Farnaz Fassihi engagement report
@farnazfassihi - 96K followers on X
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 16, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 23 interactions against 96K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% 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 3.1K times each, and 0.734% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.28% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 6% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 98x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #iran, #neverforget, #neverforgetnyc.
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 16, 2026. Recurring tags: #iran, #neverforget, #neverforgetnyc.
Compared with accounts its own size
Farnaz Fassihi's engagement rate beats 28% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 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 33% 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 0.024%, Farnaz Fassihi sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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 16:00 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.
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 | 0% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 100% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 0% 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.
- 100% 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 222 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
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 6, 202198x their median
Journalists around the globe, particularly women and journalists of color, are being targeted for the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society. They should be free to work without harassment. https://t.co/Xteomnbvtm
- Aug 1, 202658x 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
- Jul 28, 202611x 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
- Aug 7, 202610x 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
- Aug 1, 20269.3x 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
- Sep 14, 20269.2x their median
A thread of my stories on the inner workings of Iran's leadership, planning for war and factional divisions. Inside Iran’s Preparations for War and Plans for Survival https://t.co/Pr7IcD1EZ4
- Aug 4, 20268.3x 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
- Sep 7, 20267.9x their median
If you lived in NYC in before times, the twin towers were your compass, ever looming, ever present, ever pointing the way north, south, east, west. Keith Meyers photography: https://t.co/NBjXbrs3D5
- Aug 11, 20266.5x 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
- Aug 1, 20265.0x their median
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
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 23 interactions against 96K followers, an engagement rate of 0.024%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 28% 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 3.1K times each, and 0.734% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.28% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 2.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 63% of days. Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 6% are part of a thread and 100% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.3K interactions, about 98x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #iran, #neverforget, #neverforgetnyc.
- What is Farnaz Fassihi's engagement rate on X?
- Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) has an engagement rate of 0.024%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 95,640 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.024%, Farnaz Fassihi sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,956 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 28% 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 @farnazfassihi post?
- Most posts go out around 16:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 2.13 posts per day across the measured window.