Gary Shteyngart engagement report
@Shteyngart - 486K followers on X
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 22, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 74 interactions against 486K followers, an engagement rate of 0.015%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% of 21,185 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 5.7K times each, and 1.31% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 50x its own typical post.
Measured over 9 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 22, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Gary Shteyngart's engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 54% 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 0.015%, Gary Shteyngart sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,825 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.025%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.025% |
| 50th percentile | 0.146% |
| 75th percentile | 0.697% |
| 90th percentile | 2.61% |
| 99th percentile | 83.0% |
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 14:00 UTC, and Sunday 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 | 89% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 11% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | -3% | -3% to -2% | 54K |
- 89% 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.
- 11% 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 138 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
- Jun 17, 202650x their median
🚨WATCH: In another stunning statement, Trump just normalized Iran having a ballistic missile program: “In other words, they must have missiles to some degree, because others have them. When others have them, you need to have them too. There are people who say: 'It is forbidden to give them even one missile'. I have such people around me - I like some of them, but I don't think they are particularly smart. They say: 'We must not allow them to hold any missiles'. So I asked: What exactly are you proposing? That we allow Saudi Arabia to hold missiles, but not Iran? And they answered: 'Yes, sir'. It simply doesn't work that way. And missiles are not the real problem. Missiles can hit a specific target, but they do not destroy the world."
- Jun 18, 202645x their median
Una de las imágenes que hará perpetuar el ataque ucraniano de hoy a Moscú es la de la tapa de un depósito de combustible buscando huir hacia la estratósfera, para reunirse con las torres de los tanques que en 2022 intentaron tomar Ucrania Videos de @Exilenova_plus https://t.co/ObtEI64qke
- Jun 24, 202679x their median
The president is now accusing the Senate of treason. https://t.co/Zc756GDF75
- Jul 28, 202629x their median
Sources involved in the US-Iran negotiations say the American concessions are substantial. Trump's people have expressed de facto willingness to pay Iran for ship passage through the Strait of Hormuz, contrary to international norms. Iran says it has sold $18 billion in oil since the US blockade of the Strait of Oman was lifted. - Israel Hayom
- Oct 30, 201816x their median
Wait, what the hell is happening now? Whatever it is, it's bullshit.
- Sep 23, 202614x their median
1/ Russian soldiers are telling their relatives that they are being forcibly tattooed on their chests with "death numbers" – their military ID numbers – before going on assault missions, presumably to make their bodies more easily identifiable if and when they are recovered. ⬇️ https://t.co/XLZYBRftrJ
- Sep 21, 20262.6x their median
Late for drinks because some piece of shit politician has to get to his gilded fuck palace in the sky in time for his 6pm diaper change. https://t.co/JiYUlqmOQ5
- Aug 2, 20262.1x their median
One of the reasons I chose to live upstate are restaurants like @swoonkitchenbar which showed up in Hudson over two decades ago. They haven’t lost a beat. Insane fried artichokes, silky salmon pate, the best local cheeses, kimchi dumplings…it’s like coming home. https://t.co/toMtf5syI8
- Aug 11, 20262.0x their median
I cannot imagine the size of this cart. https://t.co/JarrYWKO4T
- Oct 3, 20261.8x their median
Back to NYC for a chilled red, a warm snout and the bocadillo Bar Jamon. https://t.co/PTauaSdiX3
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 74 interactions against 486K followers, an engagement rate of 0.015%. Measured over 9 original posts, its engagement rate beats 40% of 21,185 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 5.7K times each, and 1.31% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 1.17% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 9 posts sampled, 89% carry an image or video and 11% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.3K interactions, about 50x its own typical post.
- What is Gary Shteyngart's engagement rate on X?
- Gary Shteyngart (@Shteyngart) has an engagement rate of 0.015%, based on the median interactions across 9 original posts from the last 30 days against 485,771 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.015%, Gary Shteyngart sits above the 10th percentile of the 212,825 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 @Shteyngart have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 40% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (21,185 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 @Shteyngart post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.4 posts per day across the measured window.