Middle East Observer engagement report
@ME_Observer_ - 379K followers on X
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 24 interactions against 379K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,810 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 4.7K times each, and 0.519% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 18% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.0K interactions, about 124x its own typical post.
Measured over 40 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Middle East Observer's engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 6 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 26% 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 0.006%, Middle East Observer sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,960 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.435% |
| 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 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 51K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 53K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 73K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 96K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 102K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 92K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 67K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 233K |
| Monday | 0% | 292K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 284K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 253K |
| Thursday | -2% | 246K |
| Friday | -3% | 255K |
| Saturday | +3% | 229K |
Best tweets
- Apr 2, 2026124x their median
⚡️⭕️ URGENT APPEAL TO ACTION: HELP LEBANON. The Naseroon Network that built 2 camps and over 300 tents in Gaza is now working in Lebanon and needs our help as there are over 250,000 Lebanese refugees who are stranded in the streets in addition to the 750,000 others who are in schools, centers, and appartments. The Lebanese Government still does not consider itself at war and does not see any refugee issues happening, so we are the only ones who can help Lebanon collectively together. Naseroon has it's own group of volunteers but they also work with existing organizations that are effective by financing them and helping them too, they are building a network to make help the most effective as possible. Naseroon is still operating in Gaza as we speek and helping thousands. Please help them, thank you. Counting on you.
- Sep 1, 202610x their median
⚡️⭕️ US Navy Commander Daryl Caudle announces US forces will not return to Bahrain base in near future; USS Theodore Roosevelt to replace USS George Washington in Arabian Sea. (IRIB News) https://t.co/iFivzfyhuD
- Sep 1, 20264.6x their median
⚡️⭕️ Iran: Major General Abdollahi, Chief of Staff of Armed Forces, emphasizes air defense strategy of intercepting hostile targets at farthest possible points, stressing reliance on domestic capabilities. (IRIB News) https://t.co/GxLeuIfpgu
- Sep 1, 20263.5x their median
⚡️⭕️ Strait of Hormuz: IRGC targets two violating oil tankers; US Army Secretary Dan Driskell resigns amid tensions over Pentagon dismissals. (Rasd Akhbar Shehaba, IRIB News)
- Sep 1, 20262.8x their median
⚡️⭕️ Syria: Large explosion reported in an ammunition depot in Binnish, Idlib province. Cause not yet known. (IRIB News) https://t.co/fiEn84gzHQ
- Sep 1, 20262.5x their median
⚡️⭕️ Iran: Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref says the fundamental issue in the Hormuz Strait is to provide welfare for regional peoples, not confrontation, and calls on Gulf states to heed advice despite enemy exploitation of their resources. (Al Mayadeen Breaking)
- Sep 1, 20262.1x their median
⚡️⭕️ Iran's Science Minister: US sanctioning of TOEFL exam for Iranians constitutes "Stone Age" behavior. (IRIB News) https://t.co/RPHDzoZrXR
- Sep 1, 20262.0x their median
⚡️⭕️ Shanghai Cooperation Organization affirms support for Iran's sovereignty and territorial integrity; calls for just Palestinian settlement and compliance with Chemical Weapons Convention. (Al Mayadeen Breaking)
- Sep 1, 20261.7x their median
⚡️⭕️ Iran: Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref says the country will not back down under any circumstances for national interests and is skilled in dialogue, while stressing it fights bravely but is not seeking war. (Al Mayadeen Breaking)
- Sep 1, 20261.7x their median
⚡️⭕️ Gaza: Israeli Defense Minister Katz announces arrest of a senior Hamas leader from inside Gaza Strip. Security sources report the detainee is head of Hamas's internal security apparatus and was injured during the operation. (Al Mayadeen Breaking, Rasd al Maidan)
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 24 interactions against 379K followers, an engagement rate of 0.006%. Measured over 40 original posts, its engagement rate beats 15% of 3,810 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 4.7K times each, and 0.519% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.24% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.3 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 3% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 40 posts sampled, 18% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.0K interactions, about 124x its own typical post.
- What is Middle East Observer's engagement rate on X?
- Middle East Observer (@ME_Observer_) has an engagement rate of 0.006%, based on the median interactions across 40 original posts from the last 30 days against 379,368 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.006%, Middle East Observer sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,960 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 @ME_Observer_ have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 15% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,810 accounts), which puts it in the bottom 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 @ME_Observer_ post?
- Most posts go out around 08:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.33 posts per day across the measured window.