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Chris Hayes engagement report

@chrislhayes - 2.4M followers on X

Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.053%
of 2.4M followers
Per impression
0.903%
145K views on a typical post
Reach
5.90%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.3K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.1%
144 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
6.23/day
active 103% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Friday

A typical post picks up 1.3K interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.053%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% 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 145K times each, and 0.903% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 30% carry an image or video and 44% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 117K interactions, about 93x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #nc09, #withpod.

Measured over 27 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tags: #nc09, #withpod.

Compared with accounts its own size

Chris Hayes's engagement rate beats 60% 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 45% 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 0.053%, Chris Hayes sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 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 204,694 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,880 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 15:00 UTC, and Friday 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: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 15:00 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: Friday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Friday
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 video30% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link44% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 30% 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.
  • 44% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
  • Its average post runs 363 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above 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

  • Jul 16, 202693x their median

    Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled. You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

    96K18K2.2K5372.0M viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 202686x their median

    🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer went straight to the pub after resigning as Prime Minister earlier 📸 The Sun https://t.co/i6EDho7zuy

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  • Jul 14, 202656x their median

    So this could turn out to be a World Cup final. https://t.co/McZ88kMrIJ

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  • Aug 8, 202630x their median

    “we sandboxed the agent” meanwhile the agent: https://t.co/4l1socvmIF

    35K3.4K2592371.7M viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 202629x their median

    We can now confirm that the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado’s van was not a narcotic or any other illicit substance. As his family has said all along, this was an electrolyte powder to stay hydrated working outside in the hot Texas summer. The attempt to cast a shadow over Lorenzo Salgado’s name has failed.

    32K5.6K52785540K viewsView on X
  • Sep 12, 202627x their median

    Something clearly happened with a frontier AI model that hasn't been made public and it spooked them so much that it made Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman all simultaneously agree to slow down. https://t.co/86UEd4aunW

    29K4.0K1.7K6343.8M viewsView on X
  • Jul 24, 202617x their median

    BREAKING NYT: Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states "based solely" on whether they backed Trump in the 2024 election. https://t.co/Zo5EtEW4U2

    15K6.4K5895772.4M viewsView on X
  • Oct 2, 202613x their median

    Skydance's first move: get rid of the execs who greenlit Sinners, OBAA and Weapons. The business side of this merger is going to be darkly hilarious https://t.co/bN31O57tSY https://t.co/BwiQOQ1Rfl

    14K1.8K612601.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 6, 202611x their median

    I'm so freakin sick of how Claude talks. It's not just annoying, it's infuriating. The honest evaluation: it's the precise mechanism driving my current headache. It's the load-bearing root cause of my daily stress. It's genuinely painful, and that matters.

    13K5379921961.0M viewsView on X
  • Aug 18, 20267.4x their median

    #CUBS WALK IT OFF! FINAL (10): Cubs 7, White Sox 5. https://t.co/FECmxAlNen

    8.1K1.2K177125173K 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

#nc09#withpod

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 1.3K interactions against 2.4M followers, an engagement rate of 0.053%. Measured over 27 original posts, its engagement rate beats 60% 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 145K times each, and 0.903% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 5.90% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 6.2 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on almost every day in the window. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 27 posts sampled, 30% carry an image or video and 44% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 117K interactions, about 93x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #nc09, #withpod.

What is Chris Hayes's engagement rate on X?
Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) has an engagement rate of 0.053%, based on the median interactions across 27 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,449,725 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.053%, Chris Hayes sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 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 @chrislhayes have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 60% 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 @chrislhayes post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 6.23 posts per day across the measured window.

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