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Yuval Noah Harari engagement report

@harari_yuval - 664K followers on X

Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.11%
of 664K followers
Per impression
2.31%
32K views on a typical post
Reach
4.77%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
729
interactions (median)
Saved
0.222%
70 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
0.37/day
active 23% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Monday

Early reading. We have captured 5 original posts for this account, below the 8 we require before treating a median as settled. The numbers above describe what we have seen so far, not a finished profile of the account.

A typical post picks up 729 interactions against 664K followers, an engagement rate of 0.11%. Posts are seen about 32K times each, and 2.31% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 20% are part of a thread and 60% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 3.9x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

Measured over 5 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 4, 2026.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.11%, Yuval Noah Harari 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 15:00 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.

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: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
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 link60% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-+15%+14% to +16%32K
  • 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.
  • 60% 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 395 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 17, 20263.9x their median

    The Bible has no descriptions of Jesus’ appearance, yet his face is the most replicated and recognizable image in the world. What does that tell us about the nature of information? Watch the whole @BigThink interview: https://t.co/4mlCx8pZcV https://t.co/ZxrK0oh8gf

    2.2K47611645200K viewsView on X
  • Jun 8, 20263.0x their median

    Last week, Argentina’s President Milei announced a new legal category for non-human corporations – companies run by #AI agents or robots. Like traditional corporations, they would be granted legal personhood. This could generate enormous new wealth, but very worryingly, it would also hand AIs an all-purpose key that grants access to our financial, economic and political systems. Full op-ed in today's @FT: https://t.co/w6DzOwByiq

    1.6K622209149800K viewsView on X
  • Jun 24, 20262.8x their median

    Yesterday I had the privilege of attending Marc Bloch's reburial ceremony at the Panthéon – Paris' monument to the most outstanding citizens of France. Bloch was honored not only as one of the greatest French historians, but also as a man who chose resistance over safety when his country fell into darkness. Bloch fought in two World Wars, and received multiple awards for bravery. By the time the pro-Nazi Vichy regime came to power in 1940, Bloch was already recognized as perhaps the preeminent historian of medieval France. He continued to teach history, and during that time wrote 'Strange Defeat', a book explaining the French defeat in 1940, and 'The Historian’s Craft', a meditation on history and historiography. Bloch also joined the Résistance and became one of its leaders. On March 8, 1944 Bloch was captured during a crackdown on the Résistance by the Nazis and their French collaborators. At the time, collaborationist French newspapers celebrated Bloch’s capture. They highlighted his Jewish identity, and referred to the historian as a traitor to France, describing the Résistance as a Jewish-Bolshevik terrorist organization. Bloch was imprisoned and tortured at the Gestapo headquarters in Lyon, and was executed on June 16, 1944, ten days after the Allied landing in Normandy. I am a medievalist by training, and have been deeply influenced by Bloch. What moved me most about Bloch is his uncompromising commitment to truth. For him, history was never nostalgia or mythmaking, but a discipline of honesty – a way of resisting propaganda, prejudice, and the comfort of convenient fictions. For Bloch, truth was not just an intellectual position, but a spiritual practice. Anticipating his death at the hands of the Gestapo and the Vichy regime, the Jewish historian and freedom fighter left behind detailed instructions for his burial. He wrote: “I have not asked to have read above my body those Jewish prayers to the cadence of which so many of my ancestors, including my father, were laid to rest. All my life I have striven to achieve complete sincerity in word and thought. I hold that any compromise with untruth, no matter what the pretext, is the mark of a human soul’s ultimate corruption. […] That is why I find it impossible, at this moment of my last farewell, when, if ever, a man should be true to himself, to authorize any use of those formulae of an orthodoxy to the beliefs of which I have ever refused to subscribe. But I should hate to think that anyone might read into this statement of personal integrity even the remotest approximation to a coward’s denial. I am prepared, therefore, if necessary, to affirm here, in the face of death, that I was born a Jew: that I have never denied it, nor ever been tempted to do so. […] A stranger to all credal dogmas, as to all pretended community of life and spirit based on race, I have, through life, felt that I was above all, and quite simply, a Frenchman. A family tradition, already of long date, has bound me firmly to my country. I have found nourishment in her spiritual heritage and in her history. I can, indeed, think of no other land whose air I could have breathed with such a sense of ease and freedom. I have loved her greatly, and served her with all my strength. I have never found that the fact of being a Jew has at all hindered these sentiments. Though I have fought in two wars, it has not fallen to my lot to die for France. But I can, at least, in all sincerity, declare that I die now, as I have lived, a good Frenchman.” By his request, a Latin epitaph was carved on Bloch’s grave: dilexi veritatem (“I have loved the truth”). Watching Bloch's memory honored at the Panthéon yesterday did not feel like a tribute to the past as much as a challenge to the present. As dark clouds gather once again, how many of us today can demonstrate Bloch's level of integrity and fearlessness?

