Middle East Eye engagement report
@MiddleEastEye - 643K followers on X
Measured over 85 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 23 interactions against 643K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 85 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 20,444 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 6.3K times each, and 0.367% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.974% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 85 posts sampled, 26% carry an image or video, 18% are part of a thread and 55% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.4K interactions, about 189x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #yemen, #saudi, #afghanistan.
Measured over 85 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 6, 2026. Recurring tags: #yemen, #saudi, #afghanistan.
Compared with accounts its own size
Middle East Eye's engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 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 0.004%, Middle East Eye sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 15:00 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% | 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 | 26% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 55% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 26% 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.
- 55% 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 231 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 12, 2026189x their median
In 2004, US soldier Joseph Darby was handed a CD containing photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused and humiliated inside Abu Ghraib. Darby secretly handed the images to army investigators, exposing a scandal that would shock the world https://t.co/cpBJ0H6iEw
- Aug 31, 202658x their median
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has shared a disturbing concentration camp video depicting Palestinians being placed into a machine on a conveyor belt, entering overweight and emerging thin, distressed and crying. The video comes as Ben-Gvir openly advocates to make already difficult conditions harsher for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. He has boasted that “the good conditions in the prisons are over” and said he was “pleased” with the conditions under his policies. Ben-Gvir has also championed the death penalty for Palestinians and shared footage of a facility being prepared for executions, saying that “the death row and hanging facility are also starting to take shape”. His 50th birthday cake was decorated with a noose and the words “Sometimes dreams come true”. Ben-Gvir is known for his extremist views, having in the past praised a mass murderer of Palestinians, while also calling for targeted killings in Gaza “every night” to “kill 30 or 40” Palestinians, and advocating the forced migration of Palestinians from Gaza.
- Sep 2, 202650x their median
Audience members laughed and cheered on Mosab Hassan Youssef as he called on Muslims to “get the fuck out of the United States” and return to the “shitholes” where they came from, during a talk at the Jewish American Summit in Los Angeles on Sunday. https://t.co/cd0M8kSrrv
- Sep 13, 202640x their median
Layan Alquqa, a young Palestinian artist from Gaza, was visibly overjoyed after actor and activist Mark Ruffalo responded to a message she and other children created through the Echo of the Survivors initiative. Ruffalo thanked Layan “from the bottom of my heart,” praised the children’s artwork and told her she deserves “a wonderful and safe life like all the other children of the world.” “You are not alone,” Ruffalo told Layan, encouraging her to “stay strong and keep an open heart.” Layan’s emotional reaction to the message has since resonated across social media, highlighting a deeply personal connection between children in Gaza and supporters around the world.
- Oct 5, 202640x their median
#ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II unseals four warrants of arrest issued in the #Afghanistan situation against Mr Haibatullah Akhundzada, Mr Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Mr Habibullah Agha and Mr Neda Mohammad Nadim⤵️ https://t.co/LKmot06bf6
- Sep 13, 202623x their median
Italians gathered on the beach outside the Venice Film Festival to fly kites in solidarity with Gaza, calling for the Palestinian flag to be displayed at next year’s festival. The demonstration was organised by the Global Sumud Flotilla and local pro-Palestinian organisations, with participants saying the kites symbolise solidarity with children in Gaza who cannot freely play or fly kites without being attacked. It comes amid Israeli threats over kites flown in Gaza, including an incident in which a four-year-old child and three other Palestinians were killed, as Netanyahu threatened to intensify attacks over the flying of kites. Parents in Gaza are hiding or destroying their children’s kites and stopping them from flying them over fears of attacks by Israeli forces.
- Oct 5, 202617x their median
CIA report warns of civil conflict and 'collapse' in Israel: Report
- Oct 5, 202611x their median
A dozen Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting their olive trees in the occupied West Bank village of Usarin on Saturday morning. CCTV footage showed masked settlers descending on Usarin, breaking into a Palestinian home's front garden and smashing their car https://t.co/TBYjXdqOtO
- Sep 13, 202610.0x their median
"He'd been told what was going to happen." Benjamin Netanyahu had been warned that Hamas was planning an attack before October 7, Hillary Clinton said, describing it as a failure of leadership and a failure to protect the people of Israel. Clinton referred to the warning from UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and said Netanyahu “had been told what was going to happen.” She then implied that Netanyahu may have wanted the attack to happen so that he could “come down hard” and enhance his position politically. “I don’t know what his thinking was,” Clinton said. “But the bottom line, talk about a failure of imagination. This was a failure of leadership. This was a failure of protecting the people of Israel.” Her remarks put Netanyahu’s handling of the intelligence under scrutiny, raising questions over what he knew before October 7 and why Israel chose to let the attack happen.
- Oct 5, 20269.4x their median
"The Channel 4 film Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed shows how the Foreign Office repeatedly failed to hold the Israeli army to account for war crimes" ✍️ Opinion by Peter Oborne https://t.co/H5fRtfLrzX
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 23 interactions against 643K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 85 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 20,444 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 6.3K times each, and 0.367% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 0.974% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 13% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 85 posts sampled, 26% carry an image or video, 18% are part of a thread and 55% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 4.4K interactions, about 189x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #yemen, #saudi, #afghanistan.
- What is Middle East Eye's engagement rate on X?
- Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 85 original posts from the last 30 days against 642,958 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Middle East Eye sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 @MiddleEastEye have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 @MiddleEastEye post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.97 posts per day across the measured window.