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Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY engagement report

@Michael_Yon - 234K followers on X

Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.069%
of 234K followers
Per impression
1.86%
8.7K views on a typical post
Reach
3.71%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
161
interactions (median)
Saved
0.104%
9 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
4.4/day
active 87% of days
Peak time
12:00 UTC
Thursday

A typical post picks up 161 interactions against 234K followers, an engagement rate of 0.069%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 20,444 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 8.7K times each, and 1.86% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.70% 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, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 86% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 104K interactions, about 647x its own typical post.

Measured over 57 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026.

Compared with accounts its own size

Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY's engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 60% 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 0.069%, Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,694 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,880 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 percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

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 12:00 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.

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: 12:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 12:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%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 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
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: Thursday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Thursday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

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.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video61% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link86% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 61% 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.
  • 86% 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 143 characters, which falls in the 80 - 180 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 80 to 180 characters run 3% below the same accounts' other posts.

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 9, 2026647x their median

    Well Well Well... look who got caught again... Every single time. "Tourist" caught setting forest fires in Columbia. https://t.co/o1SAMB9rYx

    80K22K1.1K5041.3M viewsView on X
  • Sep 20, 2026142x their median

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    16K5.7K499399386K viewsView on X
  • Sep 28, 202648x their median

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    6.4K48879353139K viewsView on X
  • Sep 5, 202628x their median

    He Lied About The Shots He’s Lying About Data Centers He’s Walking Us Into NWO HE IS A TRAITOR https://t.co/ooZ4aXP4pE

    3.1K1.1K1877554K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202625x their median

    Milei speaking at a high school today: "I know this is a secular institution, but I want to pass on to you the values of Judaism that are a determining factor in the construciton of our politics." https://t.co/j68C1bMo1f

    2.8K717257168195K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 202614x their median

    Huge win for America’s farmers and ranchers. Trump just authorized them to process their own meat and break the packing monopoly that’s squeezed them for decades. They raise the cattle. Now they can sell the steaks. More money stays on the ranch where it belongs. https://t.co/nhkLdVJZTU

    1.6K4641955540K viewsView on X
  • Sep 9, 20268.1x their median

    ishowSpeed put the new AirPods 5 Live Translation to the ultimate test: a real conversation with a Japanese fan on stream. The feature uses Apple Intelligence to translate what someone is saying and play it back through the AirPods in your preferred language. Speed’s reaction when it actually worked says everything 🔥 Writer: Sol https://t.co/iXzUJMymXp

    1.2K793318193K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20265.1x their median

    NEW: Russia says it successfully test-launched a mobile solid-fuel ICBM from Plesetsk, with training warheads reaching the Kura range in Kamchatka. The system was not officially named, but the setup strongly resembles the RS-24 Yars. https://t.co/6MvUcLXjl6

    6881101511184K viewsView on X
  • Aug 31, 20264.9x their median

    This is a David and Goliath story unfolding in the Pacific. I’m here in Palau for the Pacific Islands Forum, where a nation of just 18,000 people is standing up to the Chinese Communist Party. Beijing is ramping up pressure over Palau’s relationship with Taiwan, even portraying the island nation as a dangerous place for tourists while trying to push Taiwan out of the forum. But Palau isn’t backing down, and now the United States is stepping in against Beijing’s pressure campaign. Several Pacific Island leaders have opted not to come—with pressure from Beijing almost certainly contributing, say experts on the region.

    558183292249K viewsView on X
  • Sep 29, 20264.5x their median

    Fasting: Day 29 - Kinjiro Day 2 @Michael_Yon https://t.co/M6VyOtVMzq https://t.co/UUXk1eCRcw

    640344216.9K 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 161 interactions against 234K followers, an engagement rate of 0.069%. Measured over 57 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 20,444 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 8.7K times each, and 1.86% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.70% 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, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 57 posts sampled, 61% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 86% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 104K interactions, about 647x its own typical post.

What is Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY's engagement rate on X?
Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY (@Michael_Yon) has an engagement rate of 0.069%, based on the median interactions across 57 original posts from the last 30 days against 234,461 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.069%, Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 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 @Michael_Yon have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @Michael_Yon post?
Most posts go out around 12:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.4 posts per day across the measured window.

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