Aaron Maté engagement report
@aaronjmate - 492K followers on X
Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 907 interactions against 492K followers, an engagement rate of 0.184%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 57K times each, and 1.59% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.6% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 71% carry an image or video and 36% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.5K interactions, about 3.8x its own typical post.
Measured over 14 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 28, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Aaron Maté's engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 63% 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 0.184%, Aaron Maté sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.081% |
| 75th percentile | 0.439% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 155.6% |
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 16:00 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.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 53K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 52K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 55K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 44K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 43K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 50K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 54K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 63K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 72K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 75K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 81K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 98K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 101K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 105K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 102K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 88K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 77K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 69K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 60K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 53K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 238K |
| Monday | 0% | 302K |
| Tuesday | -3% | 302K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 257K |
| Thursday | -2% | 250K |
| Friday | -3% | 259K |
| Saturday | +3% | 233K |
Best tweets
- Jul 8, 20263.8x their median
My debut book, "Their Blood, Our Bullets: The Hidden Story of the US–Russia War for Ukraine", is now available for pre-order. @orbooks https://t.co/9ITWyIeTuH
- Aug 26, 20263.1x their median
I will not tolerate Wire slander. Get a hobby. https://t.co/jZoKVVizh8
- Aug 21, 20261.8x their median
Why 'American Doctor' Director Quit Her ABC Executive Job and Drained Her Savings Account to Make a Documentary About Gaza Healthcare Workers https://t.co/xv3W3GYBAB
- Aug 19, 20261.7x their median
Earhardt: El-Sayed is out in these tight T shirts. AOC with her pretty smile. She's beautiful. She's got the red lipstick. You have Mamdani. It doesn't make their philosophy any less dangerous, right? https://t.co/TPIPjXN7jg
- Aug 27, 20261.7x their median
CNN news reader Dana Bash slanders Hasan Piker and condemns him for saying almost exactly what she herself said during her friendly interview with Netanyahu a month prior. https://t.co/GTn9WpojnZ
- Aug 27, 2026
The initial spin was that CIA chief John Ratcliffe went to Moscow to warn against an attack on NATO territory. One day later, the new spin is that Ratcliffe was actually there in friendship: concerned that Putin is not getting "honest assessments of the conflict" from his aides, the CIA wanted to hand-deliver a hard dose of reality and urge him to end the war while he still can. 🤔
- Aug 19, 2026
Proudly hating on Alexander Vindman and his neocon ways since 2019 🫡 https://t.co/cHvW00gWUF
- Aug 25, 2026
“Ukraine appears to be slowly losing the war against Russia, ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told Reuters, warning that Kyiv has a window of several months to make key decisions needed to turn the tide in its favour. Fedorov, a young reformer whose dismissal last month sparked weeks of protests, said Ukraine lacked any overall vision for how to win the four-year-old conflict, and was hobbled by its failure to innovate… ‘I think that there's now a turning point which will determine our future trajectory, but it looks as though we're gradually, slowly losing,’ Fedorov said in a marked departure from Kyiv's official rhetoric. Ukraine still had ‘every chance’ to win but urgently needed a plan to end the war, he added.” @Max_Hunder https://t.co/MST3k9zELO
- Aug 26, 2026
BIG: CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise visit to Moscow this week to warn Russia not to attack NATO countries. The visit followed new U.S. intelligence assessments suggesting Putin could try to test NATO’s resolve with a limited attack on an allied country in the coming years. U.S. officials are concerned about scenarios ranging from a cyberattack to a small-scale ground incursion, most likely involving a Baltic state. They also worry that depleted Western weapons stockpiles—after years of support for Ukraine and recent fighting involving Iran—could influence Moscow’s calculations. Source: WSJ
- Aug 24, 2026
The Guardian once dubbed me “the most prolific spreader of disinformation” on Syria. I try to follow don Miguel Ruiz’s “Don’t take anything personally.” But sometimes it helps to get outside validation for that credo: https://t.co/7E2ZmQ9Rzt
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 907 interactions against 492K followers, an engagement rate of 0.184%. Measured over 14 original posts, its engagement rate beats 78% of 3,899 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 57K times each, and 1.59% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 11.6% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 33% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 14 posts sampled, 71% carry an image or video and 36% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 3.5K interactions, about 3.8x its own typical post.
- What is Aaron Maté's engagement rate on X?
- Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) has an engagement rate of 0.184%, based on the median interactions across 14 original posts from the last 30 days against 492,338 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.184%, Aaron Maté sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,856 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 @aaronjmate have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 78% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,899 accounts), which puts it in the top 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 @aaronjmate post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.33 posts per day across the measured window.