EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check engagement report
@emptywheel - 295K followers on X
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 20, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 786 interactions against 295K followers, an engagement rate of 0.267%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 20,183 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 28K times each, and 2.82% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 42K interactions, about 54x its own typical post.
Measured over 18 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 20, 2026. Recurring tag: #gapol.
Compared with accounts its own size
EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check's engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 73% 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 0.267%, EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check sits above the 50th percentile of the 202,566 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.142% to 0.673%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.142% |
| 75th percentile | 0.673% |
| 90th percentile | 2.54% |
| 99th percentile | 82.6% |
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 18:00 UTC, and Monday 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 | 56% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 33% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 56% 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.
- 33% 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 380 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
- Sep 18, 202654x their median
So, the White House Press Corps wants to talk about censorship. Great! Let's have that conversation. How many times have the networks and cable channels refused to broadcast President Trump's speeches?
- Sep 18, 202622x their median
hahahahahahahahaahahh https://t.co/vj8pZLECiG
- Sep 18, 202621x their median
ITS HAPPENING https://t.co/HonEoWs9y6
- Oct 19, 202617x their median
Did you know that @RoKhanna (worth over 100 million), who supports the revolution in France, evades taxes via three golf clubs owned by his minor children in Ohio? A true man of the people! https://t.co/0GGh3kqYlX
- Sep 19, 202613x their median
.@StephenM: Democrats' policies aren't just wrong; their policies are evil. You cannot sit on the sidelines when we are trying to save this country from an agenda that is sinister and wicked and morally indefensible. 💯 https://t.co/xsX0XpsITH
- Oct 19, 202612x their median
I had to read this twice to make sure of a cringeworthy fact; this Washington Post story on the el-Sayed exchange w “Tommy“ does not even mention that Tommy is a paid right wing political operative, a staffer for Josh Hawley. Journalistic malpractice. https://t.co/oRSer08FeL
- Oct 19, 202610x their median
THIS MORNING IN CA: Acting Deputy Attorney General @PADAGMcCotter announces charges against 28 Foreign Nationals in California for election crimes. "Today's charges demonstrate why that lawsuit [against CA over its voter rolls] is so important. The lawsuit is about preventing voter fraud that cancels out the votes of U.S. citizens. Enforcing federal law increases the integrity of elections — it increases confidence in elections."
- Sep 3, 20269.2x their median
Just landed in San Diego for a speech. Meanwhile, all of DOJ including @CivilRights has been making news, filing briefs, winning cases, indicting and arresting. What an amazing team!
- Oct 19, 20268.5x their median
This man, @mrddmia, who is suggesting I be shot, was in the mix to be President Trump's next Attorney General after he fired Pam Bondi for not prosecuting more of his political opponents. He is now at a MAGA dark money group, mobilizing death threats against me and my staff for sport. This shouldn’t be controversial: if you aid in stealing taxpayer money or directing it to enrich President Trump or his family, then you should be held accountable for that crime. That’s what I said, and I stand by it. And if you use the justice system for frivolous lawsuits used to intimidate and jail your political opponents, you should be held accountable for that via your bar status. No abuse of power and not violating the law? Then we have no problem. We know most Republican politicians are desperate to change the topic from their failing agenda. That’s how this kind of coordinated right-wing media play works. The threats and intimidation — of me, my staff, and my family — *are the point* of this kind of play. This dude and so many others are just hoping that we'll shut up in response. Not going to happen.
- Sep 4, 20267.6x their median
NEW: DC prosecutors say Students for Trump leader Ryan Fournier told his girlfriend 'you're going to die tonight' with a switchblade at his side and threatened to have another woman killed if she wouldn't lie for him. They've also filed a photo of him pointing a gun at an ex. He's currently in jail but his X account is still posting. https://t.co/IkvrSXVsEj
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
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 786 interactions against 295K followers, an engagement rate of 0.267%. Measured over 18 original posts, its engagement rate beats 76% of 20,183 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 28K times each, and 2.82% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.49% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.4 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 7% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 18 posts sampled, 56% carry an image or video, 6% are part of a thread and 33% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 42K interactions, about 54x its own typical post.
- What is EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check's engagement rate on X?
- EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check (@emptywheel) has an engagement rate of 0.267%, based on the median interactions across 18 original posts from the last 30 days against 294,508 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.267%, EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check sits above the 50th percentile of the 202,566 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 @emptywheel have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 76% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,183 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 @emptywheel post?
- Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.37 posts per day across the measured window.