Bari Weiss engagement report
@bariweiss - 1.1M followers on X
Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 342 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.03%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 3,791 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 92K times each, and 0.372% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 106K interactions, about 309x its own typical post.
Measured over 8 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Bari Weiss's engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 26% 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 0.03%, Bari Weiss sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.08%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.434% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 160.4% |
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 01:00 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% | 51K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 54K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 61K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 70K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 79K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 87K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 95K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 98K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 101K |
| 16:00 UTC | -4% | 99K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 91K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 85K |
| 19:00 UTC | -1% | 80K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 75K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 58K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 52K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 232K |
| Monday | 0% | 290K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 281K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 252K |
| Thursday | -2% | 245K |
| Friday | -3% | 254K |
| Saturday | +3% | 228K |
Best tweets
- Aug 7, 2026309x their median
A golden retriever suffering from seizures seemingly lost her spunk — until one day her owners brought home a miracle cure — a duck named Louie. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road. https://t.co/6ZfnURuTvr
- Jun 15, 202676x their median
I couldn't be happier to welcome the singular @DouglasKMurray to @TheFP as a weekly columnist. https://t.co/RREFtqoOjw
- Oct 6, 202543x their median
From day one, the promise—and the business proposition—of @TheFP was simple: We would marry the quality of the old world to the freedom of the new. We would seek the truth and tell it plainly. And we would treat readers like adults capable of making their own choices. So many people told us this was no longer possible. That the premise of a media company built on trust rather than partisanship was, at best, a relic from the past—and, at worst, a fantasy that never was. That the internet killed journalism. That there simply weren’t enough Americans out there in search of media driven by honesty, independence, and integrity. Our readers proved them wrong. Our subscribers demonstrated that there’s a market for honest journalism. And they’ve given us a mandate to pursue that mission from an even bigger platform. https://t.co/lYheA8ePl2
- Jul 4, 202640x their median
Kyiv tonight https://t.co/OqvgFoPPsc
- Jun 26, 202621x their median
Twenty-five years ago, Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia, arguably the most important encyclopedia in human history. This week, he was banned from the site. The story of how and why is an emblem of our time. Read @lsanger in @TheFP: https://t.co/qGgWPTPOGn
- Jun 26, 20265.2x their median
My dad died today. Thanks to @TheFP for letting me write this for him. Dad — I'll see you in a flash. https://t.co/weWYd6hEY0
- Aug 27, 20262.0x their median
The Cauldron is out now. It is almost killed me to write it. It was both the most satisfying and most challenging book i have written. A work of love but also a trial by fire. It is written to inform but also to entertain. Do enjoy. There have already been some reviews. https://t.co/GIvpVnbTug
- Aug 30, 2026
Five years ago today, the last U.S. soldier left Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and leaving the country under Taliban control. @margbrennan spoke with former Afghan Gen. Haibatullah Alizai, who led a last-ditch effort to stop the Taliban from sweeping control of the country. He reflected on the bond between Afghans and the U.S. “We have shared blood together for 20 years,” he said. “Whatever happened, still, this is the right side. I have some hope.”
- Aug 24, 2026
Forget Yourself It's an honor to stand here and welcome the third class at UATX, the most exciting university in America. To the freshman: thank you for choosing us. I know you had options, and you picked our ambitious experiment. In return, we can promise you that we will stop at nothing to help you become worthy of great things. *** In the 1830s, the French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville traveled across America and admired much of what he saw. But he observed a dangerous paradox in the American love of equality. As the old ties of class, tradition, and community dissolved, he predicted, each citizen would retreat into a small world of narrow concerns — until every American would end up "thrown back forever upon himself alone," confined at last "in the solitude of his own heart." A man with nothing above or beyond him has nothing important to strive for and becomes focused on himself alone. Tocqueville called this danger individualism. Paradoxically, he worried that the more independent the citizen feels, the weaker and less independent he actually becomes. And weak men are more susceptible to being governed by others. They are dominated by the ideas and fashions of the majority and look to a government bureaucracy to take care of them. Tocqueville saw this individualism as a path to comfort in servitude. America's version of individualism led to something quite different. The pilgrims and pioneers were the most self-reliant people on earth. They persisted against nature and starvation to set up the colonies; they headed West on wagon trains even as they buried their children on the Oregon Trail. They formed volunteer fire brigades before any government services existed. They ran their own towns without deferring to a distant capital. They carved farms and opened shops and built railroads. They turned wilderness into civilization. Their grandchildren stormed the beaches at