    1.7K6156166140K viewsView on X
  • Jun 7, 20262.5x their median

    We simply do not know what will be required by the job market in the coming decades. What matters most is the capacity to remain flexible, and to have a wide range of skills – intellectual, physical and social. https://t.co/6FtKwGYkWv

    1.6K4319239192K viewsView on X
  • Sep 7, 20262.6x their median

    Social media is designed to maximize one thing: engagement. The thing that drives engagement best is anger and fear – we simply cannot look away. What happens when the very technology that allows us to have large-scale public conversations and allows democracy to flourish turns us against each other?

    1.3K446846368K viewsView on X
  • Jul 13, 20262.0x their median

    When we stop force-feeding our minds, we have the opportunity to digest and detoxify. We should also be careful about the quality of information we consume. A bad diet is bad for you in more ways than one. https://t.co/BHQmVl3Qqw

    1.1K275562456K viewsView on X
  • Aug 14, 20261.9x their median

    We don't know if the repercussions of AI will be good or bad, but we do know disruption will happen, and we know that it will happen much faster than in previous generations. The important thing isn't to panic or be frightened, but to understand the magnitude of the change we are facing.

    1.0K2419835150K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20261.9x their median

    The truth is complicated, difficult and not always flattering: but the truth is essential. Without the truth we can never improve ourselves or our societies. From a July 2026 event with Tom Parker, host of The Next Five, the Financial Times’ podcast on business. Watch the whole conversation: https://t.co/pozCJOvWEp

    1.0K242463866K viewsView on X
  • Aug 16, 20261.9x their median

    Social media engages us with hate, greed, anger and fear. So what happens when we create an information ecosystem that constantly makes us feel angry and afraid? From the @nytopinion podcast with @ezraklein. Watch the whole episode: https://t.co/iBQpCgUXYg https://t.co/XsgMqtn1Gb

    994274603061K viewsView on X
  • Jul 20, 20261.7x their median

    Just as food nourishes the body, information nourishes the mind. And just as you should avoid eating too much junk food, you should also avoid consuming too much unhealthy information. https://t.co/AI12qgZFwg

    935252321838K 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.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 729 interactions against 664K followers, an engagement rate of 0.11%. Posts are seen about 32K times each, and 2.31% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.76% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.37 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 23% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 5 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 20% are part of a thread and 60% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 2.8K interactions, about 3.9x its own typical post. Only 5 original posts have been captured so far, fewer than the 8 posts we want behind a median before treating it as settled. Read the figures above as an early measurement of this account, not as a finished profile of it.

What is Yuval Noah Harari's engagement rate on X?
Yuval Noah Harari (@harari_yuval) has an engagement rate of 0.11%, based on the median interactions across 5 original posts from the last 30 days against 663,846 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.11%, Yuval Noah Harari 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 @harari_yuval have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @harari_yuval post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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