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Bill Maher engagement report

@billmaher - 10M followers on X

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.057%
of 10M followers
Per impression
1.74%
331K views on a typical post
Reach
3.27%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
5.7K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.095%
315 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.2/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
03:00 UTC
Saturday

A typical post picks up 5.7K interactions against 10M followers, an engagement rate of 0.057%. Measured over 15 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 331K times each, and 1.74% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 94K interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #starttheclock, #protocols, #rtovertime.

Measured over 15 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 24, 2026. Recurring tags: #starttheclock, #protocols, #rtovertime.

Compared with accounts its own size

Bill Maher's engagement rate beats 61% 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 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 0.057%, Bill Maher sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,491 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,891 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 percentile0.677%
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 03:00 UTC, and Saturday 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: 03:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 03:00 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: Saturday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Saturday
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 video100% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link0% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length--3%-3% to -2%54K
  • 100% 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.
  • 0% 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 129 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

  • Aug 1, 202616x their median

    I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup. https://t.co/0iBVs5poXg

    78K11K3.4K1.6K6.6M viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 202612x their median

    The prevailing view of so much of the young left in America is that we’re the worst country ever, so if someone attacks us, they can’t be all bad. https://t.co/u01HsCRnv3

    52K11K2.5K1.4K6.9M viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 202611x their median

    Spain has been having a rough time. The northern part of the country is on fire, and the southern border is being overrun by migrants. So basically, it's California. https://t.co/6pgKd725oo

    56K5.3K8961721.1M viewsView on X
  • Jul 3, 20269.9x their median

    I would love to have @AOC and @ZohranKMamdani on the show, but I can't subpoena the guests. https://t.co/emoyqOCPml

    30K1.5K88387942K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20264.0x their median

    If you’re going to migrate to a country that is proudly a melting pot, you have to want to melt. https://t.co/PzZRwSXcfY

    20K2.5K554226532K viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 20267.4x their median

    https://t.co/43vIHyyMe9

    18K3.4K429190602K viewsView on X
  • Aug 15, 20262.5x their median

    AOC and her fiancé have called it quits after ten years together. But she says they can still be comrades. https://t.co/Tm4tL2fwnr

    13K94938352459K viewsView on X
  • Oct 24, 20262.3x their median

    One reason young people want socialism so much is that they're jealous that older people have it and they don't. https://t.co/CHRCZQ5xQG

    11K1.6K545138330K viewsView on X
  • Aug 8, 20261.7x their median

    Turns out, with COVID-19, the really dangerous “intimate contact” wasn’t shaking hands; it was kissing ass. https://t.co/ZgxYB9t0xz

    8.1K77596980881K viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20261.7x their median

    If you’re trying to figure out why our government is so dysfunctional and why the sensible middle never seems to win elections, stop; I’m gonna tell you: it’s because the problem isn’t just the old farts, it’s also the new little shits. https://t.co/APBDAkCBvp

    8.4K95944569385K 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

#starttheclock#protocols#rtovertime

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 5.7K interactions against 10M followers, an engagement rate of 0.057%. Measured over 15 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 331K times each, and 1.74% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.27% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.2 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Saturday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 15 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 94K interactions, about 16x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #starttheclock, #protocols, #rtovertime.

What is Bill Maher's engagement rate on X?
Bill Maher (@billmaher) has an engagement rate of 0.057%, based on the median interactions across 15 original posts from the last 30 days against 10,098,269 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.057%, Bill Maher sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,491 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 @billmaher 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 @billmaher post?
Most posts go out around 03:00 UTC, and Saturday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.2 posts per day across the measured window.

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