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Raffi Melkonian engagement report

@RMFifthCircuit - 65K followers on X

Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.202%
of 65K followers
Per impression
0.866%
15K views on a typical post
Reach
23.3%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
131
interactions (median)
Saved
0.086%
13 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.97/day
active 47% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 131 interactions against 65K followers, an engagement rate of 0.202%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% 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 15K times each, and 0.866% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 23.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.97 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 44% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.1K interactions, about 24x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #appellateplaces, #scotus, #uchicagolaw.

Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 23, 2026. Recurring tags: #appellateplaces, #scotus, #uchicagolaw.

Compared with accounts its own size

Raffi Melkonian's engagement rate beats 61% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 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 35% 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 0.202%, Raffi Melkonian sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,048 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.678%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 205,048 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,894 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 percentile0.678%
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 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday 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: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 13:00 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: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Wednesday
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 video78% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link33% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 78% 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.
  • 33% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 201 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 21, 202624x their median

    BREAKING: The 8th Circuit has ordred Missouri to reinstate the GOP-friendly gerrymander that appeared dead multiple times after SCOTUS blocked it during previous rounds of litigation. Back to SCOTUS we go. https://t.co/vAMn9nz0rR

    2.3K59910575634K viewsView on X
  • Oct 26, 20167.4x their median

    Hey #appellatetwitter: I collected all our verbal crutches in a google drive document. Let me know of others. https://t.co/odwEqXB4to

    7338610540View on X
  • Aug 22, 20262.9x their median

    Gotta say, I do not think most federal appellate judges agree with Judge Thapar that you should petition for mandamus if a district court takes more than 6 months to rule on a motion https://t.co/vLD7Ati67R https://t.co/sQjNLSCTjw

    31316391077K viewsView on X
  • Jul 31, 20262.4x their median

    A strong dissent from denial of rehearing by Judge Willett in McKesson - the case where the Fifth Circuit upheld liability for a Black Lives Matter leader when there is no evidence he had anything at all to do with a police officer's injury. 1/ https://t.co/WVmhrYQwDN https://t.co/eundlFeMpb

    2534610679K viewsView on X
  • Jul 6, 20262.4x their median

    I am totally delighted by this contract case from CA5 just now. To summarize: an ambiguous contract's provision is dispositively decided by a single guy's testimony about what it means, because HE NEGOTIATED IT ON BEHALF OF BOTH SIGNATORIES. https://t.co/mJwUOca2Bz

    27118131056K viewsView on X
  • Sep 10, 20261.8x their median

    Got some good appellate swag. https://t.co/hzDUZ6tI6m

    2276306.7K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 20261.8x their median

    We had our first moot in our new office's moot court room today. Should have brought sparkling apple juice! https://t.co/1ALxkt5bES

    217313123K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 2026

    One plus of being an appellate lawyer with a semi-national practice is seeing the differences in custom around the country. I was in the Colorado CO yesterday, and in that process learned that Colorado appellate lawyers announce their Bar numbers from the lectern!

    170512115K viewsView on X
  • Sep 14, 2026

    So how does an insurance coverage case about whether "My 600 pound life" is a reality show become a 52-page opinion involving three separate writings? https://t.co/8uluZjcr9U https://t.co/3nyvAL33KV

    1351110418K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 2026

    BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants cert in dispute over Constitution's excessive fines clause, case focuses on $95,000 airplane forfeited over 3 cases of beer illegally transported by passenger https://t.co/BnSh3M6SoM

    116304845K 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.

Recurring topics

#appellateplaces#scotus#uchicagolaw

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 131 interactions against 65K followers, an engagement rate of 0.202%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 61% 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 15K times each, and 0.866% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 23.3% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.97 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 47% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 78% carry an image or video, 44% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.1K interactions, about 24x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #appellateplaces, #scotus, #uchicagolaw.

What is Raffi Melkonian's engagement rate on X?
Raffi Melkonian (@RMFifthCircuit) has an engagement rate of 0.202%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 64,950 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.202%, Raffi Melkonian sits above the 50th percentile of the 205,048 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 @RMFifthCircuit have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 61% 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 @RMFifthCircuit post?
Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.97 posts per day across the measured window.

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