Normandy, and their great-grandsons walked on the moon. That kind of relentless pursuit of greatness was self-uninvolved. It was strong and persistent, and the opposite of introspective. America's self-reliance and rugged individualism produced achievements that were only possible because we escaped the old aristocratic order and its unmeritocratic privileges of birth. These great achievements begin, however, with the recognition that there's something greater beyond us, that much of life's meaning comes from duties imposed on us and loyalties we did not choose. To strive beyond ourselves we first need to understand ourselves, and that means fully understanding our inheritances before we presume to improve or criticize them. Greatness starts with recognizing that we incurred a debt to the past, to the family that raised us, to the founders of our country, to the dead who built everything around us and fought our enemies so that we can live in freedom and prosperity. Greatness starts with the recognition of virtue. For most of Western history, the highest compliment you could pay someone was to call them virtuous. A virtuous father was devoted to his children. A virtuous friend was loyal even when it was costly. But over the last century, virtue gave way to authenticity — being true to whatever feels right. Today's young people are the most self-aware, validated and as Tocqueville warned us, individualistic. A free and enterprising America became the richest society in human history. And yet, your generation is the most anxious, fragile, and lonely. American capitalism succeeded in producing unprecedented wealth and opportunity not by rewarding self-obsession. But instead, rewarding the founder obsessed with a product, the engineer obsessed with a problem, a doctor obsessed with getting his patient healthy. It's two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio taking their shop profits and betting on a wind tunnel in the back of the store. It's an immigrant entrepreneur taking his profits from an internet company and betting it on a rocket to take us to Mars. Short of the military, our universities are the institutions best positioned to cultivate a free and virtuous citizen. Instead, they've become sanctuaries for the authentic self. Having lost the confidence to distinguish between good and bad, universities pretend that all ideas are equal and promise a curriculum to "reflect" your interests. They've traded the question of "what is true and good?" for the question "how does this make you feel?" Universities keep offering a self-affirming mirror when what you need is a window. But not at UATX. You are here because you are the tiny minority in our country that wants something different. A place that hands you books chosen for you, where you will sit next to people not selected for "fit" but for raw intellect, a place that asks you to defend your opinions, and holds everyone to the highest standards. You are here because you want a real education that humbles you without humiliating you, that challenges you without flattering you. You are going to live together, eat together, argue together. And, as you share the labor of maintaining a community, we trust you'll pass down to the class behind you what the class ahead passed on to you. Freshman, look around. You are sitting near a classmate you don't yet know who will argue with you until late at night. They will be the friends standing by you at your wedding. In this room is a professor who will pour red ink on the margins of your essay. That professor will be the mentor you call when deciding what new job offer to take a decade from now. So, to the class of 2030, the whole world will keep telling you to find yourself. We're hoping for something better: that you forget yourself and discover the durable joy of being absorbed in something greater than you. Years from now, you'll be in a room where something serious is on the line. Maybe a dinner table where a troubling question gets asked, or a courthouse where a big decision is made, or a board meeting where a serious mistake is about to be made. Those rooms will need at least one person who knows how to think through hard things. We want you to be the person the rest of the room quietly turns to. But today, we turn to you and ask you to forget yourself. We want you to read books that have no interest in your identity, and to wrestle with facts that don't care how they make you feel. We want you to help your classmate at an inconvenient hour, to listen and learn from the professors, and to find ways to contribute to this young university without demanding that it conforms to you. Forget yourself and find something greater than you. Forget yourself today, then wake up tomorrow and forget yourself again. Spend four years doing that, and you will cross this stage in 2030 strong, free, surrounded by friends who will help you build a good, virtuous and successful life. Welcome to the University of Austin. — UATX President Carlos Carvalho’s Convocation Address (August 23, 2026)
- Jul 28, 2026
NEWS: CBS News is announcing a new spate of hires, including Ross Douthat from The New York Times. Notes from Nick Bilton and NYT Opinion Editor Katie Kingsbury https://t.co/SKHEiSCXXH
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 342 interactions against 1.1M followers, an engagement rate of 0.03%. Measured over 8 original posts, its engagement rate beats 52% of 3,791 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 92K times each, and 0.372% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 8.20% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.5 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 8 posts sampled, 50% carry an image or video and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 106K interactions, about 309x its own typical post.
- What is Bari Weiss's engagement rate on X?
- Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) has an engagement rate of 0.03%, based on the median interactions across 8 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,122,622 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.03%, Bari Weiss sits above the 25th percentile of the 36,759 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 @bariweiss have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 52% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,791 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 @bariweiss post?
- Most posts go out around 01:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.53 posts per day across the measured window.