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Farnaz Fassihi engagement report

@farnazfassihi - 96K followers on X

Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 25, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.099%
of 96K followers
Per impression
1.02%
9.3K views on a typical post
Reach
9.69%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
94
interactions (median)
Saved
0.146%
14 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.7/day
active 60% of days
Peak time
13:00 UTC
Tuesday

A typical post picks up 94 interactions against 96K followers, an engagement rate of 0.099%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% of 3,882 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 9.3K times each, and 1.02% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 10% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.

Measured over 20 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 25, 2026. Recurring tag: #iran.

Compared with accounts its own size

Farnaz Fassihi's engagement rate beats 51% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 5 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 46% 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 0.099%, Farnaz Fassihi sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.081% to 0.439%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.439%
p902.10%
p99158.1%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,582 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 105,409 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 percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.439%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile158.1%

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 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday 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: 13:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 13:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%52K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
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%62K
09:00 UTC-3%72K
10:00 UTC-2%74K
11:00 UTC-3%81K
12:00 UTC-2%89K
13:00 UTC-2%98K
14:00 UTC-4%101K
15:00 UTC-2%104K
16:00 UTC-3%102K
17:00 UTC-3%94K
18:00 UTC-1%88K
19:00 UTC-2%83K
20:00 UTC-1%77K
21:00 UTC-1%68K
22:00 UTC-2%59K
23:00 UTC-2%53K
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: Tuesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Tuesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%237K
Monday0%300K
Tuesday-3%299K
Wednesday-1%256K
Thursday-1%249K
Friday-3%258K
Saturday+3%232K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Aug 1, 202614x their median

    NYT Visual Investigation: The U.S. dropped 2,000-pound Bomb on home in Iran, killing a mom, dad, and a two year old. Two children orphaned and injured. The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area. in Gheshm @trbrtc @sanjanamv @ckoettl https://t.co/4MRZtvGPKq

    872439034413K viewsView on X
  • Jul 28, 20262.8x their median

    Exclusive: Iran considered retaliatory strike on Ukrainian seaport. A flurry of diplomacy has eased tensions, officials said, after an incident risked triggering a wider war. w/ @julianbarnes @EricSchmittNYT https://t.co/sWxxPK5Vg4

    1598901440K viewsView on X
  • Aug 7, 20262.5x their median

    ‘I Was So Wrong’: Iranians Say Trump’s Promises Never Came True. As President Trump struggles to extricate the U.S. from the war in Iran, his promises to protesters in the country have fallen by the wayside. https://t.co/xCazAxeR95

    1505802844K viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 20262.3x their median

    Exclusive: Iran plotted a wider war with aid of its proxies during the fragile ceasefire. Iranians covertly devised a plan to raise the war’s costs for President Trump if U.S. forces attacked anew. w/ @NeilMacFarquhar https://t.co/DmjiVUa5Mv

    140690532K viewsView on X
  • Aug 4, 20262.0x their median

    A must read piece on how Iran's leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump who is struggling to understand Iran's defiant leaders. @michaelcrowley https://t.co/rFLtgam5zu

    134510736K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 20261.6x their median

    How Iran adapted its attacks as U.S. war munitions dwindled. The Iranian strikes that killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan show how quickly Iran’s war-fighting skills have evolved, as the Pentagon runs low on interceptors. @EricSchmittNYT @helenecooper https://t.co/g6ZdhTUj5U

    99460567K viewsView on X
  • Aug 1, 2026

    In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear. With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war. @StevenErlanger https://t.co/NTvS1Zyxmk

    80320453K viewsView on X
  • Aug 11, 2026

    Hossein Taeb is in the news as the new head of Basij. In April I wrote about how Taeb played a central role, pressuring and forcing the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as his father's successor, despite objections from the Beit. https://t.co/YEwUQOhRKL

    82291215K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 2026

    Trump encounters a more determined Iran as the war widens. Between Mr. Trump’s doubts and his vow to hit Iran hard, the U.S. strategy is not at all clear. @julianbarnes @helenecooper @EricSchmittNYT https://t.co/BJPkF2qISO

    81260691K viewsView on X
  • Jan 14, 2021

    Hollywood actress Shohreh Aghdashloo's response after reading my article about widespread sexual allegations against her x-husband Aydin Aghdashloo: "Thank you, more Kudos to you, and all those brave women who are finally breaking their silence." @SAghdashloo #ایدین_اغداشلو

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

#iran

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 94 interactions against 96K followers, an engagement rate of 0.099%. Measured over 20 original posts, its engagement rate beats 51% of 3,882 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 9.3K times each, and 1.02% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 9.69% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.7 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 60% of days. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 20 posts sampled, 10% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.3K interactions, about 14x its own typical post.

What is Farnaz Fassihi's engagement rate on X?
Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) has an engagement rate of 0.099%, based on the median interactions across 20 original posts from the last 30 days against 95,567 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.099%, Farnaz Fassihi sits above the 50th percentile of the 37,582 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 @farnazfassihi have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 51% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,882 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 @farnazfassihi post?
Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Tuesday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.7 posts per day across the measured window.

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