. But what if he rats me out for letting him watch cartoons and eat ice cream sandwiches?
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 1.1K interactions against 504K followers, an engagement rate of 0.213%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 80% of 3,862 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 331K times each, and 0.325% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 65.7% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 17% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 60% carry an image or video and 30% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 7.5K interactions, about 6.9x its own typical post.
- What is John Harwood's engagement rate on X?
- John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) has an engagement rate of 0.213%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 503,904 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.213%, John Harwood sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,459 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 @JohnJHarwood have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 80% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter 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 @JohnJHarwood post?
- Most posts go out around 23:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.27 posts per day across the measured window.