Michael Kugelman engagement report
@MichaelKugelman - 243K followers on X
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 122 interactions against 243K followers, an engagement rate of 0.05%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 20,183 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 15K times each, and 0.831% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.9K interactions, about 56x its own typical post.
Measured over 10 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 27, 2026. Recurring tag: #watch.
Compared with accounts its own size
Michael Kugelman's engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 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 38% 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 0.05%, Michael Kugelman sits above the 25th percentile of the 202,076 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.142%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.672% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.5% |
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 13:00 UTC, and Thursday 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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 50% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 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.
- 50% 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 264 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 17, 202656x their median
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: No non-Western leader has done more to try to get Putin to end his war than Modi. He hasn’t succeeded, but no other figure outside the West has tried more.
- Jul 26, 202635x their median
Why isn’t Pakistan experiencing a mass youth-led movement for change, as we’ve seen recently in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and now India? It’s a fair Q; the drivers of these movements-corruption, repression, joblessness, alienation-are very present in Pakistan. Some thoughts:
- Aug 8, 202635x their median
Pakistan wants foreign media focusing on its achievements abroad, not its problems at home. So it’s really shot itself in the foot w/its draconian new rules for foreign media reporting in Pak. These rules have made global headlines & highlight widening repression trends in Pak.
- Aug 22, 202618x their median
The political temperature is rising in Pakistan. The govt has defied a Supreme Court order meant to address what’s long been PTI’s biggest concern-Imran Khan’s health. PTI mobilizations are possible, which today’s announcement of army deployments in Rawalpindi likely anticipates.
- May 24, 20268.0x their median
🇺🇸🇸🇦President Trump told leaders of Arab and Muslim countries during a Saturday conference call that if a deal to end the Iran war is achieved he wants their nations to join the Abraham Accords and sign peace agreements with Israel. My story on @axios https://t.co/2wjbpf0Tej
- Jul 23, 202612x their median
India’s Cockroach Movement is one of the few big anti-govt campaigns to emerge in the Modi era & could become his biggest challenge over his 12 yrs in power. It’s a reminder for Delhi that in politics, nothing can be taken for granted. For @Foreignpolicy: https://t.co/meRxcG4sjq
- Aug 18, 202611x their median
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the jailed Imran Khan to be transferred to a hospital. This is a major win for his party, which had long sought this move even as the government claimed Khan’s health was in good hands and downplayed reports that his health was worsening.
- May 25, 20265.1x their median
In the past, some Pakistani civ and mil officials had informal links w/Israel. But Islamabad has always linked recognition of Israel to the establishment of a Palestinian state. That’s been an ironclad position. So for now, joining the Abraham Accords is a nonstarter for Pak.
- Jul 21, 202610x their median
It’s not just in India where young people are protesting about education-it’s recently happened in Nepal & Bangladesh too. What links them: Large youth bulges, grievances against ed policy, concerns about joblessness, and a view that the state doesn’t treat them with dignity.
- Jun 21, 202610x their median
The origins of Pakistan’s Iran mediation, which continues at today’s talks, can actually be traced back to the earlier Iran conflict a year ago. Munir/Sharif visited Iran, Trump hosted Munir at WH, and Trump/Rubio praised Pak for knowing Iran well and being willing to mediate.
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 122 interactions against 243K followers, an engagement rate of 0.05%. Measured over 10 original posts, its engagement rate beats 47% of 20,183 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 15K times each, and 0.831% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.03% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.43 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 10 posts sampled, 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 6.9K interactions, about 56x its own typical post.
- What is Michael Kugelman's engagement rate on X?
- Michael Kugelman (@MichaelKugelman) has an engagement rate of 0.05%, based on the median interactions across 10 original posts from the last 30 days against 243,461 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.05%, Michael Kugelman sits above the 25th percentile of the 202,076 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 @MichaelKugelman have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 47% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 @MichaelKugelman post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.43 posts per day across the measured window.